Bush seeks sanctions on Zimbabwe after election

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Saturday said he was seeking U.S. sanctions against the "illegitimate" government of Zimbabwe, calling Friday's election by President Robert Mugabe's government a "sham."

"Given the Mugabe regime's blatant disregard for the Zimbabwean people's democratic will and human rights, I am instructing the secretaries of State and Treasury to develop sanctions against this illegitimate government of Zimbabwe and those who support it," Bush said in a statement.

He also said he would press for U.N. action, including an arms embargo.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080628/ts_nm/zimbabwe_usa_dc_1

[Botany]

1. Fuck you W

[Zynx]

9. I hate the fucker, but Mugabe does need to be removed.

[madeline_con]

14. Let's remove DUH-bya first, then police the world. n/t

[crikkett]

2. as usual: day late/dollar short.

sigh.

[John Q. Citizen]

3. This is insane.

[polichick]

4. PROJECTION yet again!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. We all know how opposed he is to "sham" elections...

[polichick]

6. Does he really not know that he's as "illegitimate" as Mugabe??

[grytpype]

7. Maybe we should invade them and give them freedom.

Oh wait, they don't have any oil and they're poorer than dogshit.

[awoke_in_2003]

8. Pot, meet kettle. nt

[ladjf]

10. Sanctions my ass. What a crock! "Sanctions" mean we will do

nothing while posturing to do something. Bush is as bad a Mugabe. Why wasn't his election sanctioned?

[AlinPA]

11. So I suppose Bush** will do what he can to starve them out or cut distribution of medicine and

medical supplies.

[ladjf]

12. Sanctions my ass. What a crock! "Sanctions" mean we will do

nothing while posturing as though we are doing something. Bush's elections were illegitimate. Those should have been sanctioned.

[Gman]

13. The US should have had sanctions after 2000 and 2004

we have no bidness telling anyone how to run elections, not even Zimbabwe as extreme as that sounds.

[ohio2007]

15. New US sanctions may come in two weeks:

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe attends the opening of the 11th African Union Summit in the Sinai resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. The United States may be ready to announce new US diplomatic and economic sanctions on Mugabe and his regime in "a week or two," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Monday.
(AFP/Cris Bouroncle)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080630/pl_afp/zimbabwevoteuswhousesanctions

Now thats something congress should have no problem rubber stamping...
right ?