is Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe the devil that he is potrayed in the international media?
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Yes, if not worse\n\nA friends family have been driven off their farm by Mugabe's thugs; the result is that more than 20 fanilies have lost the livelihood, the land is fallow and yet more hunger is added to the country\n\nMugabe has destroyed the infrastructure of what was a successful country with an established black middle class, independant judiciary and many other things
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Probably the person the chooser likes least. Zimbabwe is the pits.
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Nelson Mandela WAS the most famous but hello he isn't the president of S.A any longer. I think probably Robert Mugabe or thabo Mbeki.
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I'll say any country besides mine.  Stupid question.\n\nAmerica isn't a country.  It isn't even a continent.\n-----------------------------------------------------\nI've told you about this, mavops.............\n\nWhile former South African President Nelson Mandela, 85, scoffs at rumors of ill health, plans are being made by the nation's Communist Party to slaughter all whites in the country upon his death, G2B sources say. \n\nOne of the operations planned entails 70,000 armed black men "being transported to the Johannesburg city center within an hour" in taxicabs to attack whites. \n\nThe plans are variously dubbed "Operation Vula," "Night of the Long Knives," "Operation White Clean-up," "Operation Iron Eagle" and "Red October campaign." \n\nOperation "Our Rainy Day" was to be carried out after the death of Nelson Mandela and would have entailed blacks being transported to the largest cities in taxis. \n\nThe assailants were expected to "take over" fuel points and massacre whites. The attacks would lead to a coup. \n\nSources say most blacks in the country are aware of the plans. When racial disputes occur, blacks often tell whites, "Wait until Mandela dies.” \n\n"White people in South Africa can deny it to the end of the earth, but we are in real danger," one resident said. "This is no joke and any person with half a brain can see that this rumor has spiraled out of control." \n\nMany whites are now convinced a vicious campaign of ethnic cleansing will follow Mandela's death whenever it comes. Some are making preparations for retreats. \n\n"I have prepared myself and we have a gathering place where we can fortify for four weeks after Mandela’s death," said one white South African. "If nothing happens it will be a miracle." \n\nThe Red October campaign is allegedly a Communist plot to oust President Thabo Mbeki. Mbeki would be replaced by Cyril Ramaphosa. \n\n"I was starting to think I was going nuts!" said another white South Africa resident. "'Operation Uhuru' or 'Operation White Clean-up' is definitely no rumor. I spoke to someone who told me that some blacks in Zimbabwe have also confirmed that this 'event' will take place. My cousin stays on a farm in Mpumalanga, not too far from Johannesburg. A black police officer in that district told his white colleague that they are going to kill us like flies, and there is nothing we can do about it. And that they also don't care if we know." \n\nMeanwhile, Mandela, obviously aware of the growing rumors, last week assured the public he is well. \n\n"My health is all right," he told reporters in Cape Town. "I'm doing very well. Others have gone further and said I am on the eve of going to my grave. If that day comes, I will go and knock at the door of heaven. ... They will look at the list and say: 'Your name is not here ... can you try next door?'" \n\nConcern about Mandela's health surfaced last month when he canceled a scheduled meeting with visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. The former president was at the time relaxing on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. \n\nMandela joked that when his time comes, "I will look for a branch of the ANC (the ruling African National Congress) in that world (and) I'll join it." .....................\n\nPerhaps it IS a continent filled with animals.  Sounds like it to me.
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I think your question gives you an answer!\n\nThey must pressurise Mugabe to resign. And Mbeki must stop propping up his regime by giving him support.
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First of all, I don't think that's a fair assessment.  There are plenty of people who do in fact care very much about Africa and its people. UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders, CARE, and just about every AIDS group you can think of is involved over in Africa quite a lot.\n\nIf you mean "Why isn't Africa a higher priority for most of the world's goverments?" then I think you are hitting nearer the mark.  \n\nI'm no expert on Africa, but I think there's a couple of reasons why it doesn't peg a bit higher on the attention-o-meter insofar as the US is concerned.  \n\nHitherto, Africa hasn't had a whole lot to offer us.  Sounds harsh, I know, but it's the truth.  We are forced to deal with the Middle East because they are a big energy source, but if the oil wasn't there we wouldn't be either.  African oil is starting to become a market player now too, so some of our attention may be shifting towards that region.\n\nThe other main reason is the perception that Africa is a continent filled with people who simply cannot get their collective sh*t together.  It's brimming with petty dictatorships, bloody coups, transient goverments, unending civil wars and ethnic violence.  In the international arena there just isn't anyone reliable to deal with on a nation-to-nation level.     Our news stories have left me at least with the view that Africa is a limitless sinkhole into which all the world's largesse could be poured without doing much more than fattening up a corrupt few at the top and financing more armies to fight in the wars and/or commit the heinous genocides we read about all too often.\n\nDo the African people suffer?  Of course they do!  Most of those organizations I listed at the top are all about addressing the suffering on the individual's level.  But until Africa starts to produce more responsible goverments, not too much will ever be done geopolitically to help them.
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No one is as perfect as the Western media portrays them.\nNelson Mandela was not a perfect man; he was presumably cheating on his wife; he went through a period when he wanted to kick out all whites from South Africa; he was a communist; he belonged to a party that condoned what some people call "terrorism" (others call it "freedom fighting"), and in fact was labeled a terrorist by the US government during his fight against the apartheid government.\nHowever, the fact remains that when he when he was released from prison he was spokesman for peace and unity in South Africa when most blacks were nearly blind with hatred against whites who had starved, abused and murdered blacks for decades.  \nI have spent time in South Africa and Zimbabwe and I currently live in Zambia.  I have never, heard anyone speak negatively of Mandela; ever.  He remains a hero to the African people and to many people elsewhere.
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He's a puppet of the extremist muslim clerics.. He caters to the lowest common denominators in his political party with his saber-rattling rhetoric.. He promotes anti-semitism and re-writing history.. He's the last leader in the free world I'd want to be in charge of nuclear weapons..
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It is not so much a case of the government we deserve as it is a case of getting the government we are too lazy to stop(in most cases) World wide governmental corruption, the western " Cult of Personality" and indolence all lead to this. With the way that any one running for office in the west is scrutinized, you must ask yourself what kind of person puts themselves and their families through it. The answer of course is egomanaical numbskulls that toe what ever party line they are told to toe. These are just talking heads anyway. Outside of the west it seems, largely, that it is the rule of the gun. Most of the current African leadership are little more that corrupt tribal chiefs and thugs interested only in their own enrichment. Sound cynical? Maybe, but take a really good look around.
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The man has something very rare in today's society honesty with integrity! He reports truth not only as he views it also allowing decent people who are often censored because they have been afflicted by major corporate corruption and wrongful government intervention!Nit-witts want to spin him into things that are not even remotely verifiable!Who do you think the evil demon is?
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Toughie.  I'm going to go with Mugabe though.  At least Bush does his evil under the guise of liberating Iraq.
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You dont care to know what I think about him,,,but here's what he thinks about us,,including demos, liberals and the media,,,hmm media,,I wonder why they never report this???\n\nhttp://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2005/10/the_world_witho.html\n\nhttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378398063&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\n\nYo Fazand,,,respect other countries they way they respect ours like hijacking planes,and other lil famous terroristic ploys. But we wont mention terror, will just settle for the insults like being called infidels, devils and satanists by yours truly.
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Does it ever occur to you that the media has portrayed the world and the events in it falsely, that your opinion is based on lies and garbled information geared to an insane agenda?  Do you really think that such a vast portion of the world's population hates US government because of propaganda by the so-called terrorists and not because of heinous acts of gross TERRORISM committed by the US government and its protectorate TERRORIST state of Israel?
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The devil (but just bcs somebody else already typed george bush)
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What evidence???  He believes that Tony Blair, the British royal family and various other world leaders are alien lizards.  Because they haven't bothered to deny this and they haven't sued him, he sees this as evidence that what he says is true.\n\nCan you imagine what the reaction of the media would be if Tony Blair sued David Icke for saying that he was a lizard?  How would Tony Blair prove that he wasn't a lizard?  \n\nDavid Icke is an entertaining lunatic.  99% of the time he is a harmless lunatic but the overtones of anti-semitism (the tired old cliches about a worldwide Jewish conspiracy) are disturbing.
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This is a tough question.\n\nI sponsor a child in Zimbabwe through World Vision and often feel this part of the world just does not get enough press.\n\nWhat should the USA or other countries do?\n\nWho would take over if Mugabe was gone...would this person be any better?  As I recall Mugabe was pretty good in his younger days but has since gone I think, insane!\n\nIf the USA sends troops people get mad at the USA for doing that.  If the USA does not send troops people get mad too.\nFrankly I think the USA troops are pretty busy at the moment.\n\nIf we send AID where does it go?  Do the people get it or does it line Mugabe's pocket?\n\nIt really is a heart breaking situation.  \n\nYes the USA sent troops to the middle east.  Yes part of the reason behind that situation is oil.  But oil is important to the world economy!  If oil goes sky high the price of everything goes up.  \n\nThink about it...pick ANY product.  Lets just say a can of sting beans.  The farmers need oil to run the machinery that harvests the beans.  The beans go on a truck fueled by gas to a plant where they are processed using energy to run the equipment there.  All the people at the plant drive cars to work.  The cans the beans are put in are made somewhere using energy too...and they arrive at the green bean plant by truck too.  Then the canned green beans get loaded onto a truck AGAIN and shipped to a grocery wear house where they are unloaded by fork lifts run on fuel and put into other trucks going to different stores...all this uses lots of OIL!\n\nSo if the price of oil goes up so does the price of a can of green beans or anything else you buy.\n\nNo doubt about it world oil prices are very important.\n\nBut people are important too.\n\nIt is an impossible situation.
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He is a puppet of the New World Order of which his father, Donald, Dick and many other elite are members of.\n\nSo Yes!