I'm convinced that Dick Cheney is one of the top ten...

[Virginia Dare]

most abominable human begins that ever walked the Earth. He's fits easily into the company of Caligula, Hitler, Atila the Hun, Pol Pot and the like. Who knows, when and if all of his actual deeds come to light, he might even make top five.

[dipsydoodle]

1. Thought you were going to say

Dickheads of all time.

[Virginia Dare]

3. That works too..

he makes many many lists, none of them positive or uplifting.

[Submariner]

2. 5 deferment Cheney is a yellow-bellied draft dodging COWARD

and the slimiest POS war-profiteer of our times.

[Captain Hilts]

11. No, he just had "different priorities," get your story straight!

http://www.pbase.com/torskphotoguy/image/93337814

[Submariner]

13. Me thinks the some of the stuff in the Control Room came from

the Torsk Bandits raiding my old Sailfish (572) a few years ago. But it looks like the museum boat crew are keeping the brass shiny.

http://www.h2orbit.com/Images/SINKEX.wmv

[Captain Hilts]

14. Actually, no, BUT...

we did get a toilet, some radio equipment and MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL - our plexi bubble for the conning tower from Sailfish...

We recently got a lot of control room equipment off ex-Trout in the Philly Navy Yard. What a moldy, sweaty day that was...

Paminito took some of our conning tower electronics and the Commonwealth of MD made us remove the main depth gauges because of radium in them. No kidding. They're in the Washingotn Navy Yard now.

One of our periodic volunteers - he lives in Maine - is a former Sailfish sonarman. Great guy.

[Submariner]

16. Well many of us are glad the Bandits got the bubble and

other stuff off for good use instead of sending it all to the bottom. The Torsk is a must visit when I get to the Baltimore waterfront sometime.

[Captain Hilts]

17. Give me a 'heads up' before you hit town and...

I'll get you through before the touristas. We can even stuff you in a tube for a photograph!

Check out www.usstorsk.org

[Submariner]

18. When I'm comin' that way I'll PM you. Thanks. n/t

[CrispyQ]

4. I could not agree more.

Evil personified.

[theoldman]

5. Attila the Hun does not fit into this group.

You need to re-read your history.

[Sequoia]

20. Heh, heh....at leas Hannibal wasn't on the list.

Not Lector.

[Virginia Dare]

22. The Romans would disagree..

but I guess I'm just thinking in terms of people who were known for terrorizing others.

[madokie]

6. I agree with you wholeheartedly

[Captain Hilts]

7. My USA Top Ten

in no particular order but with an obvious 20th Century slant...

Dick Cheney
GWBush
Joseph P. Kennedy
Roy Cohn
Nancy Reagan
Joseph McCarthy
Richard Nixon
J. Edgar Hoover
Ed Meese
The tobacco executives that lied under oath to Congress

[LiberalEsto]

8. You forgot Prescott Bush

the Nazi-lovin' grandpa

[Captain Hilts]

10. There were others, like Lindbergh, and the effect was minimal, even if the intent...

was evil.

[TahitiNut]

15. ... and Henry Ford and Fr. Charles Coughlin

:shrug:

[Virginia Dare]

21. Why Nancy over Ronny?

because she covered up his illness?

Also, why aren't Poppy and Bar Bush on that list, they gave birth to the cretin in the White House.

I'd also probably include Gerry Ford for pardoning Nixon and for helping to cover up those who were really behind JFK's assassination, and John Foster Dulles who ushered in the Viet Nam FUBAR. Hell, there's so many.

[indepat]

9. If only there were a way to impeach and convict and remove from office, but

Genghis Cheney seems to be able to operate unimpeded in his march to fulfillment of the neocon PNAC wet dream of death, destruction, and unimaginable greed. :D

[patrice]

12. What's truly horrifying about Cheney is how "ordinary" he is.

In Eichman in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt documents how prosaic Evil is.

I believe it. The sum-and-total of ALL of our crimes, by far mostly "small" shortcomings and weaknesses, achieves Critical Mass when a relatively ordinary person, such as Cheney, comes along and makes relatively rational decisions that trigger Horror.

Though Cheney is a catalyst, it's not just Cheney; it IS us.

[Sequoia]

19. Yeah, I'd say top five.

When I see his high school photo were he looks like the well-scrubbed farm boy I have to wonder...WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED !!! Was he always mean and creepy? How did his classmates or adults at that time preceive him? When did he sell his soul to the devil?