Annual List Of...The World's 10 Worst Dictators

parade.com ^ | 21 January 2006 | David Wallechinsky

[coconutt2000]

Obviously a Democrat didn't compile this list... /humor

[Kimmers]

As evil as the dictators are, it makes me wonder if they have a sense of pride for being on this list.

[Salo]

Whoever did this missed Castro.

[irish guard]

>>>>>>Saudi women may not appear in public with a man who isn't a relative, must cover their bodies and faces in public and may not drive. <<<<<<

Think Hillary.....since Bill is never around..........um...........we need to adopt this right now!

[starfish923]

7) King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia. Age 82. In power since 1995. Last year's rank: 5

Harhar, if you knew how their system really worked, you wouldn't have him on your list.
The King has very little to say in anything, except perhaps, who he might want as a one-nighter.
Everything in his life is prescribed by Sunni law, Arab tradition and money (coming in, that is). If he strays from said path of dictatorial Sunni law, Arab tradition and money coming his, he is dead meat.
No Saudi has to be the hired assassin, the king's own family does the deed.

The dictatorship shouldn't be the individual himself, or even the kingship....it should be the Saudi system of government, power, tradition and money in.

[Tzimisce]

These guys are all Communists! Obviously a University guy didn't make this list.

[starfish923]

Whoever did this missed Castro.

You are right.
Since he's been dictator for 45 years and counting, it's a big miss.

[starfish923]

These guys are all Communists! Obviously a University guy didn't make this list.

Whoever made this list forgot the longest-dictating commie dictator, only 90 miles from Florida.....Fidel Castro.

"They broke Elian's bed....."

[Verginius Rufus]

Wallechinsky was born a Wallace, but went back to the original form of the family name before they came to America. His father is or was a well-known Wallace--I forget if he is the Mike Wallace of "Sixty Minutes" or someone else.

[I still care]

What, Bush isn't on it?

Seriously, it is good to see some attention getting paid to REAL tyrants who seriously oppress their people. People have gotten so irrational I bet a lot of leftists WOULD put Bush on it. They have no concept of what true evil is.

[StACase]

Obviously a Democrat didn't compile this list... /humor

Whoever did this missed Castro.

Perhaps a Democrat did compile this list (-:

[ikka]

They left out:

SCOTUS

[AlGone2001]

I see that they (purposely) missed Castro.

The humor of it all is that Saddam Hussein is not on the list.

[vikingd00d]

Castro's pretty much done all the damage he's going to do. I can see him getting dropped a notch or two due to inactivity.

[Lucky Dog]

Anyone notice the percentage of the list filled by adherents of the "religion of peace?"

[null and void]

Yeah, No Bush. Media bias alert!

[Squawk 8888]

Whoever did this missed Castro.

As bad as Castro is he hardly ranks top 10.

[stm]

Most likely because he's been deposed and is standing trial for war crimes. Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Franco are also missing from the list.

My parents used to comment that FDR was the closest this country every came to a dictator. Oddly enough, he was a Democrat {/sarcasm}

[WVNan]

The silver lining in that list is the age of the dictators. Won't be long until they find out how mortal they are.