Dunno. Do they have oil or anything else I can use over there?

Iraq
Oil - production: 2.11 million bbl/day (2007 est.)
Oil - proved reserves: 115 billion bbl (1 January 2007 est.)

Iran
Oil - production: 4.15 million bbl/day (2006 est.)
Oil - proved reserves: 132.5 billion bbl based on Iranian claims (1 January 2006 est.)

Zimbabwe
Oil - production: 0 bbl/day (2005 est.)
Oil - proved reserves: 0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.)

B: unlike the Bosnians, the Zimbabwians are not white, and therefore, nobody gives a fuck.

What I want to know is why many other leaders in Africa are so leery to condemn Mugabe?

So, do they have Malaria or TB or HIV/AIDS?

Maybe Bill Gates could do something ...

Doesn't Marxism and Nationalism go hand in hand?

there were whites in zimbabwe....we're called rhodesians and we left twenty years ago when the pc community sold my mothers country to a bunch of thugz....if we shot mugabe would it really change african politics for the better...I say we do it but there's no gurantee that that country will be anymore but another musical dictator baskiet case of a country

Probably because the American public generally doesn't give a fuck. If there was a popular sentiment that we should be intervening, you can bet she'd be leading the charge.

The "pc" community doesn't like virtual genocide. Assuming you have any connection to Zimbabwe*, formerly Rhodesia, your family deserved to get booted out.

*Of course, you are becoming well known for posting complete fabrications on Slog. I'll believe it when I see it.

No.

(This has been another edition of simple answers to stupid questions)

I don't like this assumption for two reasons.

First, popular sentiment is not always reliable, and we trust politicians to overrule it where appropriate. The public can be coerced. See: Iraq war.

Second, this is sort of the same idea, but she isn't exactly leading the charge to end that war now that public sentiment has turned against it.

As for why Hillary isn't ending the war, that would be because (1) among her base is a particular constituency that actually still likes the war; and (2) she's afraid to take a strong stance that could later be used by right-wingers to say she "sold us out". (Which is kind of related to the cowardice that led her to vote yes on it in the first place).

and whats all this about fabrications...I think you have me confused with someone else

I'm in the Army, and I'm so tired of hearing idiots who have never served and will never serve go on about how the U.S. should use our troops to solve human rights problems in this country or that country. You want to send U.S. soldiers to Zimbabwe? Why don't you enlist, do a couple of tours in Iraq, and then tell me about how you think the U.S. should get involved in another nightmarish foreign quagmire?

Charles wasn't serious. This was just reminder number 356,915,231 that Clinton voted for the war authorization. Obama supporters keep repeating it the way devout Catholics repeat their Hail Marys. It helps them ignore the fact their candidate has peaked already and will be way down the far slope by the time of the convention.

Thank you for volunteering to serve our country, by the way. There are many of us who think that patriotism and liberalism aren't mutually exclusive. We just don't normally have the loudest voices around here.