The ThunderDragon: I Agree With Robert Mugabe*

13 April 2008

I Agree With Robert Mugabe*

I agree with Robert Mugabe*: Gordon Brown is "a little tiny dot on this world". But Robert Mugabe is an even tinier little dot on this world. And a reviled one at that.

But, really, how long does it take to count votes? It's been two weeks since the election was held, surely that is long enough to count and re-count the ballot paper several times!

So why does he now want to hold a recount? Just announce the results and accept that you have lost. Otherwise Zimbabwe will experience the same upheaval and issues that affected Kenya not so long ago, after the Kenyan president refused to accept that he had lost the election.

If Mugabe does not accept that he has lost the election immediately after this recount, there will be hell to pay. If he claims that he has won after the recount, there will be even worse hell to pay. It does not take that long to count votes, and the more Mugabe delays the worse it looks.

But I doubt he'll listen, since I'm an even smaller tiny dot than Mugabe himself.

* Only on the fact that Brown is a "a little tiny dot on this world," though . Just to clarify this.

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