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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 08:38 PM
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Zimbabwe's voters told: choose Mugabe or you face a bullet
hey mr bu$h* where is your democracy crusade? what no outrage?

~snip~ The soldiers and ruling party militiamen herded the people of Rusape to an open field at the back of the local sports club and made their point crystal clear.

"Your vote is your bullet," a soldier told the terrified crowd.

Everyone knew what he meant.

"They are saying we will die if we don't vote for Robert Mugabe, that there will be war if we don't vote for Robert Mugabe," said a wary young woman holding a small child. Mugabe says it too in speeches across the land ahead of next week's run-off presidential election against the man who beat him in the first round, Morgan Tsvangirai.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/18/zimbabwe/print
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readmoreoften Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 08:44 PM
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1. Now that's a democracy!
I'd say that the candidates in that election are truly indistinguishable.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 08:51 PM
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3. it kinda makes choosing real easy
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 08:49 PM
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2. That's what Cheney said.
"If we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again -- that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States," Cheney said. "And then we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mindset, if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts and that we're not really at war. I think that would be a terrible mistake for us."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/07/cheney.terror/

Sneer is a great stinking turd of the BFEE.

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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-17-08 08:54 PM
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4. I've said it before: someone needs to murder Mugabe. The sooner the better.
A blood bath is coming. Best way to avoid it: kill those at the top.

The awful, brutal, truth.
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