Mark Steyn: Our day of shame over Zimbabwe

National Post (Canada) ^ | 03/07/2002 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

Ping for the MSPL

[headsonpikes]

"Mr Chretien certainly has no balls."

One ballsy guy is Mark Steyn! LOL!

[general_re]

Mr. Mugabe, you'll recall, has described Mr. Blair as a "gay gangster" leading "the gay government of the gay United gay Kingdom."

Soooo, he's gay, then? I'm not really sure what Mugabe might mean by this...

[Dog Gone]

"Everybody has agreed that nothing will be done." There is Lloyd Axworthy's "soft power" doctrine in a nutshell: Consensus in the cause of inertia is no vice.

That sums up the Commonwealth, a group of socialist utopian nations.

Mugabe is a madman who has brought ruin to what could have been the role model for the rest of Africa. And Chretien is an enabler.

[Slyfox]

Bump

[Billthedrill]

With his country crumbling away faster than his penis...

I might be wrong, but I suspect that this is the first time this metaphor has been used in the history of the English language...

[gcruse]

This was the first time I have seen Afro-Marxist, too. I could only Google up a reference to a rap lyric for it.

[Travis McGee]

bttt

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[Brian Allen]

"The communique reads a little like everyone is responsible for the violence and intimidation. That is not the case," said New Zealand's Labour Prime Minister, Helen Clark, adding that the Commonwealth's failure to do anything makes it look "slightly silly."

Thank you, Hell'n.

Sometimes we conservatives spend so much time mourning the loss of the old Dominion of Canada that we don't notice that the principled lefties have lost their Canada, too.

Thank you, M Trudeau, you most Evil of Evil bastards!

[XBob]

remember - he is Jimmy Carter's creation. Carter vetoed two elections, and declared them null and void, and forced a third election in which M was 'elected'.

[Dog Gone]

I didn't know that. I was a politically unaware moron who voted for Carter.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Zimbabwe -- Farmers providing election support arrested

Michael Laban, left, a member of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, registers an appeal with Zimbabwe police Inspector Martin Mberi after being told that his name had been deleted from the voters roll at Avondale polling station in Harare on the first day of the Presidential Elections, Saturday March 9, 2002. (AP PHOTO) - Mar 09 6:53 AM ET

Mike Auret, left, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change MP for Harare Central is assisted by Presiding Officer Gladys Chirokote, center, and an election officer after he discovered he had been struck off the voters roll at Avondale polling station in Harare, on the first day of the Zimbabwe Presidential Elections, Saturday March 9, 2002. Auret protested and later in the day presented evidence of his citizenship, and the election officials allowed him to vote.(AP PHOTO) - Mar 09 6:43 AM ET

[XBob]

We didn't have the internet in those days, and conservatives had/have no 'official written memories' of those periods. So, the 'liberals', who control the media conveniently forget to mention this when they discuss what is happening. Carter also screwed around with the elections in Nicaragua so that the Communists could take over, and this is also forgotten, but fortunately Regan got in and helped nullify the rigged carter sandanista elections. this was the reason for the Regan problem with supporting the 'contras', and the democrat congress which cancelled funding for the anti-communist 'contras'.

Carter also screwed around supporting the communists in Angola, but I never could keep up with all the machinations there.

Basically, my opinion is that Carter is a communist, as there are many other examples of his support for communists and communist regimes.

[Dog Gone]

Carter may have done more damage than Clinton. Except for Iran and Zimbabwe, we've mostly cleaned his messes up.

Mostly.

[XBob]

yes, under Regan mostly.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

"Merci beaucoup, Comrade Chretien! Without the help of socialist pansies like yourself I'd be selling day-old goats milk in Bulawayo Market!"

[billhilly]

This was the first time I have seen Afro-Marxist, too. I could only Google up a reference to a rap lyric for it.

This is the first time I have seen "Google up." Congratulations to you for your contribution to the ever expanding english language.