Couple of howlers from this article.
1)
Mr Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said Mr Mugabe
had unleashed a war after security agents ransacked its offices in Harare on Thursday.
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But it denied Mr Tsvangirai had gone into hiding and said he was "safe".
i.e. he is in hiding.
2)
Mr Mugabe, 84, came to power 28 years ago at independence
on a wave of optimism.
But in recent years Zimbabwe has been plagued by the
world's highest inflation, as well as acute food and fuel shortages.
The Western Media is making it sound like Mugabe didn't show that he was a bloodthirsty racist maniac of questionable mental stability until about seven or so years ago. If any of them had been paying attention, certain events would have made it quite obvious that he should never have been trusted. Perhaps genocide in Africa was deemed passe? The main problem isn't the confiscation of white-owned farms. That's one offense in a dictionary-length list off egregious examples of misrule. Mugabe is and always was despicable.
There's talk of giving the man a ceremonial post in the new government, and not "leaving him to dry" over accusations of human rights abuse. All he deserves is assurance that in deference to his age the execution will be relatively painless.
This is all a pipe dream of course. Mugabe was once a darling of the American Left, which makes the massive and absurd disaster there yet another thing we can hang, tangentially at least, around the neck of our own thrice-accursed and deranged leader Jimmy Carter. The hard-on that Mbeki gets for his old revolutionary idol was, and perhaps still is echoed in the memories of enough Western politicos that Mugabe will die a regrettably natural death. They even propose the now laughable idea that negotiations are the solution.
