Robert Mugabe's Speech at the UN's FAO: Blasts Bush & Bl

[AbdiWahab252]

Angry Mugabe speech draws cheers
Hugo Chavez and Robert Mugabe
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez congratulates Mr Mugabe on his speech
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has drawn applause for a speech denouncing Britain's Tony Blair and US President George Bush at a UN event in Rome.

Mr Mugabe described the leaders as "unholy men" at talks on food policy.

The US accuses Mr Mugabe of starving his people and has said his presence at the food summit is "disheartening".

Mr Mugabe defended his land reforms that have seen thousands of farmers evicted and said rich nations' farm subsidies were "crippling" the poor.

The Rome conference is being held to mark the 60th anniversary of the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO).

Though officially banned from travelling to EU countries, Mr Mugabe is allowed to visit them when on UN business.


Is this the world we desire? A world of giants and international terrorists who use now their state muscle in order to intimidate us
Robert Mugabe

The US ambassador to the FAO, Tony Hall, said he was amazed the organisation had invited a leader "who has done so much to hurt his own people".

"Food has been used as a weapon," Mr Hall said.

Zimbabwe is struggling to feed an estimated 3.8 million people in the rural areas, and has to import at least 37,000 tons of maize a week.

'Colonial injustices'

Mr Mugabe used his speech to lambast President Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose governments have been among his severest critics.

"Must we allow these men, the two unholy men of our millennium, who in the same way as Hitler and Mussolini formed [an] unholy alliance, form an alliance to attack an innocent country?" asked Mr Mugabe, apparently referring to Iraq.

"The voice of Mr Bush and the voice of Mr Blair can't decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in Venezuela, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq," he said.

Mr Mugabe said his land reforms, which enabled the government to seize hundreds of farms owned mostly by white Zimbabweans, had been part of a process to correct colonial injustices.

He blamed agricultural subsidies offered to farm produce from developed countries for crippling "the development of agriculture in developing countries".

Delegates applauded Mr Mugabe at the end of his speech.

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

Mugabe can make all the speeches he wants. Won't repair his destroyed economy or feed his starving people. He is a loser who is trying to destablize the environment because he has no feasible political solution to improve his own states affairs. The ol' shift the blame tactic. But you know what? In just doesn't matter what Mugabe, Chavez, Castro, Qadafi and men of that ilk have to say. All they can do is talk. If Chavez is so sympathetic to Mugabe, let him send food to Zimbabwe.

[AbdiWahab252]

I sense he pissed u off. I find his speeches to be entertaining

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

OK, the misfit crew is entertaining. You're right about that.

[guledy]

Mugabe was once a bona fide leader of his nation but unfortunately he got the disease that afflicts many african leaders,the disease of wanting to be leader for life.He has been using every trick in the book to retain his leadership but all that he has achieved is to turnish the reputation he once had.
Mad Mac,you haven't been reading the news of late,gaddafi is getting to be a good friend to the west.

[qudhac-m]

I like the part of the Unholy alliance leading immoral soldiers.

[Dhaga Bacayl]

Another black African loser blaming the white men for his misfortune in life. When will this stop. Zimbabwe was supposed to be the new political benchmark of the continent instead they’re following the same dark path like the rest them .

[kambuli]

Somehow a song came to my mind which started;

Young Smidh maa magayn,
Rodesia ma moodeen,
Mosambique Angola....

Something like that....

[AbdiWahab252]

Kambuli that was sung by Magool in the 1970s

[kambuli]

Abdiwahaab,

Thanks I believe it was older. Maybe 1959, Before our independence. Isn't it about that?(Gumeysiga).

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

IF Mugabe had been a political leader in 1943:


Angry Mugabe speech draws cheers
Germany's Hitler congratulates Mr Mugabe on his speech
President Robert Mugabe has drawn applause for a speech denouncing Britain's Churchill and US President Roosevelt at an event in Rome.

Mr Mugabe described the leaders as "unholy men" at talks on global policy.

The US accuses Mr Mugabe of starving his people and has said his presence at the summit is "disheartening".

Mr Mugabe defended his land reforms that have seen thousands of farmers evicted and said rich nations' farm subsidies were "crippling" the poor.


Is this the world we desire? A world of giants and international terrorists who use now their state muscle in order to intimidate us said
Robert Mugabe. Look at how the imperialists behave now. Bombing whole cities as they are doing in Germany, and trying to do in Japan. Launching vicious porpaganda campaigns against the German leadership who are simply trying to correct the injustices of the treaty of Versailles. How can men such as Churchill and Roosevelt, imperialist leaders, talk of human rights at all?

'Colonial injustices'

Mr Mugabe used his speech to lambast President Rosevelt and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill, whose governments have been among his severest critics.

"Must we allow these men, the two unholy men of our millennium, who in the same way as the French and British in the first world war formed [an] unholy alliance, form an alliance to attack an innocent country?" asked Mr Mugabe, apparently referring to Germany.

"The voice of Mr Roosevelt and the voice of Mr Churchill can't decide who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in South America, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in the Middle East," he said.

Mr Mugabe said his land reforms, which enabled the government to seize hundreds of farms owned mostly by whites, had been part of a process to correct colonial injustices.

He blamed agricultural subsidies offered to farm produce from developed countries for crippling "the development of agriculture in developing countries".

Delegates applauded Mr Mugabe at the end of his speech. The US and Great Britain, which maintain that the German government is guilty of war crimes, have been under enormous pressure to change their policy towards Germany and release their colonial possessions.

[AbdiWahab252]

Mad... Good attempt.

But Robert "The Other Son of God" Mugabe has a point. Subsidies are killing off poor African farmers.

Go Mugabe

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

I'm not arguing against that. But he is, like any sly politician, taking a valid point and manipulating it for his own purposes. Ten years ago, subsidies were making things difficult for subsitence farmers in Africa. But Zimbabwes large farms were competing just fine because they had low labor costs to off-set the subsidies and were efficiently run. It is simply not debateable that Mugabes land redistribution campaign destroyed Zimbabwes farming industry. Mugabe is now simply trying to shift the blame for his failed policy. It won't help him though. The subsidies are driven by domestic politics in the countries where they take place. And nothing Robert Mugabe says is going to change that fact.