In UN Speech, Zimbabwe's Mugabe Lashes Into US, Britain
So Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe and semi-international pariah (rightly so) says, at the 62nd UN General Assembly Debate, what most of the world thinks of President George W. Bush but hasn’t had the testicles to say. For the international community to be shown as craven weaklings in this way by a freedom fighter gone bad is shameful.
But don’t worry, the international media will ignore his accurate observations on US and European hypocrisy in regard to Africa. The international media will ignore his accurate observations on US hypocrisy in regard to human rights, international law, Iraq, Afghanistan (implicitly Israel, Iran and Palestine) the UN and it’s treatment of it’s own people.
Instead, if they report his speech at all (while insisting that history is dead and we should "move forward") they will concentrate on his own hypocrisy as regards the shameful treatment of his own people while studiously ignoring the hypocrisy of a much more powerful and dangerous man. As ever, the messenger is considered more important than the message.
Excerpt from Mugabe’s speech at the 62nd UN General Assembly Debate:
“Let Mr. Bush read history correctly. Let him realise that both personally and in his representative capacity as the current President of the United States, he stands for this "civilisation" which occupied, which colonised, which incarcerated, which killed. He has much to atone for and very little to lecture us on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. His hands drip with innocent blood of many nationalities.
He still kills. He kills in Iraq. He kills in Afghanistan. And this is supposed to be our master on human rights?
He imprisons. He imprisons and tortures at Guantanamo. He imprisoned and tortured at Abu Ghraib. He has secret torture chambers in Europe. Yes, he imprisons even here in the United States, with his jails carrying more blacks than his universities can ever enroll. He even suspends the provisions of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Take Guantanamo for example; at that concentration camp international law does not apply. The national laws of the people there do not apply. Laws of the United States of America do not apply. Only Bush's law applies. Can the international community accept being lectured by this man on the provisions of the universal declaration of human rights? Definitely not!
Mr President, We are alarmed that under his leadership, basic rights of his own people and those of the rest of the world have summarily been rolled back. America is primarily responsible for rewriting core tenets of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We seem all guilty for 9/11. Mr. Bush thinks he stands above all structures of governance, whether national or international.
At home, he apparently does not need the Congress. Abroad, he does not need the UN, international law and opinion. This forum did not sanction Blair and Bush's misadventures in Iraq. The two rode roughshod over the UN and international opinion. Almighty Bush is now coming back to the UN for a rescue package because his nose is bloodied! Yet he dares lecture us on tyranny. Indeed, he wants us to praise him! We say No to him and encourage him to get out of Iraq. Indeed he should mend his ways before he clambers up the pulpit to deliver pieties of democracy.”
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