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- ArmyOfFun, on 10/12/2007, -8/+77Reluctantly dugg, the article is pretty good but sicc's title is needlessly inflammatory.
- everfresh59, on 10/12/2007, -14/+75This story should be Dugg to the homepage, by far more concerning than whether XBox360 is better than PS3....Zimbabwe's President is a piece of *****, hopefully someone will do the right thing and kill his sorry ass.....or at the very least, feed him some fried rats.....People like this piss me the ***** off.......
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24Let's not forget that Mugabe is the same guy that the Congressional Black Caucus was holding hands with a few years ago.
- OUPablo, on 10/12/2007, -14/+32I love how any article about a bad leader always has some comment about Bush in the title. Is it really necessary? Whether you like him or not, its not really relevant to the article. But a disturbing article none the less.
- arcangelgabriel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19I agree that Zimbabwe's President is a piece of *****, but I can live without the Incendiary title tactics. It's only going to detract from Africa and feed the trolls.
- Ellsass, on 11/05/2008, -1/+15I decided to settle for neither a digg nor a bury. Aside from the obvious flamebaiting, there are many more than 2 presidents who have screwed up their country.
- emorphien, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19ignorance in in style, isn't it Breakpoint25?
Agreed on the article too. Really destroying that country. - Capta1nA, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Not everyone was "okay" with going into Iraq and/or Afghanistan.
- jiggawoot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11No no no. They're not eating rats because they're starving.
Didn't you read what Mugabe said? It's a delicacy, just like half eaten hot-dogs found in the rubbish bin, and not to forget the "oh so tasty" New York pigeon. - Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Oh, he meant Bush? OK, in that case I apologize.
- wilsonder, on 10/12/2007, -8/+17Neat article, but I'm sticking with a 360.
- mateo60, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12It's so arrogant of you to just assume that "it's the best government out there."
- Lasker, on 10/12/2007, -9/+17I'm burying. I'm sick of screwed up titles. This may have not even made the front page without the flamebait.
- 40bslove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8As a Zimbabwean i approve this article
- withincontext, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"Everyone" huh? Take that blanket statement and smother yourself with it.
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I despise Bush, but compared to Mugabe he's a saint, a shining paragon of rationality and virtue.
Frankly I don't know why western press avoid criticising the clinically insane leader of Zimbabwe. Political correctness gone wild? I don't know.
Here we have a guy who's ordered rapes and numerous murders, who's caused his people to starve, who refers to gays as "lesser than pigs and dogs" and calls homosexuality a "white disease", who's openly racist and claims that “the only white man you can trust is a dead white man”, and who blames his own mistkes on "the whites", a man who Archbishop Desmond Tutu referred to as a "caricature of an African dictator".... And yet western press and politician tip-toe around the issue, avoiding anything which in the diseased mind of Mugabe might be seen as an insult. Why?
Read about this vile bastard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe
http://www.genocidewatch.org/ZimbabweFacingMassMurder12August2005.htm
“Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!" - jeff1943, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I even read somewhere that Zimbabwe doesn't even have the budget now to buy printing paper for passports.
- jamesey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This is an unpopular opinion, but it's backed by fact. Remove white people from power (I'm not just talking about political) in Africa, and the country will get worse before it gets better. Look at S. Africa, Senegal, Angola, and now Zimbabwe.
- logic, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10"Everyone was okay going into Iraq and Afghanistan at the start."
I guess you missed the bit where between six and thirty million people (500,000 - 600,000 in the US alone) demonstrated in the streets on February 15th, 2003 against it. We forgive you. - Shayer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8The title almost made me want to bury it, but i dugg it anyways if it at least gets some exposure on the Zimbabwe situation.
Honestly though, there's no reason to mention Bush in this thread at all, whether you agree with his policies or not. - dan0111, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Unnecessary title...
- PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7patik: Don't yell at the grammar police. They will beat you with the Chicago Manual of Style.
- kettlechips, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I was there last month, and even in US dollars, food is prohibitively expensive.
- alex1432, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Would as many people have read the article if it wasn't inflammatory? Most people don't seem to care that other parts of the world are not doing well (to put it mildly). I would have phrased the title to say something like "meet the president who actually ruined a country in 6 years."
- mateo60, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@kavaliro
dude, I was with you until you mentioned "the mark of the beast". Seriously?? - Volred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is truly a sad story. I wish there was something I could do. But Mugabe is driving that country down a dark dark road.
- signal15, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Maybe they should of rounded up people that had the skills to operate the commercial farms before they ran the white people out. According to the article, this land sits unused now. So it's not that Zimbabwe lacks the natural resources to self-sustain itself, it seems to me that it lacks the organization and skill be self sufficient.
Maybe some day their president and ours will sit in a cell together and try to top each other's stories about how they ***** up. - vp0ng, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6it's a sad truth, but sometimes it takes tactics like this to get people to notice what is going on elsewhere, as we are mainly concerned with our own little part of the world.
- OriginalLucid1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@Sicc
Why did you feel compelled to put an American President in your headline anyway? There is NO comparison between ANY American President and President AnyThug from any African Nation. (And that even includes Carter) If (as one would assume) your intent was to focus on the bad situation in Africa, you would have been better served to leave your hatred for GWB out of it. But in all reality, I know you guys can't help yourselves. - drummer1189, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4digg is a news website, the title shouldn't decide whether its worthy to be on the front page, the content seems to be quite pressing to say the least, the more people that know about it the better.
- DoodlesMcPooh, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9"How would you feel if you were ruled by an ***** dictator?"
He might not be a dictator but he certainly is an ***** and a war criminal. It is a shame he is not a dictator because if he was there would probably have been a military coup by now. - geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4How long will you blame white people and take responsibility for your actions. You're saying there's no link to the fact that right after evil oppressive white farmers were kicked out inflation when into triple digits? Get real. Although it was terrible that white people owned so much land, kicking them out so fast was plain stupid. You needed a transition plan, instead the people who made Zimbabwe function were kicked out. Similar to what happened to Algeria after the French were kicked out - the country went to hell. The oppressed, who know nothing about running a country, were given control and mismanagement ensued and you have no one to blame but yourselves.
Blaming whitey isn't going to make inflation go to 2%. What will make inflation go to 2% is to get help from whitey - IMF - and impose austerity measures. Instead you want to rid yourself of the 'white devil'. Well guess what, the white devil can help. You fail to see your own racism. Get over yourselves and stop blaming white people. - kavaliro, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7@ Holosoth:Yeah, buddy. Whatever.
Know the difference between "bad" and "evil?" "Bad" speaks of the willingness to do harmful things. There are a lot of bad people in prison. "Evil" applies to those with both the will and the power to do those things.
Mugabe is an evil man. That's true enough. He's destroyed his country. He's devastated it to the point that it's affecting the countries surrounding it. No doubt about it-- there's a man that is Evil.
Bush, so far, has obliterated two countries: Afganistan and Iraq. In addition, he has set in motion just about everything that's associated with Evil or the Apocalypse:
1. RealID which is the precursor to humans being forcibly implanted with the Mark of the Beast, brought to you by your friends at Verichip.
2. Destruction of Habeus Corpus and granting himself the ability to detain anyone for any reason at anytime.
3. Fostering the destruction of America's heartland, by allowing Walmart and Corporate Farming and genetically modified crops to continue it's viral infestation of America, killing it's ability to survive on it's own.
4. (Re-)mobilizing Christians as political entities. That's like juggling tennis balls filled with nitroglycerin. A bad, destructive idea. The only reason we aren't already in the middle of a Witch-hunt already is that they are outnumbered by those they would hunt (gays, blacks, atheists, and scientists, if current patterns are followed.)
5. Created the American Gestapo, aka the Department of Homeland Security. Enough said.
I could go on. And on and on and on.
So that's at least 3 countries, if you include our own, which he's ripping to shreds. Not to mention the damage he's done to the world as a whole. No matter how you slice it, if Mugabe is Evil, then Bush would be the Anti-Christ. In fact, I look back over the last 6 years and I can't find even one good thing he's done, besides pardoning a few turkeys.
Evil. So don't dare defend him. - airmann90, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Thought it was gonna be about nixon... whoops.
- chulium, on 10/12/2007, -16/+20Agreed. "Screwed up" is a matter of opinion. There are still those - I among them - that support him. I respect others' opinions, but I'm just sharing mine.
- jiggawoot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7@ Junkyarddawg
I believe chulium was saying they support George Dubbya, not Mugabe. - nightwing2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Classic political brain vs. economic reality issue.
The white farmers over 100 years ago stole all the good land from the local (black) inhabitants. Mugabe used the pretext of returning the land. Instead, it was "steal the land, give it to your followers". A number of members of his tribe and his army got a good deal - so they thought. Mobs of outsiders went in, and even where the farmer had locals who were using some of the land, they drove him (and the local blacks) away, if they didn't kill them, and took the land. Naturally, these aren' t the ones who know how to farm anything, even if they were interested. They certainly couldn't run a modern mechanized farm, which is what made Rhodesia the breadbasket of Africa. Between neglect, mechanical breakdown, economic crises, and a badly-timed drought (global warming, anyone?) the land produces NOTHING now.
Mugabe has treated the rest of the country's economy with the same neglect of the laws of economics. A country that used to produce almost everything, even toothpaste, due to UN sanctions against Rhodesia, now produces nothing. He became the poster child for why the whites did not want to hand back South Africa. Thank God for people like Nelson Mandela, with more common decency and fairness. Otherwise, nobody would be noticing Zimbabwe in the news nowadays because SA would be worse. - shig, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8I am being ruled by an ***** dictator! Thanks to your ignorance I am reminded of that fact! Thank you very much.
- siszam, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11Bush called himself "The Decider". He has pretty much declared by words and deeds that he is a dictator.
- siszam, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Zimbabwe ambassador to U.S. calls eating rodents "a delicacy"
“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.” — George W. Bush - nixfu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4
*sigh*.... yet ANOTHER sign that digg is full of CHILDREN... hell most of you people don't even know the names of any other presidents except Bubba and Bush. - bubisparks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Entirely true. Happened about a month ago. A while back they didn't have the resources to print more money either. Inflation there is the worlds highest and is now over 1000%...
- fix8ed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Exactly. Whether you like him or hate him (Bush) these horrible events have nothing to do with him. The OP is just spewing his incorrect liberal bias all over it.
Not dug, buried. - 40bslove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thank you for exposing the truth
- LinuxGalore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Zimbabwe cant even rebuild the farm industry it has lost either. The white farmers have moved to other countries and in the case of Zambia they have helped the economy. The locals are very happy to have the white farmers increasing the quality of life and the improved income generated as a side effect.
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/2-26-2006-89884.asp - brezhoneg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3To the idiot who thinks Bush is the world's worse tyrant after Mugabe, here is a list of presidents or rulers. Most people agreed they play in another league than Bush.
Castro in Cuba
Kim Jong-Il in North Korea ( 3 million people died of starvation )
Adolf Hitler : millions of death
Staline : probably around 20 millions death
Mao Zhedong : between 30 millions and 50 millions
Pol Pot in Cambodia : 1.5 millions out of a population of 4 to 5 millions.
Caecescu in Rumania
the list goes on and on.
Saying that Bush is worse than those guys qualifies you as an idiot. - chulium, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Maybe you missed the fact that his entire country is starving...
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