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Jimmy Carter's rotten job on Zimbabwe - His statement - and Our Comments on it...

Date Posted: Friday 26-Dec-2008
[The Carter Centre put out a rather pathetic, and somewhat misleading piece about the situation in Zimbabwe. Those of us who remember Carter's intervention in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, have a number of thoughts and comments to make about it.

Let us begin with a simple fact that Carter and others gloss over:-
1. That thanks to Carter and the British, Robert Mugabe came to power. See: New York Sun: Jimmy Carter's Role In Putting Robert Mugabe in Power and [Audio] [Audio] Jeff Rense: How Jimmy Carter & Andrew Young put Mugabe in power and Jimmy Carter & Andrew Young are responsible for Zimbabwe's Collapse

2. Then there is that Black American Racist, Andrew Young, who by the way, is conspicuous by his complete absence in the light of the Mugabe hell. Who is Andrew Young? See: [Pic] Jimmy Carter's Racist AfricanAmerican Idiot who wanted Mugabe in is quoted in THE PIED PIPER by Dr Richard Cummings as having had a fight with Allard Lowenstein over Robert Mugabe. Lowenstein told Young that Mugabe is a communist and should not be allowed to rule Zimbabwe. Young then overrode Lowenstein by saying (and I'm paraphrasing - you can find the actual quote in Dr Cumming's book), "It does not matter if Mugabe is a communist, we can worry about that later. It is more important to get the Whites out." So Andrew Young, acting on orders from Jimmy Carter, installed Mugabe knowing full well that he is a fiend.

Let me summarise very quickly, Mugabe's track record afterwards and prior to the current crisis:-
(a) He fought a war in Mozambique to keep Marxist Frelimo in power.
(b) In Government by Deception, I noted that Mugabe may have had a role in the collapse of Malawi - I give my reasons why. Malawi was pro-Western, and went over into Marxist hands who did tremendous damage to it.
(c) Mugabe engaged in the genocide of 30,000 Matabele people.
(d) Mugabe fought a massive war in the DRC to keep Marxist Kabila in power.
(e) Mugabe helped bring the terrorist ANC in South Africa to power.

Never, at any time, when Mugabe was doing any of the above, did Andrew Young, nor Jimmy Carter ever say or do anything about it. In fact, Andrew Young, is very conspicuous by his absence. We've seen absolute hell unfold in Zimbabwe for 9 years now (after ignoring all the other activities including the genocide of the Matabeles), and yet, Andrew Young has never come out and said anything. Yet, he was Carter's right hand man. Where is Andrew Young now to perhaps apologise and beg forgiveness from the Black and White people of Zimbabwe?

Oh, by the way, Andrew, you did indeed solve the "Racist problem" in Zimbabwe caused by the pesky whites because more than 90% of the Whites who lived there, including myself, have since left. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

Jimmy Carter's praise of Robert Mugabe as a great humanitarian really has to be seen to be believed. Check it out:[Video] Jimmy Carter praises Robert Mugabe's fine humanity! (Also Footage of: Queen Elizabeth & Ronald Reagan)

3. Captain Joseph Smith, an American journalist who fought in Rhodesia, wrote to Carter and received this reply:
[Photo] Letter: Jimmy Carter replies to Reader about Mugabe
4. Finally Carter got off his butt (which is more than we can say for that worthless Andrew Young), and tried to come to the country he had played such a major role in destroying, and Mugabe and Mbeki refused him and the others entry:-
Zimbabwe rejects Carter, Annan, Machel
I of course thought it was all, too little, too late: Zimbabwe: Hey Carter & Condi, you good-for-nothing, useless sods, you're 8 years too LATE! - The Plan to Murder 6.5 million Black people
Here are some points from me regarding the statement issued by the Carter Foundation:-
(a) So Carter amits that getting rid of "Apartheid Rhodesia" - how cute - we always thought the crime was colonialism, but ok, so now he says it was "Apartheid!" What Carter omits is that this "Apartheid State" was actually ruled by a Black Prime Minister by the name of Bishop Abel Muzorewa at the time he came to "change it to democracy!" Yes, you can check the history books and you'll see that is so. If we must be completely correct, then we'd have to say that it was already a real democracy at the time Carter and Young came and changed it into a dictatorship - because there never was an honest election in Zimbabwe after Mugabe came to power.

Carter does admit that Mugabe's rule has been 30 years of "... governmental corruption, mismanagement and oppression..." I have to ask, if Carter knows this, doesn't he feel any remorse for his role? Doesn't he feel he should apologise to the people of that country? It should be clear, from his own acknowledgement, that he and the British played a pivotal role in bringing ruin to that country?

(b) I do agree with Carter's assessment about Africa's leaders: "However, these same leaders have been reluctant to assume responsibility for resolving the political stalemate and the escalating humanitarian catastrophe." But what Carter refrains from saying is that many of these Black African leaders support and admire Mugabe.

(c) I am glad to see that Carter admits that Morgan Tsvangirai won an outright presidential majority in March 2008. I doubt it was the first time Morgan actually won. I'm sure he's won before. Carter writes: "The current political and humanitarian crisis originated with a fraudulent presidential election in March 2008, with Tsvangirai probably winning an actual majority against President Robert Mugabe." Now why doesn't Carter mention that Mugabe is illegally in power at this time and must be removed? Carter and Young were all too quick to kick out Ian Smith and Bishop Muzorewa. Now why are they dawdling so much on this matter of Mugabe?

Frankly, I find Carter's statement disappointing. He should be playing a much more active role, and that horrible black racist man, Andrew Young needs to come out and face the music for the mess he played a major role in too.

Below is Carter's statement. But below that, are statements by Captain Joseph Smith and others who were in Rhodesia and who saw what Carter and Young did back then.

Let me add something else: Given the involvement of Kissinger, Carter and Young in Rhodesia and southern Africa, I'd say this: If those clowns had had to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, then Hitler would have ended up ruling the world. As far as those of us who lived there are concerned, Carter, Young and Kissinger DID A ROTTEN JOB. They did a terrible job. It is hard to imagine if it is humanly possible to have done a more rotten job than they did. As for the British, what can we say? The British were washing their hands of Africa and running as fast as possible away from Africa, handing over nation after nation to any old pretender to the throne, never concerning themselves with whether the new rulers were butchers or criminals. Even when they knew the facts, the British couldn't care less. The British, Carter and Young did a shoddy job and then ran away as fast as possible to leave us all to the wolves. Whether we lived or died, or whether our nations had a chance of success did not matter to them.

Where were the British, and Carter and Young when Mugabe was busy murdering the Matabele people in the 1980s? Where were they when Mugabe's soldiers were shoving bayonets into women's private parts, gang-raping them and slaughtering entire villages? No... they were nowhere to be seen. Where were they when Mugabe fought wars in other African countries to ensure that Marxism succeeded there and would take hold of those people's futures? Nowhere...

Do you know how many people's lives they destroyed by bringing Mugabe to power? Consider this: Zimbabwe's population is 13 million. Mozambique's is about the same. The DRC has about 40 million. That, for starters is 66 million people they condemned to hell by putting Mugabe into power. In the DRC, the bloodiest war ever fought on African soil had Mugabe as a prime participant. About 5 million died there.

Bringing Mugabe to power was one of the most evil things the Western world ever did. But then again, the British, in those days didn't give a damn about solving "the Rhodesian problem". They just wanted to find any old criminal to hand the country over to and to run away from it. They could not even accept a decent moderate black leader, like Bishop Muzorewa, who won the only free and fair black election that country EVER HAD (because it definitely has had none since!). The British and Americans were only too happy to kick Bishop Muzorewa out to install a maniacal communist. These same people heaped praise on Mugabe and helped him continuously and turned a blind eye to his genocide of the Matabeles even then! The country did have a black leader at the time, and even that was not good enough. They kicked out Muzorewa so that they could install a communist terrorist in the place of a moderate black leader with a religious background. Can somebody please explain the logic of this madness to me? None of us who lived in those days feel anything other than the utmost contempt for Jimmy Carter, Andrew Young and Henry Kissinger. They came to Africa and they did a rotten job over here.

See the comments from others who were in Rhodesia at the time. Their comments are below the Carter statement. Jan]

Respond to Zimbabwe Crisis
By Jimmy Carter

Dec. 02, 2008

This op-ed was published in the Dec. 2, 2008 edition of the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

As president, I worked actively with African leaders and the British to change the apartheid regime of Rhodesia into a democratic Zimbabwe in 1980. Eight years later, The Carter Center established one of our first agriculture projects in Zimbabwe, at that time known as a breadbasket for the region and setting an example in economic stability, education and health care.

Now, after almost three decades of governmental corruption, mismanagement and oppression, Zimbabwe has become a basket case and an international embarrassment. A group of leaders known as the Elders, to which I belong, have monitored this crisis, while realizing that its resolution must come from within Africa. Time for action is now running out, a reality forcefully conveyed to me on a recent five-day fact-finding trip to the region.

There is great aversion among even the most enlightened African leaders to "interference" from former colonial powers and their allies, including the United States. However, these same leaders have been reluctant to assume responsibility for resolving the political stalemate and the escalating humanitarian catastrophe.

I joined former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Graça Machel, women's activist and wife of Nelson Mandela, in South Africa on Nov. 21 with the intention of traveling on to Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. However, when we met with former South African president Thabo Mbeki, the facilitator designated by other African leaders to mediate the political dispute in Zimbabwe, he delivered a message from Harare that our visas were denied and we could not proceed.

We had anticipated this possibility and held a series of comprehensive discussions in Johannesburg with delegations that came from Zimbabwe to meet us, including executives of international nonprofit and governmental agencies and a wide range of other stakeholders including leaders of Zimbabwe's civil society. What we learned of the situation was even worse than our expectations. We also met with Botswana President Ian Khama, South African President Kgalema Motlanthe, ANC Party President (and prospective South African President) Jacob Zuma, and Zimbabwe's opposition party leaders Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara.

The current political and humanitarian crisis originated with a fraudulent presidential election in March 2008, with Tsvangirai probably winning an actual majority against President Robert Mugabe. Orchestrated violence and brutal persecution of Tsvangirai and his supporters forced him to withdraw from the forced runoff and leave the country. Mugabe then declared himself president. African political leaders largely ignored reports of fraud by their own election observers, and eventually negotiated a power-sharing agreement that Mugabe and Tsvangirai signed on Sept. 15. Unfortunately, Mugabe has not ceded any real power to his opponent and the trend toward a national tragedy has accelerated.

The official inflation rate is now 231 million percent, and actually 2,000 times greater. Thousands of people stand in line daily to receive a tiny allowance from their own bank accounts — approximately 2 cents — an amount that is insufficient to buy even half a loaf of bread. Meanwhile, top government officials and other privileged people can exchange Zimbabwe money at a favorable rate and profit greatly from these transactions. They shop in special stores.

Schoolteachers receive only one U.S. dollar a month, and cannot afford transportation to work. Attendance has dropped from 85 to 20 percent, with attending students mostly wanting to obtain a morsel of food. All universities are closed.

A planting shortage of seed and fertilizer will result in a failed harvest, and the World Food Program estimates that 50 percent of the population will need food assistance before April 2009. Relief agencies report that available food supplies are channeled to ruling party loyalists, deliberately starving opposition party leaders.

All major hospitals and most emergency clinics no longer operate, and police have clashed with doctors and nurses who insist on treating their patients. Uncontrolled sewage and lack of clean water has resulted in cholera outbreaks in all 10 provinces.

Zimbabwe is battling a nationwide cholera epidemic that has killed 425 people since late August and infected more than 11,000, according to government statistics.

As many as 4 million people have left Zimbabwe, seeking food, medical care and freedom from abuse, and the cholera outbreak has made neighboring nations increasingly wary of accepting immigrants. There are courageous people in Johannesburg who with limited means are helping alleviate the immense suffering. We visited Central Methodist church, where Bishop Paul Verryn feeds and houses 2,000 refugees in the church's rooms and corridors each night.

Without a political solution, the economic and social fabric of society will continue its free-fall. When Mugabe cannot pay his army and enormous civil service, the result may be a resort to internecine violence and a failed state, similar to Somalia.

African leaders, especially in the neighboring Southern African Development Community, must confront Mugabe and force him to comply with negotiated political agreements and share real governing authority with Tsvangirai and the opposition party. If action by these leaders continues to be ineffective, the African Union and the United Nations must take action. A first step, short of intercession, could be to send independent fact-finding teams to Zimbabwe to obtain information directly from major donors, international relief agencies, medical doctors, teachers, farmers and other citizens who have described their experiences to us.

In the meantime, there is a desperate need for food, medicine and cash contributions to established humanitarian agencies including CARE, World Vision and Save the Children — or to Bishop Verryn. It is counterproductive to contribute money that can be confiscated by the Zimbabwe government.

Jimmy Carter,the 39th president of the United States, leads The Carter Center.

Here are some comments from people who were in Rhodesia or linked to it. This is what they think of the above piece by Carter:-

What a typical Carter load of meaningless, dissembling and arrant bullsh*t blended with the starling bloody obvious! Including suggesting more 'fact-finding' missions, as if the facts are not already known by him!
John.

What a spin this ass has put on his role. Calling Zimbabwe the breadbasket of Africa, when it was Rhodesia that was the bread basket of Africa. He practically gives himself credit for what Rhodesia accomplished. I mean the way he worded his first paragraph would have the liberal reader believing that once Carter liberated Zimbabwe, it became the bread basket of Africa??? When in fact, it was the start of Zimbabwe's demise??

Funny how only now he responds with this editorial. Wonder if it has anything to do with the USA media covering the crisis in Zim on a daily basis? Joseph, perhaps Fox news can pick up on the Carter connection since the liberal media won't point a finger at him???

This guy really makes me sick--he should just shut the hell up and fade away--he's done enough damage.
Rich.

Captain Joseph Smith commented:-
Rich just sent this Jimmy Carter editorial. Obviously the old fox is attempting to Gerrymander his past.
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Posted By: Jan
AfricanCrisis Webmaster
Author of: Government by Deception