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« Reply #75 on: March 04, 2010, 02:53:46 AM »
Faisal II

Come on guys, bad ones are fine also...
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« Reply #76 on: March 04, 2010, 03:02:41 AM »
Faisal II

Why the hell should such irrevelant and weak monarch stay?
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« Reply #77 on: March 04, 2010, 01:41:33 PM »
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« Reply #78 on: March 04, 2010, 06:08:29 PM »
It was narrow, but with 4 votes for Faisal I and 3 for Faisal II, Faisal I gets knocked off.



I always thought the guy in the back row looked so out of place.  You see that image several hundred times, you start noticing these things.

Anyway, it's time for the final round.  Vote for the one you WANT TO WIN.

Faisal II was a minor for most of his reign.  During his reign, there was a pro-German coup to end British influence that utterly failed (the Iraqis wanted freedom, the Nazis wanted Iraq's oil to not be in British hands), and a growth of Western influence.  He was anti-Nasserist and towards the end proposed a union with Jordan to concentrate Hashemite power.  He ended up dead in a 1958 coup.

Speaking of that 1958 coup, our other contestant, Abdul Karim Qasim, was one of the major coupsters.  Qasim's government was initially very close to Nasser (see the three-star Iraq flag), but ended up breaking away from Nasserism.  He was an adamant Arab nationalist and an ardent modernist, even proposing famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright redesign Baghdad(!).  He was killed in a Baathist coup in 1963, which was swiftly repressed and led to the tyrannical regime of the Arif brothers.
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« Reply #79 on: March 04, 2010, 06:10:51 PM »
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« Reply #80 on: March 04, 2010, 06:11:57 PM »
Qasim.  Can you imagine how awesome a Frank Lloyd Wright Baghdad would've been?
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« Reply #81 on: March 04, 2010, 06:21:34 PM »
Abdul Karim Qasim for the winz.
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« Reply #82 on: March 04, 2010, 06:26:42 PM »
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« Reply #83 on: March 04, 2010, 09:11:55 PM »
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« Reply #84 on: March 05, 2010, 02:48:37 AM »
Reluctantly and by default,
Qasim for survivor
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« Reply #85 on: March 05, 2010, 01:56:52 PM »
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« Reply #86 on: March 05, 2010, 07:32:35 PM »


King Faisal II fails to wake up one morning.

Three cheers to Abdul Karim Qasim!



You've been voted as the best least bad ruler in Iraqi history!
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