Ian Smith, last PM of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), dies
 

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa....ap/index.html

Rhodesia under Ian Smith's rule:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYDg3ofh7dM

Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe's rule:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh14N...eature=related

Re: Ian Smith, last PM of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), dies
 

Uh yeah, Beautiful Apartheid. Glory, glory.

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Uh yeah, Beautiful Apartheid. Glory, glory.

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Apartheid was in South Africa, not Rhodesia.

Re: Ian Smith, last PM of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), dies
 

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Uh yeah, Beautiful Apartheid. Glory, glory.

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Apartheid was in South Africa, not Rhodesia.

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Ok. Beautiful blatantly racist regime supressing a people's right to self-determination. Much different, I'm sure.

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Rhodesia was called the breadbasket of Africa and produced enough food for of southern Africa; Zimbabwe cannot even feed its own people. Average life expectancy in Rhodesia was 60 years; life expectancy in Zimbabwe is 37 years, the lowest in the world.

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So because Ian Smith's successor was one of the brutal dictators in the world is supposed to excuse the fact that he headed a blatantly racist regime that supressed a people's right to self-determination?

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"Self determination" in that part of the world has always been the whim of the biggest strongman.

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life expectancy in Zimbabwe is 37 years, the lowest in the world.

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In all fairness, this statistic is as much a result of violence as health/nutrition problems.

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Uh yeah, Beautiful Apartheid. Glory, glory.

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Apartheid was in South Africa, not Rhodesia.

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Ok. Beautiful blatantly racist regime supressing a people's right to self-determination. Much different, I'm sure.

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Well I don't support neither one of them, but if choosing between the evils I'd say Mugabe is def the worst.

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That's no reason to celebrate Ian Smith.