[drbuzzard]

Indeed. No Stalin, no Mao, no Pol Pot. That list was crap.

I mean even if you accept that most lefties defend Stalin and Mao, nobody except Chomsky has ever defended Pol Pot.

The very idea that Lee Harvey Oswald made the list is just plain loony. He doesn’t measure up to those standards at all.

[Vermont Lt]

I guess infamous for is probably defined as “whose name can we remember who was really bad?”

First you need to define the context.

Lee Oswald is infamous to the 180 million or so Americans, and a few others out there.

But to someone in Japan, I am sure the list would include Harry Truman and Curtis LeMay.

[Maceman]

Chomsky defended Pol Pot?

[Renderofveils]

The very idea that Lee Harvey Oswald made the list is just plain loony. He doesn’t measure up to those standards at all.

No Attila, either? Oswald's a snot-nosed punk compared to the man that made one of the greatest nations in history feel threatened by his existence.

[ETL]

What do Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Saddam and Hitler all have in common? All were SOCIALISTS. Saddam was leader of the Socialist Baath Party.

Nazi Party

The National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known in English as the Nazi Party (from the German Nazi, abbreviated from the pronunciation of Nationalsozialist[5]), was a political party in Germany between 1919 and 1945. It was known as the German Workers' Party (DAP) prior to a change of name in 1920.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party
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National Health Care: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945 [Nazi health care]
Does the Modern Bureaucratization of Medicine Risk a Return to the Horrors of National Socialist Medicine?

by Marc S. Micozzi M.D.

Today we are concerned about issues such as doctor-assisted suicide, abortion, the use of fetal tissue, genetic screening, birth control and sterilization, health-care rationing and the ethics of medical research on animals and humans. These subjects are major challenges in both ethics and economics at the end of the twentieth century. But at the beginning of the twentieth century the desire to create a more scientific medical practice and research had already raised the issues of euthanasia, eugenics, and medical experimentation on human subjects. In addition, the increasing involvement of the German government in medical care and funding medical research established the government-medical complex that the National Socialists later used to execute their extermination policies. ..."

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/national-health-care-medicine-in-germany-1918-1945/
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Saddam Hussein and the
Ba'ath Party student cell,
Cairo, in the period 1959-63
--wikipedia (article: Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party).

[chesley]

Good ol’ Lee WAS a left-wing loonie, though. That ought to give him extra credit. Still wouldn’t make the list.