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While I agree with most of the material passed on I may not be in agreement with all. However there is much we can learn from some that we disagree with. Remember it was once thought that the earth was flat.

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Maybe it is time we went looking for weapons of mass destruction in Zimbabwe. This man who has wrecked the economy of his country is also responsible for the murder of many white farmers.
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Applause as dictator blames Britain and US for Zimbabwe collapse

By Hilary Clarke in Rome
(Filed: 18/10/2005)

President Mugabe drew applause at a United Nations conference on hunger yesterday when he said Britain and the United States were to blame for his country's economic collapse.

Mr. Mugabe called Tony Blair and George W Bush "the unholy alliance of the millennium".

He then compared the two world leaders to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and accused them of interfering in the domestic affairs of countries such as his own. Mr. Mugabe made his attack after a speech in which he patted himself on the back for the "long overdue" land reforms started five years ago in which land was forcibly taken from white farmers. The reforms sent the economy, which once provided food for the region, into a tail-spin, leaving it dependent on international aid for survival.The US alone has donated almost $300 million (£166 million) in food aid to Zimbabwe since 2002. Mr. Mugabe said that "if charity comes our way we will use it" but that "we don't need America and we don't need Britain".

Mr. Mugabe makes his point at the World Food Day

Four million Zimbabweans, a third of the population, now need rations from the World Food Programme to stay alive.

One delegate who did not clap Mr. Mugabe was the American ambassador to the food agencies in Rome, Tony Hall.

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