ROME, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe
on Monday railed against U.S. President George W. Bush and
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, calling them “unholy men” and
“international terrorists” bent on world domination.
Mugabe departed from his text at a ceremony for the 60th
anniversary of the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO) to accuse Bush and Blair of illegally
invading Iraq and looking to unseat governments elsewhere.
“Must we allow these men, the two unholy men of our
millennium, who in the same way as Hitler and Mussolini formed
(an) unholy alliance … to attack an innocent country?” he
said, occasionally gesticulating for emphasis.
“The voice of Mr. Bush and the voice of Mr. Blair can’t
decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who
shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in Venezuela, who shall rule
in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq,” he said.
“Is this the world we desire? The world of giants and
international terrorists who use their state muscle in order to
intimidate us? We become the midgets,” he said.
Some of the delegates applauded his fiery anti-Western
speech several times.