Milsevic.

[flip-flop]

Milosavage is dead and Hussein is being tried, so one by one the despots are falling..........so, isn't it time we turned out attention to the racist undemocratic murdering thieving slime ball that is Mugabe???

In the space of a comparatively short time he has turned a very prosperous country in Rhodesia into a wasteland. A truly horrible specimen - let's take the b4stard out!

[bill barlow]

I agree with your comments about Mugabe, but the Rhodesians "fought" for their independance and elected Mugabe. Let them sort it out. It is none of our business.

[noxlumos]

Very true.B4stard though the man undoubtedly is I don't think it's appropriate to go wading into yet another country trying to make thing better. Nor do I think it's very likely since they don't have any oil or are not strategically important.

If people wish to topple a Dictator, unless you want a repetition of the scenes we see in Iraq, then you'd best leave it to them to bring it about.

[Englishbird]

The latest Zimbabwean 'elections' were dubious by any standards. I can't believe Mugabe has been allowed to get away with what he is doing. However the one government that needs to stand up to him is the South African one, and until they make that decision there is little anyone else can do.

Besides, I don't believe there is oil under Zimbabwe, so what would the American and British Government stand to gain by intervening?

It breaks my heart as I absolutely love Zimbabwe, it's a stunning country, I hope I get to go again one day.

[rogerthomas]

Who is Milo Savage, is he related to Blackburn's Robbie Savage?

[Drisgirl]

rogerthomas is back - not to proffer an opinion - oh no, not just to pick people up on their spelling errors but their grammar as well

What would be do without you roger?Just when we though it was safe to have the odd typo - you appear!

I'll have to be on my toes again:)

[joko]

i think the 'savage' comment was a deliberate play on his name. doh!

[Drisgirl]

Youre right joko on reflection but does roger know this?He probably does but I'm so used to him being an AB monitor I failed to see he was being funny - sorry rog:)

[joko]

no drisgirl, i think rog thought it was a mispelling and was trying to be sarky

[flip-flop]

I just assumed rogerthomas was acknowledging my play on his name being that he was a savage: surely nobody is daft enough to think I'd mis-spelt his name when I'd put the correct name in the question header. Would they?

[flip-flop]

.....although have just realised I'd missed the 'O' in his name in the header. Whoops.

[feelap]

id rather see George Dubya in the dock before mugabe.

[DMA]

Is it safe for me to comment on evil dictatoes. I got awarded negative marks on the Milo-Savage debate on another thread.

I am a great believer in evil being wiped out.

I am sorry if this upsets any liberal thinkers, but innocent people shud not suffer the way they do in life at the hands of people who shud not be allowed a life if they go on the way they do..

Mugabe is just one example of many.

He will die of "natuaral causes" then there will be another and another.

I am not an advocator of the Big Brother society where America decide who lives and who dies and who is allowed to become rich BUT I am an advocator in getting rid of evil.

Is there a way of getting rid of Magabe for good without a similar replacement coming in his place.

[Se7en]

Hear Hear DMA.

I have friends who have relatives from there and they just want rid of this monster

[noxlumos]

DMA I think everyone is all for ridding the world of Mugabe like characters, the problem just is how without ending up in an Iraq like situation and who decides whose "bad enough" to be popped off? I mean most people would almost unanimously get rid of the likes of Hitler and Stalin etc but what about when all the Iraqi's etc wanted to depose Tony Blair and Georgie boy because of the situation in Iraq and the huge number of civilian casualties they have caused? Would that not be ok? Who decides? Unless you have a world Govt (God forbid), with folk from all over the place poking their oar in other countries business then you'll never be able to fairly decide whose good and whose bad, it's all a matter of perspective and culture and much as I would personally like to see Mugabe hung drawn and quartered metaphorically, by definition, it has to be a civil removal or you'll just end up wth another Iraq.

[bernardo]

No - because it is an internal matter for Zimbabwe and does not involve the threat of external aggression or expansionism. The election in Zimbabwe was rigged but Mugabe and ZANU-PF would probably have won anyway because the opposition MDC collapsed.

[johnlambert]

bernardo is correct, and we must remember that the UK has a colonial past and, if we go in there (for even the most noble of reasons) with guns blazing we will be accused of trying to colonise again with a veiw to regaining the British empire

[patc7641]

History and winners determine people who are war criminals. Look at Bush and Blair, history will not be kind to them, going into an unjustified war (1st it was Al Quaeda, then WMD, then liberation), thus causing the deaths of 10's if not hundreds of thousands of civilians and soldiers. Is this not a crime? As a nation we are not galvanised by this shocking state of affairs, but are happy to go and poke our noses into other countries affairs. I agree, Mugabe, and many other countries have poor human rights/ dictatorships, does this mean we police the world? The Americans would like to. What about China? shocking human rights, war with them? No chance, cant bully them, nothing to gain. Mugabe?, nah, no positive outcome there. So before we go on about taking other *4******* out, lets look at our own governements, therefore ours, we elected them, policies, and get that right.