Mugabe Finally Gets Noticed By US Media

[LoneGunman]

In the last few days, the reports of Morgan Tsvangirai
and other opposition leaders being tortured and beaten -
and Mugabe's response (that the world can
'go hang') - is getting a LOT of airplay on local US media.

Hopefully this time, the West will start turning the screws
against this madman.

here's a UK article from a few days back.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,,2032354,00.html

 

[caspa]

hope the yanks actuly do something!!

 

[telkomsuig]

Zim is of no strategic imporatnace to the US. And after Somalia no US president will risk sending troops into a peace keeping mission in AFrica.

 

[JStrike]

What would they do exactly?

 

[Bageloo]

Zim is of no strategic imporatnace to the US.

yep, no oil, no diamonds, no gold, just good old tobacco.

 

[killadoob]

hmmm tobacco, as widley used as OIL

im pretty sure the US gov could make billions by going into zim

imagine how much money is in tobacco? i think around 40-50% of the world smokes

i would around 900million to well over a billion ppl smoke

load of mullah to be made

 

[BobbyMac]

According to the World Health Organisation, there were 1.142 Billion smokers world wide in 1995

in 2006, the world Health Organisation claimed that there were 1.3 Billion smokers world wide, of which 1 billion are presumed to be male.

http://www.ash.org.uk/html/international/pdfs/globaltrends.pdf

 

[Bageloo]

hmmm tobacco, as widley used as OIL

im pretty sure the US gov could make billions by going into zim

imagine how much money is in tobacco? i think around 40-50% of the world smokes

i would around 900million to well over a billion ppl smoke

load of mullah to be made

If Bush was after tobacco he would invade Brasil, besides tobacco is a relatively cheap commodity even he would not be able to justify the invasion

 

[Pitbull]

They have DIAMONDS... and allot of it too

 

[OhGats]

Is there still a tobacco crop in Zim? surely bob's brilliant policies have caused the cessation of planting anything by commercial famers (the few that are left?)

 

[icyrus]

Zim has something that everybody wants, something more valuable than oil, something that cannot be made or replaced. Land. But the US are not in need of more land at this point so zim is safe for now.

 

[Skeptik]

It might have something to do with the movie "Last King of Scotland" winning an award.

There's nothing like actually seeing a dictator on the big screen to spur the Americans into action.

Mugabe should have kept quiet.