Mugabe mocks US, Britain on debt, riots

[Redeemed]

HARARE – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe yesterday chided his harshest critics the United States and Britain saying they should focus their energies on the debt crisis and civil riots troubling the two countries respectively instead of meddling in his country.

Mugabe, in power for the last three decades, accuses former colonial power Britain and the US of meddling in Zimbabwe’s affairs and leading a chorus of Western nations in imposing sanctions on the country to end his rule as punishment for seizing white-owned commercial farms to resettle blacks.

The 87-year-old former guerilla leader teased the two countries, saying they should now tell the world whether their problems were a result of lack of freedoms, a charge that Western countries frequently accuse Mugabe of.

“And now that they are experiencing problems which have dogged other countries before, and they have in those circumstances accused those countries of lacking freedom, let them tell us what’s happening, whether it’s lack of freedom or it is something else,” Mugabe said during a speech to mark national defence forces day.

The US is grappling with a massive debt problem and the Democrats and Republicans agreed to an eleventh hour deal to raise the country’s debt ceiling and cut government spending last week, but markets have taken a battering after credit rating agency Standard & Poor downgraded the US for the first time since 1917.

Across the Atlantic, Britain has been engulfed rioting and looting in London and beyond as hooded youths set fire to cars and buildings, smashed shop windows and hurled bottles and stones at police in the country’s worst unrest in decades.

“Britain I understand is on fire, London especially and we hope they can extinguish their fire, pay attention to their internal problem and to that fire which is now blazing all over and leave us alone,” Mugabe chuckled, for a moment deviating from his prepared speech. “We do not have any fire here and we do not want them to create unnecessary problems in our country.”

Western countries have maintained travel and financial sanctions on Mugabe over the last decade as punishment for human rights violations and election fraud.

Mugabe frequently berates Western countries, charging that they are working with their local proxies to re-colonise Zimbabwe for its vast untapped mineral wealth.

On Tuesday Mugabe accused NATO of acting like terrorist organisations Al Qaeda and the Taliban over the Western alliance’s bombing campaign in Libya which Mugabe said was a ploy to murder his friend and ally Muammar Gaddafi.

Yesterday the octogenarian leader said had a lot of work to do in dealing with the strife in Britain and seen previously in other European countries like Greece and Spain over economic hardships.

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[Mila]

I would bomb him just for this.

It would be fun.

 

[Kornhub]

He is a fine one to talk,screw the west viva Mugabe viva!

 

[Nothxkbi]

I would bomb him just for this.

It would be fun.

Now now that's not very nice. Why waste a perfectly good bomb. Rather feed him feet first into an industrial wood chipper pointed into a pig trough.

You get to see the expression on his face. The pigs get to eat. Profit.

 

[Mila]

Now now that's not very nice. Why waste a perfectly good bomb. Rather feed him feet first into an industrial wood chipper pointed into a pig trough.

You get to see the expression on his face. The pigs get to eat. Profit.

:twisted:

 

[daveza]

Of course Zim has no debt and as for violent protests, try it and you get a bullet in the head.

 

[dj_jyno]

Now now that's not very nice. Why waste a perfectly good bomb. Rather feed him feet first into an industrial wood chipper pointed into a pig trough.

You get to see the expression on his face. The pigs get to eat. Profit.

Shame, poor pigs. That can be considered animal cruelty, you know.

 

[BBSA]

Zimbabwe should implement sanctions against the UK, that will show them.

 

[Flanders]

He pulled a "TIA - oh wait..."

How predictable.

Just like certain smarmy idiots round here who get their knickers twisted in a frenzy of excitement when something bad happens somewhere in the world other than the cluster**** that is Africa.

 

[Nothxkbi]

Shame, poor pigs. That can be considered animal cruelty, you know.