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Jack Straw Didn't See Mugabe In The Darkness
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UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw shook hands with Robert Mugabe in New York. Apparently it was "too dark" in the room, so he didn't know who he was
shaking hands with (or so he say) Judge for yourself, was it too dark (see picture) to recognize Mugabe?
BBC: Straw justifies Mugabe handshake
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has defended shaking hands with Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe and saying "nice to see you" when they met in New York.
...he made it clear he had not immediately recognised the much-criticised Zimbabwean president.
Shortly before the reception, in an address to the UN General Assembly, the Zimbabwean president accused US President George W Bush of behaving like God, and Tony Blair of being his prophet.
He said the US and the UK were "raining bombs and hell-fire on innocent Iraqis, purportedly in the name of democracy".
"We are now being coerced to accept and believe that a new political-cum-religious doctrine has arisen, namely that there is but one political God, George W Bush, and Tony Blair is his prophet."
Zimbabwe last year quit the Commonwealth after the country was suspended indefinitely from the body over human rights abuses.
Mr Mugabe accuses the UK of trying to oust him because of the land redistribution programme his regime is carrying out by confiscating white-owned land and giving it to black Zimbabweans.
Please visit the link provided for the complete story.
[edit on 2006/4/27 by Hellmutt]
BBC: Straw justifies Mugabe handshake
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has defended shaking hands with Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe and saying "nice to see you" when they met in New York.
...he made it clear he had not immediately recognised the much-criticised Zimbabwean president.
Shortly before the reception, in an address to the UN General Assembly, the Zimbabwean president accused US President George W Bush of behaving like God, and Tony Blair of being his prophet.
He said the US and the UK were "raining bombs and hell-fire on innocent Iraqis, purportedly in the name of democracy".
"We are now being coerced to accept and believe that a new political-cum-religious doctrine has arisen, namely that there is but one political God, George W Bush, and Tony Blair is his prophet."
Zimbabwe last year quit the Commonwealth after the country was suspended indefinitely from the body over human rights abuses.
Mr Mugabe accuses the UK of trying to oust him because of the land redistribution programme his regime is carrying out by confiscating white-owned land and giving it to black Zimbabweans.
Please visit the link provided for the complete story.
[edit on 2006/4/27 by Hellmutt]
Jack Straw is an idiot.
His racist comment of it being too dark in the corner along with the fact that as Foreign Secretary he couldn't recognise one of the worlds' most infamous dictators makes him an embarrasment. He may as well have been shaking the hand of Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein.
He states that:
There's nothing discourteous or rude about showing a little back-bone.
And this idiot is representing our generation on really important issues on the global stage.
On a side note, the fact that people like Mugabe can critise the events in the Middle East is indicative of the moral ground we have lost in going to war for surreptitious reasons, but that's another thread.
His racist comment of it being too dark in the corner along with the fact that as Foreign Secretary he couldn't recognise one of the worlds' most infamous dictators makes him an embarrasment. He may as well have been shaking the hand of Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein.
He states that:
Originally by Jack Straw
But the fact that there is serious disagreement between Zimbabwe and the UK does not mean we should be discourteous or rude
There's nothing discourteous or rude about showing a little back-bone.
And this idiot is representing our generation on really important issues on the global stage.
On a side note, the fact that people like Mugabe can critise the events in the Middle East is indicative of the moral ground we have lost in going to war for surreptitious reasons, but that's another thread.
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