Ok Ok we all know the list of LEFT WING dicators

[nadinbrzezinski]

that caused all kinds of hate and discontent during the 20th century. Here is the greatest follies of the RW over the course of the 20th century and I am sure I am going to miss a few... so feel free to complete

Generalisimo Francisco Franco, quite the boyscout.
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler.
El Duce Benito Mussolini.
Hiro Ito
Batista
Pinochet... yep quite the good man, really.
The Argentinian junta
The Brazilian Junta
The Colombian Junta...
I give up South American Juntas, everybody had one... Chile is in particular quite bad
Who can forget the fun and games in Guatemala in 1954?
Our good friend Somoza
Our good friends in El Salvador
Of course then there are a few of our friends in Africa, including our friends in Pretoria.
Yes, believe it or not Sadam Hussein (A client state of both the USSR and us)... The Shah of Iran... and of course Mubarak.
Kadaffi at some times, but he was a really not that good of a friend... for anybody... let's be honest.
The Turkish Government.
The South Vietnamese government.
You could make the argument South Korea for a while.

I could go on...

Suffice it to say... the cold war was a who's who of friends and enemies and some of them were all but nice... and the ones I have listed here, with the exception of Hussein, were mostly to the right of Atila the Hun.

[Dawson Leery]

1. Pinochet should be the Teabaggers mascot.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Careful they might get ideas about stadiums

and dirty wars.

[LiberalLoner]

23. My teabagger father thinks Pinochet was a great man and a great leader. n/t

[JVS]

3. "You could make the argument South Korea for a while."

Huge understatement on your part there.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. I know, thanks

[JVS]

4. Ferdinand Marcos

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. I ALWAYS forget him, I don't know why.

But the shoe collection, oh my

[Amonester]

7. ho chi minh (alright, not RW!)

Ed: Searched the name. :hi:

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Chiag Kai Shek

But Ho actually was more to the real center left... than left. Why he became a hero of the NVA, and the trail was named after him

[rpannier]

20. He died in 69 and never ruled all of Vietnam

Had there been elections he would have beaten Diem

[RandySF]

8. I would place the Taliban on the right.

The same goes for the Iranian regime as well as the Burmese government.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. And you'd be correct

a sub chapter tittled RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISTS are us.

[demosincebirth]

11. Oh no, not the Taliban...

:sarcasm:

[LeftishBrit]

21. Agree on all of these

I don't think you could *get* much further right than the Taliban.

[jmowreader]

12. Add the House of Saud to that list

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Thank you

bahrain too... as well as a few other Arab states... (Not Syria by the way).. but how about Jordan?

[Kablooie]

14. I was surprised to learn that Hitler was considered LEFT wing early in Nazi history.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Fascism is right wing and as far as I know

he was always considered that, and he referred to himself as that. Regardless, early in the 1920s, when the SA started the fights with the SDP, and they were fights, the party was not clearly defined. It was until Adolph took it over that it became what we know it as. The National Socialists were really a FRINGY small party that the security forces hired adolph to infiltrate.

(Ane this is why the Tea party should scare us... to a point... there are very few parallels but the fringy part is one of them)

[ProgressoDem]

15. Franco... the man who William F. Buckley adored. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Well he did create a very well ordered country

you know...

:sarcasm:

[AverageJoe90]

18. Don't forget the the Ayatollahs in Iran or the Kings of Saudi Arabia, either.

'nuff said.

[rpannier]

19. You could make the argument South Korea for a while

Park Cheong-hee
His daughter plans on running for president

[LeftishBrit]

22. The Greek colonels

Salazar and Caetano of Portugal

Milosevic et al in (former) Yugoslavia

Although Pol Pot was nominally a *left*-wing dictator, he got quite a lot of support from the American Right.

Suharto of Indonesia

Practically all Middle Eastern rulers, whether pro- or anti-Western, or in the case of some such as Saddam Hussein, both at different times.

Omar al-Bashir of Sudan

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. As I said far from inclusive

and I am sure we are still missing a few.

:hi: