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Fighting ends Zimbabwe conference

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BBC NEWS | Africa | Fighting ends Zimbabwe conference

Zimbabwe has abandoned a conference on a new constitution after fights broke out between rival delegations.

Supporters of President Robert Mugabe disrupted the meeting by dancing and singing revolutionary songs.

Some delegates walked out in protest, others threw water bottles. Riot police had to clear out the Harare venue.

Thousands of politicians and activists had joined the talks, which were intended as the start of a year of consultations on the issue.

A referendum is scheduled for a year's time and once a charter is in place, Zimbabwe is expected to have another attempt at holding a free and fair election.

Former opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was sworn in as prime minister in a power-sharing government in February to end months of political deadlock following last year's disputed elections.

Really they just wanted a break to pay tribute to Michael Jackson, but you know how the media is, they just blow everything out of porportion!:lol:

Seriously though, we do not get to discuss Africa much folks, so thoughts?
 
They elected a socialist thug to be their leader, they got what they asked for.

Their problem, not ours.
 
They elected a socialist thug to be their leader, they got what they asked for.

Their problem, not ours.

Mugabe hasn't been elected to anything in years. You don't really believe his moronic claims that he won the last election, do you?
 
They elected a socialist thug to be their leader, they got what they asked for.

Their problem, not ours.

Often leaders start out with honest intentions unfortunately they often end up as despised dictators.

Paul
 
Mugabe has been indicted by the Hague, and if he can ever be captured will be tried. So I would hardly call him an elected official.
 
Mugabe hasn't been elected to anything in years. You don't really believe his moronic claims that he won the last election, do you?

They elected him once.

Their problem, not ours.

The US ain't the po-leece force of the world, remember?
 
Mugabe has been indicted by the Hague, and if he can ever be captured will be tried. So I would hardly call him an elected official.

Then the Hague needs to send some Hague cops down to arrest Mugabe.

Not an American problem, period.
 
Often leaders start out with honest intentions unfortunately they often end up as despised dictators.

Paul

Leaders who promise socialism aren't honest.

Their problem, not ours.

If the Hague's indicted him, let the Hague arrest him.
 
They elected him once.

Their problem, not ours.

So you believe that anyone who gets elected to anything at any point in their lives has the right to stay in that office as long as they want and murder political opponents? :confused:

Scarecrow Akhbar said:
The US ain't the po-leece force of the world, remember?

Who said anything about the US policing Zimbabwe? As far as I can tell you are the first one to bring up policing the world in this thread.
 
So you believe that anyone who gets elected to anything at any point in their lives has the right to stay in that office as long as they want and murder political opponents? :confused:

Do make as least some minimal effort to understand the phrase "their problem, not mine".

I don't care if he lives for two hundred years and never leaves office. He's an excellent example of why no one should ever support anything that even remotely looks like socialism, and the Zimbabwe-ans (whatever) deserve whatever they get for electing him. Gee, they went from exporter of food to "can't give away 100,000,000,000 dollar bank notes" in less than five years, thanks to the wonderfulness of socialism.

If they like him so much, they can keep him. They wanted him.

I do suppose, though, if he's ejected, the Obama team will snap him up as an economic advisor.

We'll have to see what develops.
 
They elected him once.

Their problem, not ours.

The US ain't the po-leece force of the world, remember?

No one is implying that the U.S. take any action. The thread is about African politcs, nothing more. Geez your hard on Africa! Will you be saying it's their problem if Iran gets nukes to threaten Israel, or will that be our problem to police the world?;)
 
Do make as least some minimal effort to understand the phrase "their problem, not mine".

Do you go out of your way to visit struggling restaurants across town and yell at their owners that it's their problem, not yours? If you don't care, then why are you posting in this thread at all?

Scarecrow Akhbar said:
I don't care if he lives for two hundred years and never leaves office. He's an excellent example of why no one should ever support anything that even remotely looks like socialism, and the Zimbabwe-ans (whatever) deserve whatever they get for electing him. Gee, they went from exporter of food to "can't give away 100,000,000,000 dollar bank notes" in less than five years, thanks to the wonderfulness of socialism.

He wasn't elected because he was a socialist, he was elected because he was a post-colonial hero in the eyes of Zimbabweans. But that was nearly 30 years ago.

Scarecrow Akhbar said:
If they like him so much, they can keep him. They wanted him.

Like I said, he hasn't been elected to anything in years.

Scarecrow Akhbar said:
I do suppose, though, if he's ejected, the Obama team will snap him up as an economic advisor.

Are you an actual person, or are you just a liberal satire of what conservatives/libertarians believe? The more I talk to you, the more I wonder.
 
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