Saturday, 28 June 2008

Let's go invade Zimbabwe

I need some help to understand this.

Why did the UK and the USA break with UN protocol to remove a despot called Saddam Hussain who we were told was committing grave human rights abuses against his own people? The pointing missiles at us, 45 minute claim was utter BS and we (and Doctor David Kelly) knew this at the time, but despite 2 million people on the streets of London to protest the war in Iraq, our Government went ahead and invaded another country.

What does Mugabe have to do to receive similar treatment?

I remember two very different conversations, months and 200 miles apart in the UK happening to me in year 2002. In London I met a man who had been tortured in the most horrible ways I have EVER heard for supporting the opposition and imprisoned on several occasions, one of them for doing something on a night when he was imprisoned in a police station so they knew he wasn't at the scene of the alliged crime, if there even was a crime. I met him outside Zimbabwe House on the Strand in London where protests have gone on for years. I told him not to return for his own safety and he said he wouldn't for a while, but he would have to save his friends and family.

I also had a female friend at uni in Leeds, who showed me a paradise residence which was the screensaver on her laptop. I said "that looks gorgeous, where is that?" she replied that is was her old house before Mugabe's militia came and stole in from her family because they were white and let the land go to ruin. Looking at this six years on...how has it come to this, the hyper-inflation and the starvation of millions has been ignored by policitions for ages.

So now after this weeks ridiculous election at last African nations, the president of South Africa, the EU, UN, my Queen and the living god that is Nelson Mandela can speak out about Robert Mugabe and his behaviour I ask this...why don't we just invade Zimbabwe?

Now this is a suggestions I am SURE two million people would not line the streets to oppose.

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