(TALKZIMBABWE) US diplomat is an idiotic little fellow: president

US diplomat is an idiotic little fellow: president
Nyasha Maunze
Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:35:00 +0000

PRESIDENT Mugabe has described US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson as "an idiotic little fellow" for trying to lecture Zimbabwe on how to conduct affairs of State.

He met him on Thursday on the sidelines of the 13th Ordinary Session of the African Union General Assembly in Sirte, Libya on Thursday. It was the first meeting after many years. Carson served as US ambassador to Zimbabwe from 1995 to 1997.

The President said he had been angered by Carson’s condescending attitude and said he hoped Carson was speaking in his individual capacity and not for US President Barack Obama.

"No, you wouldn’t speak to an idiot of that nature. I was very angry with him, and he thinks he could dictate to us what to do and what not to do in the inclusive Government.

"We have the whole of Sadc working with us, and you have the likes of little fellows like Carson, you see, wanting to say: ‘You do this, you do that.’

"Who is he? "I hope he was not speaking for Obama. I told him he was a shame, a great shame, being an African-American, an Afro-American for that matter."

Carson succeeded Jendayi Frazer of former US President George W. Bush's administration.

President Mugabe previously said Jendayi Frazer had behaved like a prostitute for suggesting that then Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change and its leader Morgan Tsvangirai had won the March 29 elections.

“You saw this little American girl trotting around like a prostitute celebrating that the MDC had won. A disgraceful act,” President Mugabe said at the time.

In the run-up to the 2008 harmonised elections, Carson had issued various statements saying that the United States government supported the (then) opposition MDC-T party and that the US government and its machinery were gearing themselves to see elections in Zimbabwe. -- TZG/Herald