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2007-06-22 Africa Subsaharan

US predicts regime change in Zimbabwe as hyperinflation destroys the economy

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Posted by lotp 2007-06-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Green Steve needs to make a 3 line comment.

Posted by Shipman 2007-06-22 01:21|| 2007-06-22 01:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Then we'd have a fine flag.

Posted by Shipman 2007-06-22 01:21|| 2007-06-22 01:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Why don't know what keeps those people from rising up and tearing that miserable toadstool to pieces. It's long past time for a "night of the long knives" in Zimbabwe, I expected it months ago.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-06-22 09:54|| 2007-06-22 09:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Mugabe thinks that Nigeria is overpopulated, anyway.

Posted by gromky 2007-06-22 10:24|| 2007-06-22 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Why don't know what keeps those people from rising up and tearing that miserable toadstool to pieces.

Because while the remaining Zimbabwean cultural, intellectual, and business elite know Mugabe is a miserable toadstool, he's their miserable toadstool.

Posted by Pappy 2007-06-22 21:56|| 2007-06-22 21:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Pappy, it's his veteran goons. They are ones with guns and are still on his side. But once the host is hollowed out, soon, the veteran parasites will turn on Bob and themselves.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-06-22 22:04|| 2007-06-22 22:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Starving people don't usually cast off their chains, because their oppressors usually keep a barracks full of well-fed and well-armed thugs on retainer. Nobody orverthrew Stalin or Kim even though millions starved. Sadaam is a perfect example of a dictator who grew in strength the hungrier that his people got, because Oil-For-Food put him nearly 100% in charge of food distribution. The Ambassador is a nitwit. If Bob leaves, it will be into retirement with a healthy nest egg of specie.

Posted by Super Hose 2007-06-22 23:04|| 2007-06-22 23:04|| Front Page Top

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