President Bush stated, “In Zimbabwe ordinary citizens also suffer under a tyrannical regime. The government has cracked down on peaceful calls for freedom and forced millions to leave their homeland.” He added, “The behavior of the Mugabe regime is an assault on its people—and an affront to the principles of the Universal Declaration (of human rights). The United Nations must insist on change in Harare and freedom for the people of Zimbabwe.”

“Let Mr. Bush read history correctly. Let him realize that both personally and in his representative capacity as the current President of the United States, he stands for this ‘civilization’ which occupied, which colonized, 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.”

Mugabe then got mad (sic) “He still kills. He kills in Iraq, He kills in Afghanistan, And he is supposed to be our master on human rights. He imprisons!…we seem all guilty for 9/11…Almighty Bush is now coming back to the UN for a rescue package because his nose has been bloodied! He dares to lecture us on tyranny. Indeed, he wants us to pray to him. We say No to him and encourage him to get out of Iraq.”

At this point the Zimbabwe president became more bi-partisan, ”The British and the Americans have gone on a relentless campaign of destabilizing and vilifying my country. They have sponsored surrogate forces to challenge the lawful authority . They seek regime change… Let these sinister governments be told here and now that Zimbabwe will not allow a regime change authored by outsiders. …Mr. Bush and Brown have no role to play in our national affairs.”

Calling the U.S. and UK “mischievous outsiders and should therefore keep out” he returned to his usual chorus, “The colonial sun set a long time ago; in 1980 in the case of Zimbabwe, and hence Zimbabwe will never be a colony again. Never!”

Given his ranting response to the American criticism, President Mugabe unfortunately did not have the time to cite his government’s socialist accomplishments, or his own for that matter, during 27 years of uninterrupted rule. I shall cite some.

Economically, Mugabe may duly be proud of the world’s highest inflation rate (10,000 percent and growing), a minimum of two million and probably three million of his people have fled their country mostly to neighboring South Africa and to Britain; forcing 750,000 of his people out of their homes in the name of urban renewal; massive food shortages and starvation in a once bountiful agricultural land which was an envy of all Africa; negative economic growth rates; one of the world’s lowest life expectancy rates. In 2000 his thugs seized white-owned farms and Asian businesses thus insuring the catastrophic freefall in food production over recent years.

Politically, his accomplishments include massive intimidation of an already cowed political opposition, harassing the Catholic Church, and closing what was the single independent newspaper the Daily News. Not to be shamed he holds perfunctory elections and indeed during his visit to New York, his Parliament passed a law which will squeeze foreign ownership of some industries and put them in the hands of “the people.”

Rhetorically, he warned, “The West still negates our sovereignty by way of control of our resources… Mr. Bush, Mr. Blair, and now Mr. Brown’s sense of human rights precludes our people’s right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view.”

No Comrade Mugabe, you are “termed dictator,” because you have more than convincingly proven yourself as one by turning your once-bountiful land into the Zimbabwe ruins! Messer’s Bush, Blair and Brown are honored by your scorn.