Why Topple Gbagbo?

Was Ivorian ruler Laurent Gbagbo an ideal leader? No, but he was on a par with or better than many of the other kleptocrats and psychopaths who have lorded over other African nations for years. Aggression against Gbagbo by France and UN troops in the service of a questionably elected Alassane Ouattara, whose forces have already been accused of massacre, smacks of a new colonialism developing that perhaps is also seen farther north on the continent in Libya. If there was sufficient rationale to remove Gbagbo and attack Qaddafi, then why not remove Robert Mugabe who lost an election but clung to power in Zimbabwe as world powers claimed Gbagbo had done in Ivory Coast? Mugabe has used his so called "war veterans" to brutally silence opposition and has driven whites from formerly productive farms with a campaign of murder that had the unintended consequence of starving the people of Zimbabwe after the white farmers had managed to turn that nation into the "breadbasket of Africa". If the world wants clean governance in Africa, there are vastly more rulers who should be ousted than should remain.