White Zimbabwe farmers flee before eviction deadline

A thuggish leader of a nation is determined to hold onto to power no who or what gets destroyed

About 600 white farmers and their families in Zimbabwe’s grain belt fled their farms Sunday, hours before a deadline from the security forces to abandon their homes. The majority of the country’s most productive farmers appear to have finally accepted that they have lost the battle to keep their homes and businesses.

The exodus of white commercial farmers who have traditionally produced more than 40 percent of Zimbabwe’s export earnings, marked the final phase of a 31 month battle.

It began after President Robert Mugabe lost a referendum in February 2000 for a new constitution. Weeks later, apparently to strengthen his failing political power, he ordered his supporters to invade white-owned farms.

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Confused?  Upset?  Here’s the answer.  Bomb Iraq!

Tom Tomorrow gets it right.

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Iraq lacks nuclear material for bomb

Saddam Hussein has substantial stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and the capacity to expand production of them on short notice, but Iraq will be unable to build a nuclear weapon for years unless it obtains radioactive material on the black market, a leading security affairs research organization said today.

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Beating the drum for war

Currently there’s much apocalyptic news and leaked reports and unnamed insiders telling us how Saddam is a Very Bad Man, how he will have nukes quite possibly by tomorrow morning, and that he unquestionably will use them against us.

Hmmm, well, Scott Ritter, who headed the Iraq inspections says Iraq doesn’t have nuclear capability.  Others have confirmed that they don’t have the missles to deliver them.  And where is the proof that they intend to use them against us?

Well, they’ve promised Big Proof, real soon, as they build a crescendo of blood lust for a war, without or without an ok from the UN or support for other countries.  And they’re focusing entirely on the military aspect - with little, if any, thought given to the geopolitical ramifications of a war.  What will happen to the balance of power in the Middle East and world?  Will invading Iraq create a million new terrorists?  Is the whole thing just a grab for Saudi oil, as a former member of Tony Blair’s cabinet has suggested?

Canada has joined France, Germany, Russia, and China is being skeptical (at best) of an Iraq invasion.  The most of rest of the world views an Iraq invasion as an unprovoked assault by a rogue state - the rogue state being the U.S.  Whatever moral force the U.S. used to enjoy is evaporating fast, as the ideologues in D.C. push for war at any cost and everyone else be damned.

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