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2007-09-06 Africa Subsaharan

Violence looms as Zimbabwe runs out of food - except for the elite

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Posted by lotp 2007-09-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Eat the Rich.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-09-06 00:20|| 2007-09-06 00:20|| Front Page Top

#2 the very title of P.J. O'Rourke's book!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-09-06 08:06|| 2007-09-06 08:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Didn't the French Revolution in 1789 get started over something like this?

Posted by Delphi 2007-09-06 08:27|| 2007-09-06 08:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Sad to say, but maybe this is a good thing. They need to get desperate enough to overthrow Mugabe once and for all.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-09-06 09:19|| 2007-09-06 09:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Naw. Those strong enough will leave. Others will starve. Only when those with guns are starving will Mugabe meet his buddy Mao.

Posted by ed 2007-09-06 09:59|| 2007-09-06 09:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Those people need to depose that son of a bitch.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-09-06 10:16|| 2007-09-06 10:16|| Front Page Top

#7 You got it, ed, you been reading this guy's post from a couple of days ago.

http://www.eddiecross.africanherd.com/

He foretells the shortages finally affecting the Army and the Civil Service, with total lawlessness to folow, in short, unless Ambulances are sent in, it is too late to save the country at all.

But, hey, let's look on the bright side, if there's no country to govern, there's no need for a Government. ;)

Posted by rhodesiafever 2007-09-06 13:15|| 2007-09-06 13:15|| Front Page Top

#8 No aid, no food, no medical supplies.

Wait for the generals to get hungry.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-06 16:27|| 2007-09-06 16:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Dig up all the killed Farmers and Voodoo them back to life, restore their farms and pay reparation to them, (Not in Zimbob's waste-paper money, say in hard gold) well it's a better choice than reality (Starvation, riots followed by hangings.)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-09-06 17:05|| 2007-09-06 17:05|| Front Page Top

#10 link no work, copy and paste if you have a valid interest in the subject.

Posted by rhodesiafever 2007-09-06 18:22|| 2007-09-06 18:22|| Front Page Top

#11 President Mugabe forced businesses to slash prices of all goods and services in the belief that he could crush inflation, which he says is a plot by the Zimbabwean private sector, in collusion with Western governments, to overthrow him.

It is astounding that he has not been overthrown yet. With this combination of economic ignorance and paranoid delusion, the only thing Mugabe is fit for is to run the DailyKos website.

Posted by Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-09-06 21:26|| 2007-09-06 21:26|| Front Page Top

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