W/ Gawd On Our Side

Take it from one who knows.

As President Robert Mugabe's party said Saturday that it was poised for massive victory in Zimbabwe's one-candidate presidential runoff, President Bush called the vote "a sham election that ignored the will of the people" and warned of new sanctions.

Cheese & crackers, the nerve of that little shit!! Bush may have been a proud "C" student, but he must have gotten extra credit in the hypocrisy courses at Yale. We here at Just Another Blog™ have several "sanctions" that we're ready, willing & able to apply to Mr. Bush. Moving right along, the L. A. Times's still anonymous woman or man in Harare passes along some statements about Mugabe, & some ugly facts.

After Mugabe was declared the winner, ZTV state television erupted in triumphalism, with "Congratulations Winner" flashing repeatedly. Religious commentators on ZTV read biblical excerpts to back the proposition that the country must unite around one leader anointed by God. A prayer at the inauguration said it was a "divine day" and called for God to grant Mugabe "divine authority that only comes from you."

Who Would Jeezis Bomb, huh? We'll bet Mugabe has an Office of Faith Based Initiatives just like George's. Now compare the below w/ Bush's "permanent campaign," as most recently revealed by Scott McClellan.

"Every time Mugabe is cornered, he resorts to violence," said Oskar Wermter, a Catholic priest in the crowded Mbare neighborhood on the outskirts of Harare. "It's a warlike atmosphere. [Mugabe] and his colleagues live in the past in the glory days of the liberation war in the 1970s. They're still in the trenches. They see themselves as in the same confrontation with the British and the whites. "There's a possibility that now that they have manipulated the elections they will go further and crush the opposition and keep hitting them and annihilate them once and for all."

Sound familiar? Try this on for size.

According to Heidi Holland, author of the book "Dinner With Mugabe," which was based in part on a lengthy and rare interview with him last year, the violence of the election "has got Mugabe written all over it. If you go to war, you go to war with your generals." She saw him as a quiet, closed figure who believes a person must hide emotions so that no one can determine what he or she is thinking. "He's not had a friend, all his life, and he admitted that to me. He said he used to like being by himself. He liked living in his head. He's a very clever man and completely cut off from his feelings so he can operate in a way that no one else can." Holland described Mugabe as "extremely vengeful" and predicted that he would try in the coming months to eliminate the opposition. "When he's rejected or humiliated -- and he knows that he was rejected and that the people voted against him -- he chalks it up and there will be a payback. I am absolutely certain that the violence will continue in the rural areas." "He lives in a reality bubble," Holland said. "Nothing impinges on the way he chooses to see things. He cannot be wrong, he can only be right. "You can ask him any question, because he knows the answer," she said. "It's only when you are skeptical about his answer that he gets sparks in his eyes."

Frighteningly familiar. Again, don't say we didn't warn you. Remember when Rudy "The Catholic" Giuliani wanted to "postpone" the mayoral election that took place in NYC on 11 September 2001?