Posted on 07/02/2008 6:59:59 PM PDT by george76
A defiant President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on Tuesday fended off an effort by African leaders to sanction him for his country's recent election violence, telling them that their claims to power were no more legitimate than his.
President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal said Mugabe chastised another head of state during a closed-door session Tuesday night for having "worse elections than I did."
A two-day summit of the 53-nation African Union that was dominated by talk of Zimbabwe's political crisis ended with leaders issuing no public rebuke.
Instead, African leaders encouraged Mugabe to enter into dialogue and form a power-sharing government with Zimbabwe's opposition. After intense Western pressure to do more against Mugabe, the leaders failed to hold a planned news conference and left without speaking to reporters.
African leaders traditionally have avoided public criticism of one another's internal affairs, out of reluctance to see their own records on rights and governance scrutinized.
This was the African leaders' "moment of truth," ...
A lot of people did not dare speak out because they were afraid they would have Mr. Mugabe's harsh response."
"Mugabe let people know he is not the worst-elected head of state,"
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
He does have a point there..LOL
Waiting for the UN to act and Jimmy to say something.
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Jimmy’s fingerprints are already on this deal...
I hate to even think of how much money, sent direct and through the UN, we waste on these people.
Beat me to it.
He does indeed have a point.
Now there is something to hang your hat on.
Yep there’s something for Mugabe to talk about. Many African countries are in the toilet, and other leaders have been worse than him.
Is this a case of the pot calling the kettle black? No wait...
not really
No one has taken something so good and made it so horrible
Other states had far less to begin with.
Mugabe premised himself as a human rights activists which others did not.
Yes, but they've got to start somewhere. Colonialism is long over. The cold war, where either side would overlook various sins for expediency, is over.
Now we have the internet, instant communications, and a vast population that is used to seeing peaceful democratic principles, but only in other countries. Time's up, Africa.
Because you’re a human being, and not a cynical political narcissist who cares about nothing but power?
Those African despots stick together. They have the integrity of a glob of spit.
Robert Mugabe is obviously an uncle tom, because he is opposed to homosexuality, and everyone knows that only racist rednecks and their toadies are opposed to homosexuality. We need to send Jackson and Sharpton over there to see to it that the Black man’s natural sympathy for oppressed “gays” prevails in the Sacred Mother Land.
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