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2004-08-27 International-UN-NGOs
World's Worst Dictators for 2004
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Posted by Mike 2004-08-27 8:35:52 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Still think he’s overrated as a tyrant.

It sez "The world's worst," not the world's best. Where's Assad? Where's Khamenei? Kadaffy's not on the list?
Posted by Fred  2004-08-27 8:45:33 AM||   2004-08-27 8:45:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Kadaffy slipped a few notches when he gave up WMD. Baby Assad's a bush-league wannabee. I do agree that Iran should be in the top ten, though.
Posted by Mike  2004-08-27 8:55:00 AM||   2004-08-27 8:55:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Okay, Saudi Arabia's no picnic but the Sudan has rape gangs and genocide going on and they rate only 7th while Saudis get 5th? I think they should be reversed at the very least.
Posted by RJ Schwarz 2004-08-27 9:10:39 AM|| [http://politicaljunky.blogspot.com]  2004-08-27 9:10:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The list was probably not compiled using up-to-the-minute data. Look for Sudan to shoot up the charts next year.
Posted by BH 2004-08-27 10:19:23 AM||   2004-08-27 10:19:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Nah, Bush can easily reach top 3, IMO WORLD TYRANT NO 1.
Posted by Murat 2004-08-27 10:36:40 AM||   2004-08-27 10:36:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Murat, don't be a pig.
Posted by trailing wife 2004-08-27 10:50:04 AM||   2004-08-27 10:50:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Who were last year's 3,4,7,8, and 10?
Posted by chthus  2004-08-27 10:57:40 AM||   2004-08-27 10:57:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I said: The Moonbat Left will no doubt complain that Ariel Sharon and George W. Bush should be on the list somewhere.

Murat said: Bush can easily reach top 3, IMO WORLD TYRANT NO 1.

Thanks for validating my predictive genius, Murat.
Posted by Mike  2004-08-27 11:02:24 AM||   2004-08-27 11:02:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Kill an Armenian or Kurd today, hassol?
Posted by Frank G  2004-08-27 11:08:07 AM||   2004-08-27 11:08:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Looks like Murat has money on Bush to win the election.

If they do add us to the list, I want to see some land or resources to show for it. Not just a contested invasion like Iraq, but a full-blown conquest and appropriation. No sense acting civilized if we aren't going to get credit for it.
Posted by BH 2004-08-27 11:13:24 AM||   2004-08-27 11:13:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Yeah, the Turkmenbashi made the list! Woohoo!

In all seriousness, though, Hu Jintao isn't a dictator at all. He's just in the #1 spot in a huge system. He definitely doesn't have unlimited power like the other fellows.
Posted by gromky 2004-08-27 11:19:23 AM||   2004-08-27 11:19:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 that was uncivil of me, SW's correct. I apologize
Posted by Frank G  2004-08-27 11:21:12 AM||   2004-08-27 11:21:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Nah, Bush can easily reach top 3, IMO WORLD TYRANT NO 1.

Jeebus, and I try to defend you, Murat. C'mon buddy, open your eyes and re-read that list. Carefully. Twice. And then ask yourself whether George Bush is even capable of 1% of the depravity and evil that these ten men have manifested.

Hint: he isn't.
Posted by Steve White  2004-08-27 11:21:23 AM||   2004-08-27 11:21:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 It seems to me if Bush were a tyrant he should probably be doing a little better than just a two point lead in the polls.

It also seems there wouldn't be a hundred million dollar industry that exists solely to accuse him of being a bad guy.

Maybe these point are too difficult to understand for some people.
Posted by mhw 2004-08-27 11:33:34 AM||   2004-08-27 11:33:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 SAPARMURAT NIYAZOV: The reincarnation of a combination of Moe Howard and Chico Marx.

"Wanna buy a duck?"
Posted by BigEd 2004-08-27 12:00:34 PM||   2004-08-27 12:00:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 PC Police:
This is a racist list! Fidel is the only "White Guy" (don't you know that the PC police want us to have more white guys there?)

You forgot Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus.
If we put him there the PC police would be less agitated.
Posted by BigEd 2004-08-27 12:04:46 PM||   2004-08-27 12:04:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 No sense acting civilized if we aren't going to get credit for it.

BH is funning here (er, I guess), but I wonder how long before many Americans feel this way for real. Or Westerners in general. Generally, NGO's and many on the Left treat minor lapses among the civilized as far worse than the business-as-usual horrors of the barbarians.

Dibs on Alberta!
Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-08-27 12:10:50 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]  2004-08-27 12:10:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Angie: Yeah, I'm funning. Though I think we ought to annex France, since they're obviously intent on giving it away.
Posted by BH 2004-08-27 12:33:01 PM||   2004-08-27 12:33:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 I am partial to the south west corner of the Black Sea.
Posted by ed 2004-08-27 12:41:46 PM||   2004-08-27 12:41:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Gee, there seems to be someone missing from this top 10 this year. Who could that be?
Posted by Dar  2004-08-27 1:08:13 PM||   2004-08-27 1:08:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Saddam Hussein, retired 4/9/03.
Posted by Mike  2004-08-27 1:11:42 PM||   2004-08-27 1:11:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Murat, are you speaking on behalf of the women of Afghanistan or the Kurds of Iraq or the Bush-puppet Sistanni?
Posted by Tom 2004-08-27 2:25:37 PM||   2004-08-27 2:25:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Steve, you are speaking on behalf of the Americans, to you he (Bush) might not be that bad, but for the rest of the world he is. At the moment the mother of all tyrants.
Posted by Murat 2004-08-27 2:36:21 PM||   2004-08-27 2:36:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Murat, there is a difference between portrayal and reality.
Posted by FWTB-DLTR 2004-08-27 3:52:33 PM||   2004-08-27 3:52:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 Murat-If you can make this argument without dragging Iraq into it (which will just cause a traffic mess on Fred's website, and cause epithets to be thrown at you), how is Bush "that bad for the rest of the world"? Please give specifics.
Posted by Anonymous5256 2004-08-27 4:21:41 PM||   2004-08-27 4:21:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 Don't know how Anon5256 got in there-it's me.
Posted by jules 187 2004-08-27 4:23:03 PM||   2004-08-27 4:23:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 Could be time to call down the bedwettian,
Posted by Shipman 2004-08-27 5:22:12 PM||   2004-08-27 5:22:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 Mother of all tyrants? You can't be serious. Oh, you're Murat, of course you are, my bad...

There are 3 stages in the Murat Warning System.

Sometimes Murat just wants to be noticed...


Other times he really believes he has the truth and must impart it to us...


And then, sometimes, well he's just being an ass cuz he can...
Posted by .com 2004-08-27 5:34:31 PM||   2004-08-27 5:34:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 Piss poor perforamnce .com.
I'm an artiste... watch this action.

Roses are Red,
Violents are Purple,
Sugar is Sweet,
And I hate the USA and all is stands for and I want a green card.

I call this Turko/Amerikano Free Formo.
Free Mumia, Huey, Cyrpus, Lunch!


Posted by Shipman 2004-08-27 5:57:57 PM||   2004-08-27 5:57:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 Won't the guy in charge of Belarus be pretty teed off?
Posted by Super Hose 2004-08-27 7:10:44 PM||   2004-08-27 7:10:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#31 Lefto-conformists still spout the "US supports all dictators just because they are anti-communist" meme, just as they believe that Augusto Pinochet still runs Chile.
Base ignorance is the stock in trade of lefty agitators.
On another message board, a group of British dhimmi-whores (no doubt bought with either venture capital or academic grants) are STILL trying to argue with me that the ancient Greek astronomer Eratosthenes was an Arab, apparently just because he was born in North fucking Africa, which is now "Arab" (2250 years later).
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-08-27 7:42:14 PM||   2004-08-27 7:42:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#32 AC : Just cause Eratosthenes was born in what is now Libya?


Eratosthenes



Qadaffy



They look alike to me!

Posted by BigEd 2004-08-27 8:03:10 PM||   2004-08-27 8:03:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#33 Eratosthenes didn't say AFLAC all the time..
Posted by Frank G  2004-08-27 8:42:50 PM||   2004-08-27 8:42:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#34 I was going to post a joke about Bush.
Instead, we had a joke posting about Bush.
Posted by jackal  2004-08-27 10:12:54 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]  2004-08-27 10:12:54 PM|| Front Page Top

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