Harper condemns 'stolen' Zimbabwe election
Newsbot @ Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:40 pm
Title: Harper condemns 'stolen' Zimbabwe election
Category: Political
Posted By: mtbr
Date: 2008-06-27 16:37:23
Canadian
mtbr @ Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:40 pm
**Kenmore**
...just another photo op for baby bush
mtbr @ Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:47 pm
nope no skin off my nose
warwickgreen @ Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:49 pm
$1:
Harper said that he may be prepared to announce sanctions against the African nation and encouraged other nations to pressure Robert Mugabe's regime.
"Our government has condemned the corrupt vote in the strongest possible terms," he said in a speech for B'nai Brith International on Friday. "We are working with the international community to bring in strong measures to pressure the Mugabe regime which has illegitimately stolen the election."
"Our government has condemned the corrupt vote in the strongest possible terms," he said in a speech for B'nai Brith International on Friday. "We are working with the international community to bring in strong measures to pressure the Mugabe regime which has illegitimately stolen the election."
Like what? We won't let their cricket team tour like the Brits have done? That'll sure shake Mugabe up.
Donny_Brasco @ Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:52 pm
Now bush and harper are thinking. Better to oppose the results of an election where the millions and millions you spent to support the opposition and still lost are fresh in your mind, then to have to spend billions more overthrowing that guy covertly a year or two later.
Really, I think this Mugaby guy is bad and deserves to have his nuts chopped off...but why did the CIA's foreign political reorganization unit fail so miserably to get their puppet appointed? Are they under funded? Is their intelligence in Africa faulty? What use is the CIA if they can't sway the election of a little place like Zimbabwe? How can they expect to influence a huge and richer nation under Chavez when they can't even defeat Mugaby?
ridenrain @ Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:08 pm
Nice to see the Canadian government actually react to the outside world in real time, not months after.
kenmore @ Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:14 pm
He is just sounding off so people will think he gives a shit.. he is probably trying to figure out how he can fix the next election here at home 
robmik43 @ Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:35 am
It's about condemning a fixed election and a crooked,
despotic government in Zimbabwe....and that's all.
A country's leader is expected to make comments in such circumstances.
If you Harper-bashers need to use the oppression of
another county's citizenry as an excuse for pointless domestic
partisanship, it's a measure of your own shortcomings, not of Harper's.
warwickgreen @ Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:39 am
robmik43 robmik43:
If you Harper-bashers need to use the oppression of
another county's citizenry as an excuse for pointless domestic
partisanship, it's a measure of your own shortcomings, not of Harper's.
another county's citizenry as an excuse for pointless domestic
partisanship, it's a measure of your own shortcomings, not of Harper's.
What I am waiting to hear is this:
$1:
"We are working with the international community to bring in strong measures to pressure the Mugabe regime which has illegitimately stolen the election."
Any guess as to what Mr Harper's "strong measures" will be? So far the Brits have, as I said, banned the country's cricket team. The Queen has taken away his knighthood. What do you think Canada should do?
ShepherdsDog @ Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:00 am
kenmore kenmore:
He is just sounding off so people will think he gives a shit.. he is probably trying to figure out how he can fix the next election here at home
Figuring out a way to keep Dion as Liberal leader, will be the best way to fix election results for the CPC.
Wada @ Sat Jun 28, 2008 6:52 am
Mr. Harper is such an "in your face" type of guy. 
kenmore @ Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:02 am
Wada Wada:
Mr. Harper is such an "in your face" type of guy.
He is so not a people person,, hides from the press and the Canadian public.. an autocrat ruler and delusion king of Canada... hopefully dethroned in the next election..
kenmore @ Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:04 am
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
kenmore kenmore:
He is just sounding off so people will think he gives a shit.. he is probably trying to figure out how he can fix the next election here at home
Figuring out a way to keep Dion as Liberal leader, will be the best way to fix election results for the CPC.
You might be in for a big surprise there dog.. Eastern Canadians support the carbon tax and the liberal plan for a much better Canada.. and we all know where most votes come from
mtbr @ Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:05 am
mtbr mtbr:
**Kenmore**
...just another photo op for baby bush
...just another photo op for baby bush
warwickgreen @ Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:37 am
kenmore kenmore:
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
You might be in for a big surprise there dog.. Eastern Canadians support the carbon tax and the liberal plan for a much better Canada.. and we all know where most votes come from
The next election is about 14 months away. By then people will be pretty tired in listening to Dion's Green Scheme. Who know what the big issues will be for the electorate at that time?