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15 comments to "Before They Were Despots: Dictators and Their Old Jobs"
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redstripe
February 2nd, 2007 at
11:28 am
Interesting (though shouldn’t the third one read “Mussolini, the Frustrated Author“?)
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Alex
February 2nd, 2007 at
3:34 pm
Yes you’re right redstripe - I’ve fixed the typo, er … wordpo.
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Kim_Jung_Il
February 2nd, 2007 at
4:00 pm
What was George Bush?
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TonyD
February 2nd, 2007 at
6:17 pm
A failed businessman. He was in the oil business before his company Arbusto went bust (surprise). He then was involved in a number of other ventures whose successes can be measured as an inverse of Bush’s actual involvement in operations.
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zounds
February 2nd, 2007 at
6:19 pm
GB was a failed business (oil…surprise) man
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Uri R.
February 2nd, 2007 at
6:28 pm
What was Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez? Because now, after Congress gave him special powers to rule by decree, he can finally be considered a dictator.
This measure is supposed to last 18 months, but since he is the supreme ruler I guess in the 17th month he could simply modify it and decide that he will rule by decree for life.
I just hope he suffers a heart attack and dies one of these days.
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Thomas
February 2nd, 2007 at
7:23 pm
You may not like his politics but George Bush is definitely NOT a dictator.
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Mr JiggyFly
February 2nd, 2007 at
8:19 pm
“When the Vietnamese came to the rescue and invaded Cambodia in 1979, Pot retreated to the jungle, though he continued to orchestrate guerilla attacks until his arrest in 1997.”
Vietnam invaded and occupied Cambodia for 10yrs.
They did not rescue or save any Cambodians.
All they did was start a new war and prolong the suffering of the Cambodian people.The Viets are actually responsible for half of the land mines laid in Cambodia.Vietnam is the backer of present day evil,murderous Hun Sen regime in Cambodia -
Jeffrey Henderson
February 2nd, 2007 at
8:37 pm
What do you mean Bush isn’t a Dictator? He stole two elections, he rules by decree (signing statements) and he asserts the power to do whatever he wants as our “commander in chief”
If that’s not a Dictator then what is?
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Ricky
February 2nd, 2007 at
9:50 pm
According to the book “Behold a Pale Horse” (the author’s name escapes me) While George Bush Sr. was in office, he got congress to pass a law giving the office of President the authority to pass what are called “Executive Orders”. These orders have all the enforcement of a law, without having to have congressional approval. If that’s true, then technically we’ve had dictators ever since.
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Robert
February 3rd, 2007 at
12:02 am
Ricky, Executive Orders have been around since George Washington’s day. They’re simply orders from the president to officers in the executive branch as to how they should carry out the laws passed by Congress. A necessary action because all laws have certain levels of ambiguity. Congress can, and does, override executive orders by revising statutes and the courts occasionally find executive orders illegal or unconstitutional.
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Alex
February 3rd, 2007 at
12:49 am
Behold a Pale Horse, written by William Cooper, is described by Amazon as:
The author, former U.S. Naval Intelligence Briefing Team Member, reveals information kept secret by our government since the 1940s. UFOs, the J.F.K.. assassination, the Secret Government, the war on drugs and more by the world’s leading expert on UFOs.
Product DetailsHm…. I wouldn’t call that highly reliable.
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Alex
February 3rd, 2007 at
12:51 am
Ricky, here’s a list of Executive Orders signed by current and past presidents: Link.
As you can see, it went well before George HW Bush.
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Mumbo
February 3rd, 2007 at
9:55 am
Hey bush was an ex-ball player manager!
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John
February 6th, 2007 at
10:50 am
Where is Bush?
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