Who is your favourite dictator?

you know the score, limos, multiple wives and mistresses, exotic animals on leashes, private jets, cohorts with other despots etc while the people starve.

my favorite is Mobutu.
nutter who used to charter Concorde from france for shopping trips and owned a fleet of mercs and played other countries off against each other (russia belgium usa).
had peoples limbs torn off if they didn't agree with him.

one bad-ass mofo with a penchant for jaunty headwear

wtf not Gaddafi?

Edscoble

Great Thread!

Mine has to be Kamuzu Banda. He built a myth around him of supernatural powers to scare the people. I even lived in a neighbouring country and people feared that if they spoke ill of him they would be attacked by his mystical swarm of killer bees.

I like the African dude that marries all the young village virgins every year.

that's class (Banda)

Gaddafi is a definite fruitcake but i feel there are others less well known worthy of discussion

Tony fucking B.Liar
Middle east peace envoy WTF

Stalin or GTFO.

soup nazi in Seinfeld

Guiseppe Garibaldi, great name for a great biscuit.

TBH you can't beat a good Pharaoh and Amenhotep IV (Akhanaten) comes in top

Moved the capital to the middle of nowhere and demanded that his people worship the Aten plus knocked about pretty much everyone. Lej.

Having trouble deciding? Maybe this stellar team sheet will help:

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dictators[/ame]

The father-Son pairing of the Duvalier boys in Haiti size up well. The selling of your dead countrymen is a nice touch.

Steve Jobs

Idi Amin and Steve Jobs

snap!

Im quite a fan of Kim Jong Il.
Partly because of Team America
partly because of this list:
http://listverse.com/2010/05/30/top-10-crazy-facts-about-kim-jong-il/

Steve Jobs

nice!

Got to be Gambian Dictator Yahya Jammeh

http://www.freedomnewspaper.com/Portals/0/Ajjj%282%29.jpg

Saparmurat Niyazov (Turkmenistan)

Outlawed gold teeth and suggested the following to stengthen them:

I watched young dogs when I was young. They were given bones to gnaw to strengthen their teeth. Those of you whose teeth have fallen out did not chew on bones. This is my advice

Also banned Opera, Ballet, lip syncing (fair enough), the Circus, and smoking in public after he was forced to quit on health reasons.

Genius.

soup nazi in Seinfeld

No more soup for you!

I'd say Frank Costanza was a tougher and more eccentric ruler though. the man created his own religious holiday.

Any parking attendant from Newham.

If only Ferrell's Mugatu was real.

gaddafi has definitely got the illest threads...


definitely the most stylish dictator.

... and he's a hit with the ladies

Oh, he is: