What do almost all war criminals and dictators have in common? | Mickey Z.

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Vice President Dick Cheney in Iraq. March, 2008. By soldiersmediacenter (iraq) CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Jan. 17, 2016

For many people, the term “war criminal” means swastikas and concentration camps. Give it further thought and the more open-minded among us may recall grainy black-and-white images of My Lai. Hear the word “dictator” and perhaps your mind’s eye conjures up Hollywood-inspired images of Third World “banana republics.”

In reality, however, living under the yoke of relentless necrophilic rule provides an endless supply of despots, war-mongers, and the inevitable atrocities they command and commit. These criminals come from all walks of life, from every corner of the globe, e.g. Mobutu of Zaire, the Shah of Iran, Noriega of Panama, and Marcos in the Philippines -- to name but a few.


Manuel Noriega. By U.S. Marshals Service in Miami, Florida (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

From Harry Truman and his terror bombing of Japan to Saddam Hussein’s mass murders in Halabja. From Suharto’s bloody rise to power in Indonesia to the Contras making Reagan proud in Central America. From Ariel Sharon in Sabra and Shatila to Henry Kissinger’s legacy amongst the Vietnamese, the Kurds, the Chileans, the East Timorese, the Bangladeshis, etc. etc. etc.

From the earliest of recorded history right up to Barack Obama and his drones, his kill list, and his Nobel Peace Prize, ruthless rulers are ubiquitous and seemingly inevitable.

But what do almost all of them have in common?

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[niyad]

1. some got it.

[jehop61]

2. Pure

Bull-ticky. Go somewhere else.

[immoderate]

3. Unchecked power?

--imm

[bemildred]

4. Margaret Thatcher.

But he is right, most of them have dicks.

[Journeyman]

5. Almost all- & the exceptions were almost all guards, administrators & other low-level functionaries…

While the main perpetrators were largely dicks, in so many horrid ways. . .