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| East/Subsaharan Africa |
| Bob sez it's lies, all lies! |
| 2003-01-16 |
| Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe sought yesterday to end talk that he was considering early retirement, telling a skeptical nation that it would be "foolhardy" for him to step down just months after a fiercely contested election. "Leave? Why, no. Who told you I was?" But talk of a secret deal reverberated in his capital, Harare, where opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai told news organizations during the weekend that he had been approached by the president's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party about participating in a post-Mugabe government. And it doesn't really matter whether he was or not, does it? Heh heh. Speaking in Zambia, where he attended a ceremony to honor former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, Mr. Mugabe said, "It would be absolutely counterrevolutionary and foolhardy for me to step down" at this time. "I mean, the howling mobs haven't even broken down the gates to the presidential palace yet..." He insisted that exile was not an option, saying, "I fought for Zimbabwe, and |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 I suspect that there are many people considering Bob's early retirement. Cumulative lead poisoning will probably be the main reason. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2003-01-16 12:55:59 |