Tsvangirai accuse the West of turning a "blind eye" of Mugabe fraud - to hide his own incompetence!

Tsvangirai said the US and Europe were now willing to accept a Mugabe victory despite what he described as clear evidence the Zanu PF leader was engaged in election fraud.

“That’s an opportunistic position because you cannot as a democrat legitimise the illegitimate and l want to say this; whether the whole world endorses the outcome and say Robert Mugabe has won, the people will know the truth and it is the world that would have turned a blind eye to the wishes of the people of this country,” said the MDC-T leader.

This is typical of an incompetent and failed leader. How many times did the West and SADC give Tsvangirai sound advice and how many times has he ignored them?

The USA Ambassador to Zimbabwe, James McGhee, tried to stop Tsvangirai from signing the one-sided 2008 GPA describing it as a “Swiss cheese with holes so big one could drive a truck through.” Tsvangirai ignored the Ambassador and everyone else and signed the agreement. And for the next four years Tsvangirai insisted the GNU was “working” although the evidence on the ground said the opposite.

If Tsvangirai had at least implemented the democratic reforms called for in the GPA then at least the nation would have dismantled the Zanu PF dictatorship if nothing else. How many times have the SADC leaders told MDC to follow the GPA roadmap but all to no avail? In sheer frustration SADC leaders have public criticized Tsvangirai and MDC accusing them of enjoying their time in the GNU and forgetting they were there to implement the reforms.

The West, SADC and many ordinary Zimbabweans have fought hard to get Tsvangirai and MDC to use their political mandate to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship. Sadly Tsvangirai was to naïve and incompetent to accomplish that task preferring instead to appease the tyrant and his cronies and to indulge in cosmetic changes to give the autocratic political system democratic façade.

CNN’s Becky Anderson was stating the obvious when she said Tsvangirai and MDC had made Mugabe and the Zanu PF dictatorship “legitimate”. Now Tsvangirai is blaming the West and SADC of turning a blind eye to Mugabe election fraud and thus legitimizing the fraud.

The truth is it was Tsvangirai and not the West, SADC or anyone else, who had the political mandate to implement the reforms and thus stop Mugabe holding yet another fraudulent election. By failing to implement the reforms Tsvangirai per se accepted fraudulent elections. As for the West, SADC and the rest of us; we were merely presented with a fait accompli.

“Why would Zanu PF invest in rigging an election rather than invest in making sure that we have a credible outcome,” asked Tsvangirai at one point. Well, how naïve is that!

Despite his reservations about the playing field and the role of the West, Tsvangirai was adamant he would romp to victory in the July 31 poll.

“Actually, I am very bullish about the outcome of this election. It will indicate to you how resilient the people of Zimbabwe are. Indeed it will surprise you that in spite of the violence, the shenanigans that are taking place,” he said.

Well that is the proverbial frog who claimed to put out the forest fire with his fart speaking and who is to stop him! He can talk and fart and the forest fire will rage on regardless.

The moral of this tragic event is that Zimbabwe had a in the last five years a really good chance to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship but wasted it because man the nation elected to lead them, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, is breathtakingly incompetent and naive. The nation is going to pay dearly for this blunder.

Hopefully the nation will learn out of this the importance of electing competent leaders - a prerequisite of getting out of this hell hole! Up to now the people thought that anyone, anyone at all, as long as he or she was not Mugabe would them out of this mess; well Tsvangirai did not get them out of the mess but instead help extend Mugabe’s autocratic reign of terror!