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| ZimbabweÂ’s top cleric urges Britain to invade |
| 2007-07-01 |
| ZIMBABWE’S leading cleric has called on Britain to invade the country and topple President Robert Mugabe. Pius Ncube, the Archbishop of Bulawayo, warned that millions were facing death from famine, unable to survive amid inflation believed to have soared to 15,000%. Mugabe, 83, had proved intransigent despite the “massive risk to life”, said Ncube, the head of Zimbabwe’s 1m Catholics. “I think it is justified for Britain to raid Zimbabwe and remove Mugabe,” he said. “We should do it ourselves but there’s too much fear. I’m ready to lead the people, guns blazing, but the people are not ready.” Some parts of Zimbabwe have seen 95% of crops fail, leaving families with only two or three weeks’ food supply to last a year. Prices in the shops are more than doubling every week and Christopher Dell, the American ambassador, predicts that by the end of the year inflation could hit 1.5m%. Ncube said that far from helping those struggling on less than £1 a week, Mugabe had just spent £1m on surveillance equipment to monitor phone calls and e-mails. “How can you expect people to rise up when even our church services are attended by state intelligence people? “People in our mission hospitals are dying of malnutrition. We had the best education in Africa and now our schools are closing. Most people are earning less than their bus fares. There’s no water or power. Is the world just going to let everything collapse in on us?” |
| Posted by:mrp |
| #16 *smile* Well, you do have some expertise in the matter if I recall correctly, twobyfour dear. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-07-01 22:49 |
| #15 TW, I concur. Without Reagan's correct policy, the EE would be still under a yoke. The SU would be probably a little more "pragmatic" like China, but with the commie nomenclature intact and firmly reigning over the satellites. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-07-01 22:45 |
| #14 Instapundit had the correct question/answer: "Why doesn't someone just bump him [Mugabe] off?" A question many of us have asked, too.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-07-01 22:40 |
| #13 Swamp Blondie, the Eastern Europeans weren't able to do that until we beat the Soviet Union. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-07-01 22:32 |
| #12 Zimbabwe's church has been secretly infiltrated by the French? |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-07-01 22:29 |
| #11 If my memory serves me correctly, I remember the people of Eastern Europe liberating themselves without much, if any, overt outside intervention. And their security services weren't pushovers, either. |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie 2007-07-01 22:21 |
| #10 Hey, Zimmies! You wanted Bad Bob badly enough to threaten continued civil war if you didn't get him. Now you've got Bad Bob. Live (or die) with your choice. You can choose your actions; you just can't choose the consequences of those actions. I've got just about as much sympathy for you as you had for the whites you drove out. |
| Posted by: Mac 2007-07-01 18:57 |
| #9 The world rescued Zimbabwe from apartheid. I don't think that the world is responsible for rescued Zimbabwe from itself. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2007-07-01 18:10 |
| #8 Word Zhang... |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2007-07-01 18:09 |
#7 Is the world just going to let everything collapse in on us? You got it. Nation-rescuing & nation-building has somehow lost their allure since 2001. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-07-01 17:54 |
| #6 I would think that an invasion by South Africa would be much more likely ... and less potentially helpful. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2007-07-01 13:37 |
| #5 Um, no. There's still too many of the non ZANU-PF elite who view Mugabe as a 'Washington unfortunately gone to the Dark Side'. And they'd sooner drown than listen to non-Africans yelling at them to swim. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2007-07-01 13:25 |
| #4 Headline: ZimbabweÂ’s top cleric urges Britain to invade A more accurate headline: ZimbabweÂ’s top cleric urges Britain to give the Zimbabwean people a free lunch, on the backs of dead British soldiers If they want it, they can take it for themselves. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2007-07-01 12:54 |
| #3 They want the "White Man" to save them, tough shit assholes, not interested. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-07-01 11:43 |
| #2 Besides all that, you voted for the asshole. You raped and beat and killed the whites, drove them out of office, off their land, out of the country, you made your bed. Now sleep in it. Enjoy your black controlled paradise. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-07-01 11:11 |
| #1 If you wait for others to make you free, it will be a long wait. Even if you just try a little bit, just little things, you will earn some of your freedom. But if you can't muster the least bit of resistance yourself, you lose. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-07-01 09:18 |