To: JasonC
And also the only reason Indonesia wasn't a totalitarian communist state throughout the cold war.To paraphrase someone whose name I've forgotten, he was a son of a bitch, but he was our son of a bitch.
To: ReignOfError
Frankly, he was a democratic despot. But he probably was better than anyone else available.
13 posted on
01/27/2008 12:27:00 AM PST by
Jemian
To: ReignOfError
Lots of folks said that about many other folks, but the earliesr might have been FDR’s Republican Secretary of State Cordell Hull regarding former dictator of the Dominican Republic Rafael Trujillo.
14 posted on
01/27/2008 12:28:25 AM PST by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(Mike Huckabee: If Gomer Pyle and Hugo Chavez had a love child this is who it would be.)
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