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Africa Subsaharan
U.S. Won't Support a Zimbabwe Government That Includes Mugabe, Top Envoy Says
2008-12-23
The United States will not support a unity government in Zimbabwe that includes President Robert Mugabe, a top American envoy told reporters in South Africa on Sunday.
Hope they've coordinated that with the B.O. regime and that he sticks to it.
He will. There's no upside to making nice with Bob. Bob's a thug and even the progressives know it. More to the point, he's an unimportant thug ...
A power-sharing agreement between Zimbabwe's opposition parties and Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe with increasing severity for 28 years, is "not credible with Mugabe as president" because he appears unwilling to share control, said Jendayi Frazer, U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs.

The comments, which came days after Frazer echoed calls by President Bush and other world leaders that Mugabe step down, indicated a shift in U.S. policy toward a power-sharing deal signed in September.

The United States, like other Western nations, initially expressed support for the agreement and pledged to ease sanctions and send aid dollars if the deal gave opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai true power. Under the terms of the pact, Tsvangirai was to become prime minister, and his party and a splinter opposition party were to hold 16 of 31 cabinet seats.

But implementation of the pact has stalled since then, as Zimbabwe's devastated economy has collapsed further and a cholera outbreak has killed more than 1,100 people.
Posted by:Fred

#2  There's no silver bullet, newc. There are thugs waiting to take Bob's place--and no doubt getting impatient with the old man's longevity. I doubt they'll represent any improvement.
Posted by: James   2008-12-23 23:59  

#1  Reinstate Pat Robertson, and let him find the merc to pull the trigger.

Kill Mugabe.

There, was that so hard?

All of you idiots. All of you from congress, that fool UN, the "African Union", allowed this to happen, and Jimmah carter, man with no GOD.

YOU ALL ARE guilty. Rhodesia was not failed by anyone but that scum that took power.

Curse you Magabe, and Bles you who takes that ungodly tyrant away from the people he has destroyed.

DO IT NOW.
Assisinate that piece of dung before I have an anurism with the entire human"" race.
Posted by: newc   2008-12-23 02:59  

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