Mugabe: Corn to Blame for Zimbabwe Famine

ap on Yahoo ^ | 9/17/05 | Michelle Faul - ap

[NormsRevenge]

Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, talks during an interview at the United Nations Friday, Sept. 16, 2005. (AP Photo/Ed Betz)

[chet_in_ny]

I thought I heard that Halibuton, under direct orders of Karl Rove, was developing a corn crop virus. I guess this confirms it.

[NormsRevenge]

Now, he said, his government will take a stake in private mining enterprises to ensure Zimbabweans benefit from their natural resources. He said he expects companies mining there, including the multinational Anglo American, to understand that desire.

"What we intend to do is for the state to have a stake in the production of some of our minerals — gold, platinum, diamonds," he said. "We just want to be partners. We are not doing anything unusual, and this is the practice in many countries." Zimbabwe also mines coal, chromium ore, asbestos, nickel, copper, iron ore, vanadium, lithium and tin.

[NormsRevenge]

Now, do I look like a thug and a despot to you?

Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, talks during an interview at the United Nations Friday, Sept. 16, 2005. (AP Photo/Ed Betz)

[Sometimes A River]

Chavez, Castro and Mugabe...all heroes to the lefties (although none would ever choose to live in any of their countries).

[billorites]

Leave me out of this!

[billorites]

Mugabe, oh oh
Mugabe, oh oh oh oh
Nel blu, dipinto di blu,
felice di stare lassu...

[satchmodog9]

Cornholio.

[BlackVeil]

That bit about the mineral resources is unbelievable. It is like a will to destruction.

And yet, I saw an article in The Guardian a few years back, by an African writer praising the land seizures and predicting a bright future. Some people never learn.

[claudiustg]

So, the people must be forbidden from growing or possessing corn to break their dangerous dependency. You can't be too careful.

[copwife]

I thought it was Bush's fault !

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

UNITED NATIONS - The African leader some call a hero and others a destructive despot suggests people in his country aren't hungry, they just can't eat their favorite food.

This garbage is from the AP? "The African leader some call a hero and others a destructive despot"???? Who is calling Mugabe a hero, how many of them are they, and who cares? The writer is simply trying to bury the fact that Mugabe is a monster, by pretending this is mitigated somehow because "some" people, unnamed, consider him a "hero" for reasons unspecified.

Let's try this kind of mealy-mouthed obfuscation on a similar, but bigger, historical example: "Stalin, the Soviet leader some call a hero and others a destructive despot suggests people in his country aren't hungry, they just can't eat their favorite food. 'Let the Ukrainians and Kulaks eat grass or tree bark' opined the Soviet leader, hero of the Russian Revolution and Civil War."

[mrexitement]

Mr. Mugabe changed his name to corn? When did he do that?

[metmom]

81! Why won't these despots die?!?! Are they just too mean to die or what? Maybe the Devil doesn't even want them.

[metmom]

Wasn't Stalin the one who tried to grow corn in the Ukraine, instead of wheat like usual, and the crop failed for some reason and millions of people died in the resulting famine?

[Lurker]

Now there's a forehead just begging to have a hole in it.

L

[JasonC]

Enough it more than enough. He is a senile demented idiot in deep denial.

[Rocky]

Sounds like Marie Antoinette just before the guillotine fell. "Let them eat cake."

[JasonC]

It raises the question, why can't politicians ever just get over themselves and leave things alone? 20 years ago Zimbabwe was doing fine. 10 years ago Venezuela was doing fine. 30 years ago Iran was doing fine. But no, they must always shovel people around like concrete and wreck everything they touch. The more they wreck, the more they sling their slanders around to avoiding facing the fact, pitting people against each other and wrecking still more. All to save their precious self-importance. They are all worm food in the end anyway, it is not like it ever does anything for them.