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Carter, Annan, others refused entry to Zimbabwe
Associated Press ^ | November 22nd, 2008 | CELEAN JACOBSON,

Posted on 11/22/2008 7:30:50 AM PST by george76

Zimbabwe has refused to let Kofi Annan and two eminent colleagues visit the impoverished African country for a humanitarian mission, the three said Saturday.

The former U.N. secretary-general, ex-U.S. President Jimmy Carter and rights advocate Graca Machel had planned to assess the country's needs. They are members of The Elders group, formed by former South African President Nelson Mandela to foster peace and tackle world conflicts.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; annan; carter; jimmycarter; kofiannan; mugabe; robertmugabe; zimbabwe
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1 posted on 11/22/2008 7:30:50 AM PST by george76
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Now if we can only refuse these traitors re-entry into the USA!!


2 posted on 11/22/2008 7:32:03 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
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To: Clive; Fred Nerks; SunkenCiv

Jimmy Carter must be sad?


3 posted on 11/22/2008 7:33:08 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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He must be sad not to be able to cozy up to Mugabe !

Jimmy Carter must be sad?
4 posted on 11/22/2008 7:34:06 AM PST by CORedneck
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To: george76

Just damn. I would hope they would let them in and then keep them there.


5 posted on 11/22/2008 7:34:26 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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Either that or have them kept hostage and with Obama’s gutlessness they’d be executed via firing squad. Ironically Mugabe would be helpful in that respect. If they’re kept alive, they’d be out of the way for four years.


6 posted on 11/22/2008 7:37:40 AM PST by Niuhuru (Fine, I'm A Racist and Proud Of It!)
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To: george76

Do they still have head shrinkers in Zimbabwe? Carter needs his skull shrunk to match his peanut sized brain.


7 posted on 11/22/2008 7:37:51 AM PST by albie
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DRAT!

Zimbabwe should have let them in and fed them to Niger Crocodiles.

Missed Opportunity.

8 posted on 11/22/2008 7:38:32 AM PST by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, ( member NRA)
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To: george76

I kinda wish he would have let Carter in and then thrown in him in some prison where he couldn’t communicate with anyone.


9 posted on 11/22/2008 7:41:00 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: george76

Mugabe can’t let them in just yet. He hasn’t finished building the Potemkin village.


10 posted on 11/22/2008 7:42:35 AM PST by Loyalist (It is my privilege to extend a laurel and hardy handshake to our new...president.)
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To: george76

Carter probably hailed Zimbabwe as the finest land of liberty after the turnback. Mugabe came to power in the Carter years.


11 posted on 11/22/2008 7:45:23 AM PST by egannacht
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They are afraid that they will run for high office and only make things worse.


12 posted on 11/22/2008 7:45:46 AM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: george76

Time to invade.


13 posted on 11/22/2008 7:48:24 AM PST by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

I think we should airdrop them in, with chutes even. Now is that honorable or not?


15 posted on 11/22/2008 8:08:09 AM PST by mcshot (Bitterly Loving God, Family, Life, Guns and our Constitution - as written!)
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To: george76

There’s hope for Zimbabwe yet, if they continue to make good decisions...


16 posted on 11/22/2008 8:51:44 AM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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17 posted on 11/22/2008 8:52:47 AM PST by Clive
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" think we should airdrop them in, with chutes even."

Waste of good parachutes.
But this suggests a solution to the problem of how to return the Gitmo "Detainees" to their home countries...

18 posted on 11/22/2008 8:56:46 AM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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081122 “Mugabe came to power in the Carter years.”

For those of you too young to remember, Carter is the one who put him in office. For many years, Rhodesia was a wonderful, productive, food exporting country/colony. Then Britain gave Rhodesia (now named Zimbabwe) it’s independence, and a good conservative, pro western government was elected and the communist left was rejected. Carter refused to accept this and so another election was held. Again they were elected, and again Carter rejected this. Finally, on the third election, the pro-communist Mugubawe was elected, and Carter cheered, and the destruction of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe was begun.


19 posted on 11/22/2008 8:57:33 AM PST by XBob (Jail the employers of the INVADERS !!)
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To: george76
"Jimmy Carter must be sad?"

Oh, he is certainly that:
a sad excuse for a man.

20 posted on 11/22/2008 8:57:44 AM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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