Mugabe calls Rice a 'slave'

[bemildred]

Mugabe is appealing to his "base" here.

Harare - President Robert Mugabe on Friday sharply criticised US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, saying she was a "slave" to white masters in Washington who had branded Zimbabwe an outpost of tyranny.

Launching the election campaign of his ruling party, Mugabe referred to Rice as "that girl born out of the slave ancestry, who should know from the history of slavery in America, from the president situation of blacks in America that the white man is not a friend".

"The white man is the slave master to her," said Mugabe in a two-hour speech launching the campaign of his Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) party for the March 31 parliamentary elections.

News24.com

[dave123williams]

1. I don't like Rice, but Mugabe is freakin' nuts; total racist opportunist.

[cliss]

2. Well, that's certainly hitting

a sore nerve.

Wasn't this exactly what Harry Belafonte said about Colon Bowel? I cringed when I read Belafonte's speech. There were lots of searing words.

Reporters wrote that Bowel smiled when he heard about Belafonte's speech. I wonder.....

[bemildred]

4. I expect Belafonte has more credibility (outside Zim) than Robert.

But, yeah, Harry said that.

[Demit]

3. He's no angel, for sure, but he's got a good argument in the article--

If Zimbabwe were indeed a tyranny, Mugabe argued, "the first person to lose his head would be Ian Smith", who led the white-minority government in Rhodesia, as Zimbabwe was called before independence in 1980.

"We have kept him and protected that head. He eats our food, lives in our home comfortably and is protected by our rules of law and order," said Mugabe.

Smith, who was prime minister from 1965 to 1979, lives on a farm outside Harare and has remained an outspoken critic of Mugabe.

"He enjoys the comfort of Zimbabwe, can travel... He writes books freely, against us even, and using that head, which, if we had been a tyrannical government, we would have long taken off," he added.

[donsu]

5. Mugabe speaks the truth about Rice

nt

[cobaindrain]

6. lol, that's kind of funny

[Jack Rabbit]

7. And Mugabe is a tyrant

When a neocon like Dr. Rice says that it's raining, one is advised to look outside to see if she's telling the truth.

In this case, she says that it's raining and, by Jove, it really is.