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Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 3:45 AM
Subject: [Ugandacom] Re: [Chat-AfriK] Mandela's Misguided
Missiles Like many others on this forum am really disturbed by your initial comments on this matter. I was shocked and saddened that an Afrikan of your nature - whom I apparently respected from a distance - without knowing - could take such a position. Your observation - rather than that of Saitn Mandela in fact embarrassed me. To say that Afrika is such a basket case that it should not have its own head is to submit to the imperial power that has destroyed our continets and our minds over generations. Your observation that we have all the resources to become a superpower is a case in point. If we have all the resources, then why should we play the yes-sir-yes-sir game? The US and the British are wrong on Iraq, like they have been on South Africa, on Zimbabwe before Mugabe and the gallant ZANU-PF forces kicked them out in 1980, they were wrong in Angola, in Namibia, in Mozambique, in Congo (DRC) - killing Patrice Lumbumba and imposing Mobutu; wrong in Uganda, using a serial killer, Lt.Gen Museveni who has killed 7milion in the region over just 9 years, eh! WRONG... That does not mean that we now consider them enemies. Even after deposing him in Uganda using Idi Amin, Dr. Milton Obote after getting rid of Amin and getting re-elected, he still went on and worked - pragmatically with them, but on terms that served the interest of his peoples. AIDS? When part of the on-going debate is whether or not the US in fact injected the virus onto the continent? Billions? When many Afrikans are increasingly questioning how much a single life of an Afrikan is worth, caused by their agents - let alone the cost of millions of Afrikans taken as slaves? Billions & AIDS, when in Uganda, their agent Museveni used soldiers known to be HIV positive to be deployed in areas where they want to kill, so that they raped women, young girls and even played sordomy on men? So we should say thank you say and shut our mouths? These guys are after nothing but Arab oil -nothing else. As Afrikans we should be prepared to say no, whether the lives are of Kuwaitis, Iranians, Palestenians, Isreali, Egyptian or Nigerian. Why are they after Iraq, not North Korea? And the UN, what about resolution 242? How old is it? It is almost my age! How many other UN resolutions have Isreal flouted? We should say that they will destroy Iraq and there is nothing - perhaps nothing we can do, but one of those things is NOT to keep quiet. Saint Mandela, who played yes, yes in certain areas to my disappointed is more legitimate an international statesman than Bush. By the way, Bush - whose own election credentials is in question! Robert Mugabe, the man, the Zim. President has more legitimate and moral authority to talk about human rights and international peace than George Bush. Bush is not interested in freedom for the world, he is interested in the power to push big cars using Arab oil (gassoline) on American highways, my brother. Afrikans must be able to think on their own. Whether it is Mandela, Nujoma, Mbeki, Wade, Mugabe, Kibaki, they should have the right and freedom to take a position based on their national, regional or continental interest and those which are consistent with their conscience, not playing religious alter boys for Bush... Pinytek To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. |
