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Zimbabwe farmer Ben Freeth begs Barack Obama to stop Robert Mugabe land grab
The Times ^ | 10/11/2009 | Christina Lamb

Posted on 10/11/2009 12:39:27 AM PDT by bruinbirdman

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To: Lockbar

You beat me by 13 minutes. I agree.

By next year, Zimbabwe is going to be ethnically cleansed, but maybe if they award Bob the Nobel Peace Prize, he’ll stop killing his fellow blacks.


21 posted on 10/11/2009 4:02:55 AM PDT by altair (Watch your step! in Obama's America)
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To: bruinbirdman

Ben , Pal :

Obama is trying to turn this country into Zimbabwe. You picked the wrong guy to come to.

I hate to tell you this Ben, but before long we will be in the same boat.

Maybe you should try Australia.


22 posted on 10/11/2009 4:03:56 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Lockbar

I’m surprised he hasn’t! Chavez is due too!


23 posted on 10/11/2009 4:12:42 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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“Zimbabwe farmer Ben Freeth begs Barack Obama to stop Robert Mugabe land grab”

Don’t hold your breath while you’re waiting; they’re both racists with a jaundiced eye toward white people.


24 posted on 10/11/2009 4:50:31 AM PDT by RoadTest (Religion never saved anyone, and never will.)
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Zimbabwe farmer Ben Freeth begs Barack Obama to stop Robert Mugabe land grab

Mr. Freeth, you are asking the pupil for help against the master.

25 posted on 10/11/2009 6:07:53 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (ZerOcare: Bureaucratic best practices equals death panels.)
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To: bruinbirdman

Fat chance. That’s like begging Stalin to persuade Beria to stop murdering Kulaks.


26 posted on 10/11/2009 6:08:08 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: bruinbirdman

$#!*! He’s more likely to get beaten here so O and his henchmen can get some practice for their move on private property.......


27 posted on 10/11/2009 6:16:18 AM PDT by Feckless (Don't care where he was born. The oath I took said "...all enemies, foreign and domestic".)
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Well, I guess he figures he might as well appeal to the greater Ci-cago Mobguwe.


28 posted on 10/11/2009 6:25:51 AM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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0bama is the weakest president when it comes to human rights that we have ever had.


29 posted on 10/11/2009 11:08:11 AM PDT by happygrl (Hope and Change or Rope and Chains?)
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Tsvangirai grandson dies in pool
BBC ^ | 5 April 2009 | BBC
The death of the child, Sean, comes less than a month after Mr Tsvangirai’s wife Susan died in a car crash.

Tsvangirai Crash Was ‘Hand of God’, Says MugabeThe Times (London) ^ | 11 Mar 2009
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe said the car crash that killed Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s wife was “the hand of God”, speaking at a funeral service on Tuesday. “It will take him time to recover from this shock. I plead with you to accept it, it’s the hand of God,” Mugabe told hundreds of mourners gathered at a Methodist church in Harare. The remarks were Mugabe’s first public comments on the crash that killed Susan Tsvangirai and injured her husband on Friday. An oncoming truck hit their 4x4 on a potholed highway outside Harare, sending their vehicle flipping off the road....

Zimbabwe PM flown to Botswana after crash (for medical tests)
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HARARE (AFP) – Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was flown to neighbouring Botswana for medical tests on Saturday after being seriously injured in a car crash that killed his wife, his party said. “I do not know when he will be back, he will undergo a check-up, but he is out of danger now,” a spokesman for Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said. Hours earlier, Tsvangirai — who suffered neck and head injuries in Friday’s crash — was seen by an AFP reporter walking out of the Avenues Clinic in Harare accompanied by his top allies. The crash happened...

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Zimbabwean prime minister’s wife dies in crash
IHT ^ | March 6, 2009 | IHT
HARARE, Zimbabwe: The prime minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, was hurt and his wife, Susan, fatally injured on Friday in a car crash about 45 miles south of the capital, according to officials of Tsvangirai’s political party, the Movement for Democratic Change. Tsvangirai was heading to his rural home for a Saturday rally when the crash occurred Friday afternoon. From his hospital bed in Harare on Friday, he told one of his aides that a large truck driving on the other side of the road had come toward his Land Cruiser, the middle vehicle in a three car convoy. The...

Tsvangirai’s wife dead in crash (Prime Minister injured but not critical condition)
BBC News ^ | 3/6/09 | BBC
The wife of Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has been killed in a car crash in which he was also hurt, party officials say. Susan Tsvangirai was travelling with her husband south of the capital, Harare, when the crash happened. Mr Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, formed a unity government with President Robert Mugabe last month. The two had been long-time rivals before agreeing a power-sharing deal. MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa told Reuters news agency that Mr Tsvangirai, who will turn 57 next week, was not in a critical condition. “We have just heard that...


30 posted on 12/06/2019 9:08:24 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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