Group Three - World Leaders Survivor - STAGE ONE COMPLETE

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Wow this list is awful.

Kim Jong Ill has more than enough votes already, so I'll go with the Sultan of Brunei

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Omar al-Bashir

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Lukashenko

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Hassanal Bolkiah

da Silva

Um, wow. With people like Bolkiah, Nguesso, Putin, Mubarak, Rahmon and dos Santos even remaining you got after HIM?

I knew that american conservatives didn't like latino-american leftists, but that is just ridiculous. Lula and the others are not bloody dictators only because you don't like them.

Yes, Lula leads one of the freest countries on the continent, and is rather popular and has always respected democratic institutions. So for a Democrat to be so against him...

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Putin

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Rahmon

Whoa, what is with the wave of Netanyahu votes? At least Abbas before him.

Considering that Netanyahu is as bad as the Israelis get, and Abbas is as good as the Palestineans get (would you prefer Hamas controlling all the territories?) and both sides in general suck horribly...no.

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I was happy when Thaksin was overthrown, just because opebo didn't like him and he won elections via fraud and owning the media a la Berlusconi anyway. There's a reason all the opposition parties boycotted that joke of an election he called right before he was ousted.

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Thaksin was hardly democratic. I have a tough time believing he even cared about the poor, more like gave them handouts to buy votes. He was massively corrupt and engaged in cronynism, he cramped down on civil liberties and ethnic minorities and promoted xenophobic nationalism, had many prominent officials from former right-wing military regimes in his government and in his new party now, he manipulated the media, he openly violated election law and his electoral victories were also full of fraud. At the time of his overthrow his last joke elections were completely boycotted by the opposition, and he had lost all support internationally with the world wanting him to step down.

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Thaksin was hardly democratic. I have a tough time believing he even cared about the poor, more like gave them handouts to buy votes. He was massively corrupt and engaged in cronynism, he cramped down on civil liberties and ethnic minorities and promoted xenophobic nationalism, had many prominent officials from former right-wing military regimes in his government and in his new party now, he manipulated the media, he openly violated election law and his electoral victories were also full of fraud. At the time of his overthrow his last joke elections were completely boycotted by the opposition, and he had lost all support internationally with the world wanting him to step down.

How did he fraud himself back into power after the military ousted him? How did he control the media when his party was banned and he himself was exiled? And how is the fascist elite centred around the army and the king better in any way?

I'm talking about when he was in power.

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James Michel (Seychelles)

Read a bit about Seychelles, its former president René and his heir Michel, and you'll see he must go before Uribe.

Oh, so he took over from a guy who was a dictator, but then ruled as a basically democratic ruler for the last 10 or so years of his rule, and also thwarted the South African apartheid regime, and then his successor took over in democratic elections and has governed fairly since?

Not as bad as running death squads.

Uribe.

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Stephen Harper

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Pointless near-absolute monarchy or Stephen Harper? Hmmm...

Eh, what the hey. Stephen Harper. Let me put it this way, since I can't vote off Bush this time, I'll try for the next closest thing.

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Sarkozy

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I'd like to voice my disappointment in the leftist hacks for denying me the pleasure of taking part in voting Sarkozy off. I was really looking forward to that, but I'm not going to do it before a couple of other guys go.

Blame Earl. We only went after him because we couldn't go after Harper.

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Stephen Harper

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The only reason I didn't vote for Abdullah was his hot wife. He's not particularly good and still a near absolute monarch, and certainly not better than the democratically elected Sinoira, despite still being better than most of the countries' goverments, but that says more about the other countries than him.

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Stephen Harper

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Stephen Harper

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Massimo Cenci

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Lawrence Gonzi

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I don't see anything wrong with Colom.

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Alvaro Colom

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Roosevelt Skerrit