Posted on 10/17/2005 7:49:44 AM PDT by aculeus
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has drawn applause for a speech denouncing Britain's Tony Blair and US President George Bush at a UN event in Rome.
Mr Mugabe described the leaders as "unholy men" at talks on food policy.
The US accuses Mr Mugabe of starving his people and has said his presence at the food summit is "disheartening".
Mr Mugabe defended his land reforms that have seen thousands of farmers evicted and said rich nations' farm subsidies were "crippling" the poor.
The Rome conference is being held to mark the 60th anniversary of the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO).
Though officially banned from travelling to EU countries, Mr Mugabe is allowed to visit them when on UN business.
The US ambassador to the FAO, Tony Hall, said he was amazed the organisation had invited a leader "who has done so much to hurt his own people".
"Food has been used as a weapon," Mr Hall said.
Zimbabwe is struggling to feed an estimated 3.8 million people in the rural areas, and has to import at least 37,000 tons of maize a week.
'Colonial injustices'
Mr Mugabe used his speech to lambast President Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose governments have been among his severest critics.
"Must we allow these men, the two unholy men of our millennium, who in the same way as Hitler and Mussolini formed [an] unholy alliance, form an alliance to attack an innocent country?" asked Mr Mugabe, apparently referring to Iraq.
"The voice of Mr Bush and the voice of Mr Blair can't decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in Venezuela, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq," he said.
Mr Mugabe said his land reforms, which enabled the government to seize hundreds of farms owned mostly by white Zimbabweans, had been part of a process to correct colonial injustices.
He blamed agricultural subsidies offered to farm produce from developed countries for crippling "the development of agriculture in developing countries".
Delegates applauded Mr Mugabe at the end of his speech.
Published: 2005/10/17 13:08:06 GMT
© BBC MMV
I find it's usually the case that the Devil is almost always the first to stand and accuse someone else of being unholy.
This is high praise coming from this hateful criminal.
Here is my long term solution for the UN. Send them lock stock and barrel to Haiti so they can straighten that place out. If the UN can fix Haiti then the can try to go fix other places in the world. Let's start in this Hemisphere first.
I hope this gets plenty of press in our papers in the US so that even the ignorant can figure out that we need to get the h*ll out of the UN
Lefties love this guy.
Maybe but this BBC article doesn't help him ... or the UN.
If it is true that much can be determined by who your friends and enemies are we should be proud...and the UN should be worried.
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe speaks during a hunger conference to mark the 60th anniversary of the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation at Rome's FAO headquarters. Mugabe of Zimbabwe denounced US President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair as 'the two unholy men of our millennium' in a speech to the UN Food Agency in Rome.(AFP/Giulio Napolitano)
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez (L) embraces Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe during the 60th anniversary celebrations of the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome October 17, 2005. Mugabe denounced U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair as 'unholy men' on Monday, comparing them to fascist leaders trying to dominate the world. Mugabe said the U.S. and Britain had illegally invaded Iraq and were looking to change governments in other countries. REUTERS/Tony Gentile
I read on another FR post that Mugabe comandeered a commercial plane to make this trip to Rome. The planes destination was England.Uh, in the real world isn't this a hijacking?Then the airline was unable to pay for a refueling.
Perhaps the airline will drop Mugabe out of the back door aka the " D. B.Cooper exit" at some 30,000 feet?
Everytime I hear of a Third World sandbox dictator shooting their mouth off at a UN-sponsored event, I ask myself
"WHY THE F*** DO WE CONTINUE TO FUND THIS ORGANIZATION?!"
It's fairly obvious to anyone with a brain that Zimbabwe's problems have been exclusively caused by Zimbabwe's leadership.
Mugabe is a hypocrite - especially with his comment about "...state muscle being used in order to intimidate us."
Zimbabwe is classic example of state muscle being used to kill, starve and torture their own people.
Mugabe cannot die soon enough. And I hope it will be in a most painful and prolonged manner.
Right out of the Clinton playbook.
That scumbag dares to talk about Hitler and Mussolini. Mugabe and Chavez need to be stopped before their tyrannies
go into the Hitler and Mussolini Hall of Fame.
This is what happens when a guy like Farrakhan runs a country.
The UN would close down the first day I became President. NYorkers would get their parking spaces back.
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