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January 21, 2006
Karimov - No longer a contender
Moonbat David Wallechinsky's annual Ten Worst Dictators has been released. A virtual Who's Who of the United Nations, U.S. President George W. Bush did not make the list.
The top three has not changed, Sudan's genocidal Omar Al-Bashir retained his number one spot, followed by Kim Jong-il of North Korea and Than Shwe of Burma is still holding at number 3. Zimbabwe's Mugabe, whose government has killed or tortured and displaced nearly 100,000, made the jiump from number 9 to number 4. His mother must be proud.
Last year, I was surprised to find that Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov didn't make the list, and this year, he jumped to number 5! I guess boiling people alive does count for something after all, or maybe he made it just because he's rumored to be Bush buddy. Gotta keep the fires hot under El Presidente!
Speaking of El Presidente, its interesting to note that the Liberal's darling dictator, Fidel Casto, is conspicuously absent from the top ten, as he was last year. Castro did make it as a contender this year, as he did last year, however, he dropped down two spots to number 15. That's practically bottom of the barrel for old Fidel.
Muammar al-Qaddafi got bumped from the top ten but there is no explanation for his demotion, other then that he "made his peace with the outside world by renouncing his quest for weapons of mass destruction and opening his oil fields to foreign companies." Perhaps the fact that criticizing Qaddafi is considered a crime punishable by death had something to do with it.
Number 6 from last year, bumped down to number 10 on the list is Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who has declared: “There is no poverty in Guinea.” Rather, “The people are used to living in a different way” while the bulk of the country's oil income goes directly into his U.S. bank. His people survive on about $1 a day. Last year, state radio announced that Obiang “is in permanent contact with the Almighty” and “can decide to kill without anyone calling him to account and without going to Hell.”
Posted by LindaSoG at January 21, 2006 10:46 AM