[Bon mots]

Hey, Mussolini made the trains run on time and Hitler eliminated the communists from Germany. Are you going to offer Sainthood to those folks as well?

They were leftist monsters and left death and destruction in their wakes. Pinochet only put on a necessary revolution to save his country. He had seen enough of its destruction at the hands of Allende and his band of incompetent Marxists.

The left was preparing to do the same, so Pinochet did it in self defense, and then built a nation in a part of the world better known for economic misery. The Rettig Commission's wildest claim is that Pinochet killed a paltry 2000 Commies and agitators to stabilize the country. We killed a million Vietnamese and did not successfully staunch Communism in that nation.

The left also said the same of Lee Kuan Yew - father of Singapore. He was an authoritarian. A dictator. Hitler for Chrissakes. But he built the most prosperous nation in Asia - the Switzerland of Asia where everything works and is lovely. If you ever go there, I recommend the Chili Crab.

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Current standings at Dictatorofthemonth.com

(And the General doesn't even make the top 10.)

Rank/ Platz	Name	Country/ Land	Score/ Ergebnis
1	Adolf Hitler	Germany/ Deutschland	44.19
2	Josef Stalin	USSR/ UdSSR	43.57
3	Benito Mussolini	Italy/ Italien	39.25
4	Mao Zedong	China	39
5	Ho Chi Minh	North Vietnam/ Nordvietnam	34.25
6	Francisco Franco	Spain/ Spanien	34.02
7	Muhammad Reza Pahlavi	Iran	33.83
8	Vladimir Lenin	USSR/ UdSSR	33.75
9	Saddam Hussein	Iraq/ Iraq	33.5
10	Kim Il Sung	North Korea/ Nordkorea	33.5
11	Josip Broz Tito	Yugoslavia/ Jugoslawien	33.5
12	Deng Xiaoping	China	33.25
13	Augusto Pinochet	Chilé	33.04
14	Muammar Gaddafi	Libya/ Libyen	32.75
15	Kim Jong Il	North Korea/ Nordkorea	32
16	Park Chung Hee	South Korea/ Südkorea	32
17	Enver Hoxha	Albania/ Albanien	31.5
18	Ferdinand Marcos	Philippines/ Philippinen	31.5
19	Fidel Castro	Cuba/ Kuba	31.26
20	Janos Kadar	Hungary/ Ungarn	30.75
21	Haile Selassie	Ethiopia/ Äthiopien	30.57
22	Pol Pot	Cambodia/ Kambodscha	30,44
23	Fulgencio Batista	Cuba/ Kuba	30
24	Juan Peron	Argentina/ Argentinien	29.83
25	Francois Duvalier	Haiti	29.5
26	Charles Taylor	Liberia/ Liberien	29.33
27	Anwar Sadat	Egypt/Ägypten	29
28	Omar al-Bashir	Sudan	28.75
29	Meles Zenawi	Ethiopia/ Äthiopien	28.74
30	José Efraín Ríos Montt	Guatemala	28.5
31	Alfredo Stroessner	Paraguay	28.5
32	Erich Honecker	GDR/ DDR	28.3
33	Maumoon Gayoom	Maldives/ Maldiven	28.11
34	Nikita Khruschev	USSR/ UdSSR	27.95
35	Idi Amin Dada	Uganda	27.86
36	Ruhollah Khomeini	Iran	27.5
37	Mobutu Sese Seko	Zaire	27.5
38	Francisco Macias Nguema	Equatorial Guinea/ Äquatorialguinea	27.25
39	Klement Gottwald	Czechoslovakia/ Tschechoslowakei	27.25
40	Alecksander Lukashenko	Belarus/ Weißrußland	27.18
41	Saparmarut Niyazov	Turkmenistan	27
42	Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo	Equatorial Guinea/ Äquatorialguinea	26.83
43	Hugo Chavez	Venezuela	26.68
44	Tsar Nicholas Romanov II	Russia/ Rußland	26.5
45	Hissène Habré	Chad/ Tschad	26.5
46	Havez al-Assad	Syria/ Syrien	26.5
47	Mengistu Haile Mariam	Ethiopia/ Äthiopien	26.25
48	Slobodan Milosevic	Yugoslavia/ Jugoslawien	26
49	Manuel Noriega	Panama	26
50	Robert Mugabé	Zimbabwe/ Simbabwe	25.64
51	Islom Karimov	Uzbekistan/ Uzbekistan	25.58
52	Pervez Musharraf	Pakistan	25.25
53	Etienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma	Togo	25.25
54	Todor Zhivkov	Bulgaria/ Bulgarien	25.13
55	Isaias Afewerki	Eritrea	25.06
56	Jean-Bédel Bokassa	Central African Republic/ Zentralafrikanisches Kaiserreich	24.5
57	Ali Abdullah Saleh	Yemen/ Jemen	23.5
58	Samuel Kanyon Doe	Liberia	23.5
59	Levon Ter-Petrosyan	Armenia/ Armenien	23.17
60	Than Shwe	Myanmar	22.5
61	Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq	Pakistan	22
62	King Mswati III	Swaziland/ Swasiland	21.5
63	Sani Abacha	Nigeria	21.5
64	Yong Shikai	China	20.5
65	Wojciech Jaruzelski	Poland/ Polen	20.07