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Robert Mugabe asked to be new UN envoy for tourism
guardian.co.uk ^ | 5/29/12 | David Smith

Posted on 05/29/2012 10:28:33 AM PDT by ColdOne

With a line-up that includes Drew Barrymore, David Beckham, Orlando Bloom, and Ricky Martin, the UN's choice of ambassadors has been known to cause raised eyebrows or the odd smirk.

Seldom, however, has there been such anger, or questioning of the organisation's credibility, as that greeting the appointment of a new international envoy for tourism: Robert Mugabe.

Improbable as it seems, the Zimbabwean president, who is widely accused of ethnic cleansing, rigging elections, terrorising opposition, controlling media and presiding over a collapsed economy, has been endorsed as a champion of efforts to boost global holidaymaking.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mugabe; tourism; un; zimbabwe
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To: Dick Bachert

Tourism? I thought Mugabe’s expertise was in Economics and Agricultural Development.


21 posted on 05/29/2012 11:27:47 AM PDT by Brownie63
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To: ColdOne

A sick joke!!


22 posted on 05/29/2012 11:30:24 AM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: ZULU

“You would just have to tell him whose liver!!”

That was the story about his dining habits.


23 posted on 05/29/2012 11:35:46 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: ColdOne
OK, this has GOT to be satire.

US out of the UN
UN out of the US

24 posted on 05/29/2012 12:15:21 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Elizabeth Warren, 1st Cherokee on the Mayflower?)
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To: ColdOne
I'm reminded of previous tourism efforts:


25 posted on 05/29/2012 12:30:46 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: ColdOne
Good ol' Bobby might have misheard and thought he was getting the terrorism gig...
26 posted on 05/29/2012 12:47:02 PM PDT by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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To: ColdOne
Robert Mugabe for Tourism??

Hi I am Robert Mugabe, I have in my hand an AK-47, so VISIT my CORRUPT COUNTRY of Zimbabwe. If you don't, I'll shoot you.

If you visit my country, you'll see what 4 more years of Obama can do to yours. Visit Zimbabwe, I DEMAND you...

27 posted on 05/29/2012 1:36:48 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (If we stay home in November '12, don't blame 0 for tearing up the CONSTITUTION!!)
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To: NonValueAdded
We already know that this kind of stuff is de rigueur for the so-called UN. The abomination should never have been set up post-WWII.
28 posted on 05/29/2012 9:25:30 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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