Mugabe: It's the UK's fault!

Your recollection is off, quelle surprise.

Iraq had a population of about 24 million as the war began. Best numbers on refugees is about a million displaced internally, and about a million and a half left the country. That is a serious issue for Iraq, as some of that represents a brain drain of their middle class.

But about two and a half million fled from about 24 million is around a tenth, not a half.

DR

What have figures from Iraq got to do with people fleeing Zimbabwe? You might as well have told us the price of cod in Iceland, it would have been just as relevant.
 
Indeed. It's pretty shocking how much Mugabe was allowed to get away with by the South African government. :(

Not really they probably felt they owed him favors from the fight agaist apartheid days and he has a lot of overthrowing the white rulers points. As a result he is not someone the various other leaders in that area will criticize lightly.
 
What have figures from Iraq got to do with people fleeing Zimbabwe? You might as well have told us the price of cod in Iceland, it would have been just as relevant.
My response was to AUP commenting on Iraq.
puppycow said:
One might have thought the same thing about the tyrant Saddam Hussein. In fact some people said just that. I'm wary of anyone who says that we would be greeted as liberators, or it would be a cakewalk.
AUP said:
I think it's a lot different to Iraq. IIRC half the population has fled already.
As I read that, AUP was commenting that half the population of Iraq had fled. What you are saying is that he was saying "half the population of Zimbabwe has fled." Is that it?

DR
 
Much of the army still support him and zimbarwe is landlockec. None of the countries around it are going to react to well to people trying to transit a militry force through their country.

Last time I looked the Zimbabwe army was nothing to write home about.
The real problems with a military solution is not military, but political.
 
Last time I looked the Zimbabwe army was nothing to write home about.
The real problems with a military solution is not military, but political.

By african standards it is fairly good. We wouldn't be looking at sierra leone style walkover.
 
Zimbabwe would be better withouth Robert Mugabe. Robert Mugabe is a racist homophobe and a megalomaniac. Robert Mugabe is a dictator with a huge ego.
 

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