I doubt many of us will defend the man, yet someone is doing just that.
Such as he have always existed sometimes put in place by the British or Americans.
Of late propped up by China, as are the dreadful people in the country we once called Burma.
Why? it looks so easy the pain he inflicts on his own country so very bad removing him an act full of justice.
South Africa a nation built on a fight for freedom despite its heated words of late has turned a blind eye to the deaths of so many people and stands convicted of a crime against them supporting this mad criminal.
So very many Robert Mugabe's have been propped up by nations wishing to use the pain of their victims you just have to ask why we even bother with a UN.
And why we pretend humanity matters more than power to so very many.

Mugabe has made his own grave and the people have allowed him to do it for the whole of the country.
Not all of the people but most.
The christian churches sent out the missionaries and they got mostly rejected and much of christian revival failed. The demon powers ended up with country and power over the people.
Mugabe made it worse a few years back by telling the witchdoctors they could do what they wanted to do...and so it happened that the evil spirit powers grew and now bloodbath is on the horizon.
We need to pray against Mugabe and the demon powers.
Maybe the UN might also wake up and send in the troops and save the nation.
You know why Africa is called the dark continent?
Because all of the fallen spirit activity the people open themselves up too.

Dear Belly,

We can't even begin to imagine the horrors
that these tyrants inflict on their own people.
You'd think the world would learn something
from the terrors of the past - to not allow
people like Mugabe to stay in power.

In the UN charter there is the seventh principle
that says the UN won't interfere in a country's
'internal affairs.' Surely this could be amended -
when the 'internal affairs,' are responsible for
the destruction of human lives?

I listened to Nelson Mandela's speech on television
last night and hoped that something will be done,
and soon.

Belly – Its all very simple you see it’s a case of the loopy left triumphing again! The same can be said for the perils of Burma and the horn of Africa.

We can talk all we like in the mean time away from the camera hundreds of millions die and suffer due to the inactions of countries like Australia.

The reason most of Africa says nothing especially south Africa is because Mugabe helped south Africa fight those “nasty” white people. So now they have a “debt” to him. The ANC and Mugabe are like 2 peas in the pob!

It sure is a shame that Mugabe is not white because if he was you would have the likes of the do gooder hordes like Bob Geldof, Oprah Winfrey and countless others jumbing up and down about racism. But alas he is just another black guy inflicting suffering on millions of other black people so whats new?

The only person who would have the guts to do anything to alleviate the suffering of these people would be the likes of George Bush and John Howard. But we all saw what happened in Iraq when we went in there and in the process saved millions of lives and helped bring Iraq back onto the straight and narrow didn’t we. Critisim from every direction!!

Sadly the world is full of idiots and the idiots prefer wind bagging and empty gestures from cowardly politicians then people who actually go out there and risk there credibility to make this would a better place for all.

Suffer the little children!

East Times,

You are absolutely correct. The soft-left will whine about how awful it is that they have to watch mugabes thugs bash and kill supporters of Morgan Tsvangarai and the MDC. Once it stops being news they will forget it. The left has no answers to problems like this. Some people are even stupid enough to suggest that more "laws" would be useful.

There is nothing that can be done without exerting serious financial or military pressure on the regime. Financial pressure is an imprecise tool and much of the pressure will be passed on to the people of Zimbabwe who can least afford it. And military pressure is obviously a no go area for the soft-left. So instead of doing something about it, they form committees to discuss how awful the situation is. In this way they can register their disapproval and absolve themselves of the guilt of knowing they could help but are unwilling to do so.

What is truly ridiculous is that Mugabe's rein of terror is far less bloody than Saddam's repression of his people. Same with the Taliban, who were way worse than Zanu PF and the JOC.

There are no neat solutions without cost in these situations, but to do nothing, as the soft-left would have us do, is just not acceptable.

1 x 2000lb bomb at his next rally should do it. Someone tell me why they don't?. No one will miss him. No one will care.