Dictatorships overwhelm democracy in Africa

Friday, March 28, 2008

Zimbabwe is holding important elections tomorrow but that Libyan tyrant, Muammar al-Gaddafi, president of "the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya", whatever that is, does not want Mugabe "to be bothered with elections" because "Mugabe should just rule until he dies."

Gaddafi did not say if he wanted Mugabe to rule the United States of Africa until he drops dead. We have no idea if Gaddafi himself would want to submit himself to Mugabe's rule.

The Libyan autocrat made this startling statement as he was being hosted and feasted in Uganda during something called the Afro-Arab Festival last week.

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