we should tell the american goverment that there is oil in Zimbabwe..?
Or is regime change somehow not necessary there..?
2007-03-18 01:45:53 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Spot on! I saw a funny cartoon which had a poor Zimbabwe guy digging and when asked why, he said he was looking for oil so George Bush would send in the troops!
There are plenty of other war-ravaged countries (Darfur, Sierra Leone) that the US and UK could have invaded on the grounds of non-existent weapons of mass destruction, but oh dear, guess what? They chose Iraq instead!
As for the person below me who said this was a stupid question, "regime change" is a term coined by the Americans, not by the asker of this question, which is not at all stupid but very insightful. The asker is right in that there are many countries worse off than Iraq which could benefit from a regime change.
The Iraq war was something the UN decided not to support but the US bullied ahead with anyway, and shamefully the UK (as the 51st state) went along with. Bush is now trying to stir things up in Iran, where incidentally, there happens to be one heck of alot of oil.
2007-03-18 01:50:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
It is true that things in Zimbabwe and in many other African countries are pretty bad. And it may be hard to accept but America cannot police the world. It has to pick it's fights based on it's own self-interest. Indeed the flow of oil at market prices is the life blood of all developed nations. Protecting that would be in America's self interest.
It is probably why no other nation in the world is stepping in, in Africa either.
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2007-03-18 02:23:51 · answer #2 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Aren't these Zimbabwe questions getting a bit repetitive? There are plently of other dodgy regimes in the world - some a lot worse than Mugabe - if you really want to spend your time hand wringing.
2007-03-18 05:33:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Two questions;
1. How many nations has Zimbabwe invaded?
2. How many US planes have been shot down by Zimbabwe in violation of UN mandates?
2007-03-18 02:53:23 · answer #4 · answered by Gray Wanderer 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If ever there was an example of one man raping a country,Zimbabwe and Mugabe is it.It disgusts me that no action has been taken
2007-03-18 01:56:29 · answer #5 · answered by rosbif 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
How come the USA? We are not the only country in the world with an army?
2007-03-18 04:36:37 · answer #6 · answered by CHARITY G 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lets look at Bush's record for finding oil--failure at that so he now at least knows to go where they already found it and kill for it.
2007-03-18 02:29:27 · answer #7 · answered by sally sue 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I liked the cracker jack whitey answer above. thumbs up to him.
i am nowhere near as well versed in current affairs nor clever enough to come up with an answer to your $3 questions.
I'll crawl back under my rock now.
2007-03-18 03:04:28 · answer #8 · answered by vegetable soup 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Oooh- good idea. No regime change is not necessary as Black dictators by virtue of race are nowhere near as evil as mean old cracker-jack whitey.
2007-03-18 02:17:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
bush just sniffs out the oil like a wild coyote u don't need to tell him anything. he's probably radaring into this q right now and planning his military exercise
2007-03-18 01:53:26 · answer #10 · answered by white_funny_girl 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋