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East/Subsaharan Africa
Mugabe Attacks Big Brother World of Bush and Blair
2003-02-25
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe launched a blistering attack on the United States and Britain on Tuesday, accusing them of creating a world where powerful Big Brother states imposed their will on weaker ones.
Bob clearly is bucking for membership in the Axis of Evil.
Speaking at a summit of the 116-member Poorly Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), Mugabe said President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were imperialists who wanted to impose a new form of liberty colonialism on developing countries. "Bush and Blair have apparently developed similar war-like dispositions deriving from similar ideologies of new imperialism," Mugabe told the summit.
It's the ideology of human rights and democracy, Bob, though given your education in the Soviet Union and elsewhere, I think you missed this.
"The United States, awakened to the implications of being the sole superpower, joined by Britain as a born-again colonialist, and other Western countries have turned themselves into fierce hunting bull-dogs raring to go, as they sniff for more blood, Third World blood."
Has Bob been taking lessons from KCNA?
Mugabe is under fire from the West over the alleged rigging of an election last year and the persecution of political foes as well as the seizure of white-owned farms for landless blacks. The United States and European Union except for France, encouraged by rights groups, have imposed travel, aid and economic sanctions on Zimbabwe. Blair has been particularly critical of Mugabe, spearheading opposition to the Zimbabwe government in the European Union under pressure from Britain's large expatriate Zimbabwean community. Mugabe said Blair's actions on Zimbabwe were "irrational." "He desires and is determined to undermine the sovereignty of my regime country and introduce democratic neo-colonialist rule. That we shall never allow him to achieve," he said.
Well, if it's going to be over your dead body ...
Mugabe said his position in Zimbabwe was more legitimate than that of Bush in the United States. "And is it not ironical that Mr. Bush who was not really elected should deny my legitimacy, the illegitimacy of President Mugabe, established by many observer groups from Africa and the Third World. Who, in these circumstances, should the world impose sanctions on? Robert Mugabe or George Bush?"
You.
Mugabe said that with the demise of the Cold War, colonialism had assumed a new form "under false economic pretences... Politically our sovereignty will not have the same weight as that of Big Brother and Big Brother has the right to determine the justice of our systems and not we his." He said the Western powers imposed different standards for themselves and others.
Well the French have, you got us there.
"Iraq might have developed or desired to develop arms of mass destruction. But the United States has massive arms of that magnitude. Why can't the United States demonstrate what Iraq should (do) by destroying their own massive heaps first?"
Defintely taking lessons from KCNA.
Posted by:Steve White

#3   "Actually, we were actively engaged in arms reduction talks with the USSR when 9-11 occurred"

And, IIUC. we have an ongoing program to destroy our old chemical weapons pursuant to treaty. A costly program, with controversial cost vs environment arguments. Why hasnt this meme been spread about more??
Posted by: liberalhawk   2003-02-25 14:21:46  

#2  I think Bob's campaigning for next years Nobel Peace Prize. Ripping the US is a good start. Always impresses the commitee. Maybe him and Chiraq can share it.
Posted by: tu3031   2003-02-25 09:33:31  

#1  "Why can't the United States demonstrate what Iraq should (do) by destroying their own massive heaps first?"
Well, they're trying to destroy a massive heap even as we speak....
What about the French?? They have massive heaps too...Chiraq being one of them I might add.
Posted by: RW   2003-02-25 01:21:12  

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