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2003-10-21 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Super Hose 2003-10-21 8:23:28 PM|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Better deal with your own's treatment in the hands of Iran before you dabble in such hobbies for your lawyers as Zimbabwe.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-10-21 8:36:26 PM|| 2003-10-21 8:36:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 AP, I thought about this one some more (pretty poor spell/edit job on my behalf - not to mention forgetting to dump it in Africa or Canada.) From a certain perspective it would be more honorable for Canada to worry about Zimbabwe rather than Iran because Canada has no stake in Zimbabwe.

In reality, Canada's worst nightmare would be to have another country actually extradite Mugambe to Canada for trial.

I do agree with the writer that Canada's symbolic gesture is better than the enablement action that South Africa is laying down.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-10-21 9:22:06 PM|| 2003-10-21 9:22:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe Canada should claim Mugabe has weapons of mass destruction, bully the UN, lie to their population and just go in and take him out?

Posted by NotMikeMoore 2003-10-21 9:36:16 PM|| 2003-10-21 9:36:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Now is this the same Canada that didn't think Saddam needed to be brought to justice, and who said if they found him they wouldn't turn him over to the US?

Posted by Carolyn Bacon 2003-10-21 10:17:35 PM|| 2003-10-21 10:17:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 LOL, bully the UN... yeah. Where do you come up with stuff like this?

Apropos this story... one call from Chirac, Chretien bends over, and these international lawyers are going no where. Case closed.

Posted by Rafael 2003-10-21 10:18:28 PM|| 2003-10-21 10:18:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't care how it's done, I'd just like to see Bob gone - real gone, like forever. Maybe we can accuse him of making rude comments about Bin Laden's mother or some such.

There is one way for this to make sense: if Canada DOES charge Mugabe with a serious (capital) offense against say, the Canadian representative in Zimbabwe (I don't think Canada has an embassy there), and bring the matter before the UN as an attack on diplomatic personnel, they may get somewhere. What would most likely happen would be the imposition of even MORE sanctions, and the bottling up of the Zimbabwe people, along with their trash - the Zanu PF. If enough countries felt strongly enough that dozens of warrants were issued, not only for Mugabe but for any member of his political party or government, and if the governments of nations bordering Zimbabwe follow through, he could be out of there in less than a year. Of course, in the meantime, another 20,000 will probably either starve, disappear, or be killed.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-10-21 11:25:32 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-10-21 11:25:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't know Carolyn--did they REALLY say that or did you read it in the Washington Times/Moonie paper?

Posted by NotMikeMoore 2003-10-22 12:11:03 AM|| 2003-10-22 12:11:03 AM|| Front Page Top

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