UN takes the piss out of itself

Robert Mugabe speaking at ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation compared Bush and Blair to Hilter. Where to begin, this story has everything.

There is the UN, a toothless talking shop taking the piss out of itself by inviting the man that transformed Zimbabwe from a bread basket into a place of mass stavation to talk about hunger. I guess he does know something about it having caused so much.

There is the EU, and it's useless travel ban supposed to hurt Mugabe, yet he is still able to come over whenever he wants thanks to another transnational organisation.

There is the 'blame everything on the west' attitude. Mugabe claiming that all problems everywhere (just about) where from US imperialism, forgetting that it was his policies that have left Zimbabwe staving and destitute. The UN audience didn't care about little things like that and lapped it up and applauded his fiery anti-Western speech several times.

There is calling western governments terrorists, and comparing Blair and Bush (or Bushilter) to Hitler. Now I am not Blair's best friend, but this coming from a racist despot like Mugabe? Irony overload.

A story with everything.