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| Australia says world must not bow to Zimbabwe threat | ||
| 2003-12-01 | ||
| Australia urged the international community on Monday not to be intimidated by Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe after he threatened to quit the Commonwealth if membership threatened his African country’s sovereignty. Go ahead, Bob, make my day. Zimbabwe was suspended from the 54-nation Commonwealth last year after Mugabe was accused of rigging his own re-election. He has not been invited to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Abuja in Nigeria from December 5-8. Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the situation in Zimbabwe was deteriorating and Mugabe had done nothing to encourage the group of mainly former British colonies to lift the suspension. Not unless you count being a lunatic among them ... ’’I hope that the international community will join with Australia and not be intimidated in any way by the taunts or the policies of President Mugabe,’’ Downer told parliament. At the weekend, Mugabe suggested Zimbabwe could quit the Commonwealth if the country had to give up its sovereignty to be readmitted. The Zimbabwe issue has dominated preparations for the Commonwealth summit and threatened to split the group along racial lines.
Umm ... yeah. Right.
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| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #3 Why the *hell* we have shitholes like Zimbabwe and Pakistan in the Commonwealth is beyond me. Who needs 'em - those kind of countries are just leeches on the British people. Oh sorry, colonial past creeping up on me there - must remember to feel guilty for events that happened 100+ years before I was born... How much longer has Bob got ya think? I raised a glass to Idi's demise, the Hussein spawn and would love to make it a threesome before the years out. |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2003-12-1 4:33:37 PM |
| #2 When making a threat, Bob should insure that the threat entails an actual downside for the threatened should they not comply with his demand. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-12-1 4:29:40 AM |
| #1 Mugabe accuses what he calls the ’’white’’ section of the group -- led by Australia and Britain -- of pursuing a vendetta because of the government’s seizure of white-owned farms. Gee, ya think, Bob? Then, show those awful white folks a thing or two. Cut some checks to compensate for the seizure of those farms. Show them you have a little class. |
| Posted by: badanov 2003-12-1 1:11:20 AM |