[MadIvan]

It's clear Mugabe has gone around the bend. One well directed laser-guided bomb will end this nonsense.

Regards, Ivan

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[MadIvan]

Bump!

[twntaipan]

I think Mr. Mugabe's syphalis has gone to his brain.

[litehaus]

Wana take a guess how long B4 South Africa announces likewise?

[Cicero]

Mugabe was a Maoist to start with, when he staged his revolt. For some reason I've never seen explained, he behaved himself years. Then suddenly he started behaving like a Maoist again.

[Tacis]

Mugabe will do anything to prove the blessings of colonialism.

[Mike Darancette]

Mr Mugabe said that the Government could “acquire” service stations and storage facilities, compensate the companies to which they belonged and dispense the fuel.

I see Mugabe wants to now work his magic on the energy industry after doing so well in agriculture.

Who will run the service stations, veterans or his relatives?

[toddst]

It's clear Mugabe has gone around the bend. One well directed laser-guided bomb will end this nonsense.

Now that Mugabe is messing with oil companies, not just farmers, the chance of his being targeted goes way up. Hope this situation is taken care of soon - by someone.

[The Electrician]

We seem to be watching Atlas Shrugged played out in real time (or, is it the Fountainhead? Haven't read them in a long time, too long).

[Verginius Rufus]

Telling Mugabe his idea is "unconstitutional" is supposed to stop him? It will have as much impact as Candide telling the South American cannibals that eating people is unchristian.

[muawiyah]

Better that they walk off from those assets as fast as they can before Mugabe has them over for dinner!

[redbaiter]

I don't see any compelling US interest. No reason for us US to take on the risk & expense of disposing of this nutjob. But what if the oil companies raised an army themselves? Just a thought.

[NonValueAdded]

However, industry executives said that Noczim’s enormous losses were a result of price controls that forced it to sell fuel at the equivalent of about 3p per litre while buying it for about ten times that price.

I guess the California energy model doesn't work for them either.

[Sparta]

Bring back Rhodesia NOW!!!!!

[hove]

How is it that guys like Saddam, Mugabe, and Arafat are still alive?

[headsonpikes]

Tut-tut...you're merely a prisoner of British colonial racism, Ivan, old chap.

Our Robert's probably going to be scooping up the Nobel Peace Prize, or some such hardware, during the next decade.

Maybe the Pol Pot Humanitarian Award.

[NEPA]

Lawyers said that such a move would be illegal. One lawyer, who did not wish to be identified, said: “It would be patently unconstitutional.

Probably true but within the last year or so he packed the Supreme Court (or whatever its called over there) with loyalists so the Constitution no longer matters.

(BTW, FDR tried the same court packing scheme here but fortunately failed.)

[VOYAGER]

“Mugabe’s thinking is that taps make water,” a Western diplomat said. “If he goes ahead (with the takeover of multinational service stations), the country will dry up far quicker than it is doing already.”

Are these poor slaves, to their own government, better off than they were before they ran "old honky" out and nationalized?

Of course not but how could they know that a hot stove will not burn their fingers if they don't touch it.

But like the extreme left liberal Dems of this nation, some people will not learn a better way which is "get your head out of your butt" and watch where you're going.

[Myrddin]

The oil companies should just stop delivering product to their stations if Mugabe takes them over. Withold product until Mugabe assumes room temperature. There is plenty of market in the U.S. for what isn't delivered to Zimbabwe. Especially with the current Venuzuelan activity.

[hchutch]

Heck, if I were the CEO of Shell or Mobil, and if MY assets were seized, thereby harming MY company and employees, I'd be thumbing through the Yellow Pages to find Assassins 'R' Us.

Question: What sort of trouble would a CEO who began such a search land in?

[Karsus]

Just wait till China does something like this to all the assets that US companies are putting in over there.