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Mugabe says “I am still a Hitler” Della writes in with something that proves Saddam Hussain and Ba’athist Socialism are not the only ghastly regime around
Robert Mugabe, refereshed from his meeting with M. Chirac in February annouced March 21st that “I am still a Hitler“. He clarified this by saying “let me be Hitler ten-fold and that’s what we stand for.”
In unrelated news the leader of the Zanu-PF party said late November 2002 “We would be better off with only six million people”.
The current population of Zimbabwe is 12 million.
Nice Mr. Chirac’s favourite African mass murderer
Editors note: When the British forces are finished in Iraq, perhaps they need to return home via Harare…
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Dictators often have a delusion of serving as “president for life”.
Their tenure is actually a lot shorter than life, due to a popular uprising of the trampled peoples who decide that enough is enough.
That seems to be occurring in Zimbabwe.
If Hitler stuck to killing Germans, no European nation would have bothered him either, much less the US. So you could say that as long as Mugabe sticks to killing Zimbabweans, he is hunky dory. We’ve got enough problems dealing with dictators that pose a threat to our security. Cynical, yes, but can you imagine it any other way?
Yes I certainly can imagine it another way, LuminaT.
This is why I think we should rescind the executive order on assassinating foreign leaders. It’s dangerous when looked at as the first option, but if terminating Mugabe will save tens of thousands of lives, all the better. He’s been using the secret police to go after his tribe’s rivals,the Ndebele/Matabele, for as long as he’s been in office. Isn’t that what made Milosevic an evil man, using the state to further personal desires of ethnic cleansing? Odd how the French loved both of them.
Your caption under Mugabe’s Brussels flag adorned head is presumptuous. Who are you to judge who is Jacques Chirac’s favourite African mass murderer? After all, France has never met an mass murderering dictator/oppressor/kleptomaniac it didn’t like. Mugabe may be the current favourite, but if we are talking in terms of all-time favourites, golden oldies, so to speak, I think Papa Doc Duvalier would be right up there, along with Idi Amin. There’s a long stream of contenders … some of them living in comfortable retirement from the mass murdering game in France, at the invitation of the French government.
Frank, I believe the United States is circumventing its executive order as of late 2001. The primary reason we didn’t assasinate leaders before is that the favor is usually returned in kind (what goes around…). This order was put in place because of the many and varied assasination attempts on Fidel Castro, which was returned in kind to President John F. Kennedy, with greater success. President George W. Bush, however, seems to see the utility of the technique, and seems to have personal fear resulting from it.
A true assasination of a leader of a sovereign state, though, would actually be disastrous politically for us, no matter how evil the dictator is. This is why the list of targets is rumored to be only terrorist leaders.
Historically, this is why many countries have ended up with violent “coups”.
Themic,
I was unsure as to whether the executive order was ever rescinded, or was only discussed. I view the field today as far different from that with Castro, in which there was deterrance, and checks and balances to the execution of power. Nothing is stopping the pond scum of the world from attempting hits on our leaders, and nothing will, unless they’re spending time with the worms. I agree that an assassination of a sovereign leader, like Allende, would be a disaster. But the removal of a “president-for-life”, who has as much democratic legitimacy as a pet rock, would be beneficial. Popularily elected leaders who subject themselves to what is deemed a fair election by international observers have nothing to fear. However, those who rig elections, intimidate the opposition, or cancel the democratic process by fiat after winning an election are despots. Remember that Saddam is a democratically elected president if we use lax terms. As despots, they harm both their nation and ourselves, so having them think twice before ordering a genocide isn’t an entirely bad thing.
In part this problem exists due to unwillingness to redraw Congress of Berlin borders, set in place to divide native peoples and govern more easily, while today, plenty of ethnic cleansing could be reduced by consolidating ethnicities across national borders (see: Kurdish People). An idealistic solution, of course.
I should just note that the person who made the murder 6 million comment was Comrade Didymus Noel Edwin Mutasa who is Secratary for External Relations in the Zimbabwe’s Politburo.
Here is a link to members of the Zimbabwe’s Politburo and Central Commitee. I didn’t know they had one of those before. No wonder they’re in trouble.
If I were to look through those images and vote for the person who most looked like they wanted to kill 6 million people I wouldn’t even put Comrade Mutasa at the top of the list, here’s my top 4:
At #1
Comrade Goche
#2
Comrade Malinga
#3
Comrade Hove
#4
Comrade Mutasa
As a comparison here are pictures of the leading people at the “discussion about the final solution of the Jewish question which took place in Berlin, am Grossen Wannsee No. 56/58 on 20 January 1942″. Their “solution” was to kill 11 million people.
SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann
Chief of the security police Reinhard Heydrich
Reich Ministry of Justice Roland Freisler
has anyone here ever heard of self-determination? each nation has the right to pursue its own goals. if there is something disagreeable to us, it doesnt mean it is disagreeable to everyone else. if something truly atrocious occurs, it is not america’s place to say it is wrong. let the world community judge. let it take action. i believe it would have taken action if it werent for bush’s blundering arrogance.
Self determination? Which ‘self’ would that be? Why do the ‘rights’ of a collective organisation to slaughter people trump the rights of an individual NOT to be slaughtered? What about their self determination?
Edwin is nothing less than an apologist for tyranny and moral relativism. If I see Edwin being gang raped in an alley, perhaps I should just keep walking and do nothing. After all, the gang is a collective expressing its self determination and Edwin is just an individual and individuals do not have self determination, right? Any way, who am I to say Edwin finds being gang raped disagreeable? Just because I think it would be, it doesnt mean it is disagreeable to everyone else. If something truly atrocious occurs, it is not my place to say it is wrong, isn’t that so, Edwin?
actually I am a 15 year old who you have just verbally assaulted. i hope that comes with a punishment…