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Posted by: Aidenag 2 years, 7 months agoIn an Easter message pinned to church bulletin boards around the country, Zimbabwe's Roman Catholic bishops called on President Robert Mugabe to leave office or face "open revolt" from those suffering under his government.
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1-2-Oscar
April 9, 2007, 7:08 a.m.The bishops have called for "a shared commitment for the common good." Yet that is exactly what Mugabe lacks. He has a commitment to what he perceives as his own "good," and he is willing to reward those who make it possible for him to exercise ruthless control, but he has brought the once-rich nation to a point of crisis, and he is only willing to point his fingers at "enemies" whom he blames for everything.
Zimbabwe's Catholics do not have the power to effect a change there now. But this is a beginning. Perhaps other elements, including the traditional leadership, will now come forward and join the insistence on change.
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UBCONFUSE
April 9, 2007, 9:28 a.m.Life in Zimbabwe will get far, far worse before it gets better. Mugabe is merely the thief of the decade. He will be replaced by another megalomaniac with an AK-47 and the suffering will get worse. Just turn your back as it is far easier than looking at something you cannot change. This is how Africa works, but now with Western weapon technology, the historical tribal balance is virtually destroyed.
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blinkers
April 9, 2007, 9:55 a.m.The sooner that Robert Mugabe is dispatched to the dustbin of African history the better the chances are for this sad country to begin the long march out of the pitiful mess his long misrule has created.
As recently as 1995 the country was self sufficient in food, and had a potentially decent future.
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WCFIELDS
April 9, 2007, 10:55 a.m.The Leftists who supported the destruction of Rhodesia will simply not stand for this. I believe that at this very moment tens of thousands of 1970's liberals are closing out their 401K plans, stopping by the office to quit their sales jobs and heading for Zimbabwe, the one they helped create, to straighten things out. They've quietly waited 28 years for Robert to make a fantastic success of this African run disaster. That which was obvious to some in 1980 has now become clear to even the Silly folks. There's a great day ahead for Zimbabwe.
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ConquerorWyrm
April 9, 2007, 8:33 p.m.Remember Zimbabwe
(a rondeau, written 11-10-2002)
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Remember Zimbabwe in your prayers tonight
Remember the children who will die
Remember before you lay down your head
to say a prayer for the morning's dead
when Lord Hunger claims the African night.
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As the Eagle rises (oh, what a sight!)
to make mockery of a desperate plight,
a faint voice was heart to have said...
..."Remember Zimbabwe"
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As we prepare to express our might
and do what it is we believe is right,
let us remember that child in her bed
for the oil in her veins runs all too red
and there is desperation in her eyes
...Remember Zimbabwe
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ConquerorWyrm
April 10, 2007, 12:58 a.m.Dreaming I Saw Death At Cafe Zimbabwe
(an open rondeau, 11-24-2002)
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I saw Death in Africa Last Night weilding a bloody schythe
Reaping through rows of children once concieved with hopeful seed
In a harvest too horrid to be seen in my dreams
For a garden of stones to mark the bones of victims sprang forth
From every drop of human blood to spill upon the earth.
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Bio-chemical warfare waged in the stomach of a waif
Her dark eyes tragic, beautiful in a drawn mask of despair
Into those eyes, as deep, as rich as pools of Iraqi tea,
...I saw Death
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Despair poured out upon the ground the last decanter of Hope
While Misery sipped her tea sweetened with a touch of Fear
Not far away, Tragedy and Lord Hunger sat to chat
Much was discussed, the human race, a little of this and that
And sitting around waiting as if with amusement on his mind
...I saw Death
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ConquerorWyrm
April 10, 2007, 7:47 p.m.I gave your comments a negative rating ("Yes, the darling of the Libs was just another African tin horn dictator","a Democrat") because, well, they were just as stupid and idiotic as those idiots cracking jokes about the tragedy. Yup, absolutely stupid. Why? Um, chuckleknuts, just tell me how you justify blaming 'liberals' or 'Democrats' for Mugabe...
Yup, absolutely stupid and polorized wherein no justification nor support of those two comments could possibly exist outside of a stupid and snide desire to paint broadly those who differ with you on political issues here in the U.S. with the evil of a dictator from a former British protectorate whom has ruled this tragic nation through both Republican and Democratic U.S. Presidents as well as both Republican and Democratic control of the U.S. Congress.
I would as you to justify those comments if you've the courage and fairness to. Otherwise, prove your courage by posting a retraction.
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Disulfate
April 10, 2007, 2:14 p.m.It's a disgrace to the human species when one man can bring
so much misery to a country.
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