If Zimbabwe had oil , would Bush and his puppet Blair oust the dictator.?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

Zimbabwe is a major problem for the British Government due to the past history of the country. As a colonial power a lot of the problems that Zimbabwe has are wrongly blamed on the British.
If Zimbabwe had oil or other raw materials it would be easier for the UK to invade because the losses from such a war could be recovered in the future.
However we all need to consider a couple of things,
First the British army is very stretched with Iraq and Afghanistan.
Secondly invading an African country could be a like putting a flame to a tinder box.
In the UK we are still apologising for our sins in Africa and I don't think there is the guts within the government to take this on.
Having lived in Africa for many years I would love to see Mugabe removed from office permanently but I think the changes have to come from within. To this end the British Government should offer much higher support to the opposition in Zimbabwe to allow this change to occur.

Answer 3

This is a good question. B and B have no problems in finding reasons for interfering in the internal affairs of another country, even though this is against International Law.

Murder, torture and breaches of human rights on a massive scale do not appear to be as important in a country that has no large natural resources.

The whole world is shouting out against this terrible injustice and yet nobody seems to be listening. There would be more support for intervention in Zimbabwe than there has been for the fiasco in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We have a wonderful opportunity here to redress the balance of what we did to Africa in the past.

Answer 4

Iran is a Democracy we've one thousand's of troops in South Korea and the North has been monitored by using applying the US and Japan militia continuously for the previous 56 years. Zimbabwe is supposedly a Democracy I even have no concept what we ought to learn from ousting the Bhutanese government. they're relatively inocuous. Saudi Arabia is an ideal chum indoors the area and the US has militia bases there, it probably does now not be a reliable precedent to set by using applying toppling a regime which permits your militia to examine there an video teach the area i do now not comprehend approximately Turkmenistan. Saddam became of path the rogue elephant with the main possibility to reason a difficulty - He has attacked the international places of Iran, Kuwait and Israel jointly as he had the possibility. there became no reason to think of of he became reformed.

Answer 5

Probably not. If you look at the history of oil, the United States and UK have tended to negotiate deals with controlling governements to get access to natural resources. I am not sure I can acutally think of an example where they openly tried to takeover a country to access the resources (I don't think Iraq counts; we don't preferential access to the oil). My guess is the US and UK would more likely prop up the government. Dictators are usually motivated to work with the US and UK because they get a skim of the oil. better to get a little percentage of a producing oil project vs. a non-producing. This dynamic works out in the short-run until the dictator starts making too much money. Then he might act differently (see Chavez and XOM).

Answer 6

Blair should do something as it was one of his political predecessors who set up this problem (Harald Wilson) and then bailed out of office at five minutes notice leaving the rest to pick up the pieces. Blair is only in Iraq to make sure that when he leaves British politics he will have a welcome in the USA that will get him out of the UK and the problems that will inevitably emerge when Labour are out of office. However nothing will be done as Zimbabwe is in the middle of Africa and it would necessitate negotiating to cross
another country to land any force.

Answer 7

Oil has nothing to do with anything. We get over 50% of our oil from the Western Hemispehere, and most of Africa and the Midldle east is in the Eastern Hemisphere last time I checked. We get more oil from Canada than anywhere else. If oil was the #1 reason to invade, we would be part of Canada by now.

Answer 8

Not totally sure - Don't get me wrong, I'm sure that they would love to go in and liberate all that lovely oil.

However, Africa is a melting pot of all kinds of factions & warlords. It would be a case of go into one country and they would end up fighting off the others & trying to control all the different power struggles out there.

I don't think that they would want to take it on, especally with the foul up that is Iraq.

Answer 9

I think so!

It must be sorted out internally, in my opinion the people of Zimbabwe must get together and do this for themselves, I am sure the Zimbabweans worldwide would give their support, there must be a way for the people to overthrow Mugabe!

This is possible!

Answer 10

No need to oust anyone when you can bribe them into puppetry with power, as was done with The Shah of Iran, the Arabian royal family, etc etc...If the relation turns sour though, out they go! (like Saddam)

Answer 11

I would imagine so. It's totally outrageous what's going on there. Those people used to be Commonwealth citizens and we should be in there sorting that out rather than poncing about in Iran at the beck and call of that war-monger Bush.