Which dictator/leader/asshole will be the next to be tossed out of power due to a peoples uprising?

[Tx4obama]

Poll question: Which dictator/leader/asshole will be the next to be tossed out of power due to a peoples uprising?

1) Zine El Abidine Ben Ali - Tunisia - check

2) Hosni Mubarak - Egypt - check

3) Muammar Gaddafi - Libya - check

4) ???

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[Tx4obama]

2. That's what the 'other' is for.

At 3am it's hard to remember everyone :)

[ellisonz]

3. Greece is not a dictatorship.

It is a parliamentary representative democratic republic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Greece

Welcome to DU!:donut:

[Tx4obama]

5. Neither is Italy. But I put Berlusconi on the list because ...

he tries to run Italy as if he were a dictator ;)
And every time he gets run out of office he seems to be able to get back in!


On the other hand the President of Greece has only been president of Greece since 2005.

[ellisonz]

9. And in the process you missed a couple good candidates!

Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Thein Sein of Myanmar, and Omar al-Bashir of Sudan.

:P

[Tx4obama]

13. Thanks for adding them :) n/t

I'm off to bed. Goodnight and sweet dreams :hi:

[ellisonz]

4. Saleh

Yemen’s Saleh Faces UN Action as Qaddafi Killed
By Flavia Krause-Jackson - Oct 20, 2011 9:01 PM PT

A day after the death of Muammar Qaddafi, the United Nations Security Council that authorized bombing over Libya plans action against another despot clinging to power: Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh.

A vote is expected today on a proposed resolution calling on Saleh to implement a Gulf Cooperation Council-brokered deal, under which he would resign and transfer power to his deputy in return for immunity from prosecution for his family and inner circle.

The killing of the Libyan dictator yesterday resonated among the thousands of Yemenis who took to the streets of the capital Sana’a to renew calls for the end of Saleh’s 33-year rule.

“The end of Qaddafi has given us a strong boost that regardless of how much time our revolt will take, we will win and the fate of Saleh will be like that of Qaddafi,” Maher al- Haidari, a protester, said in an interview.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-21/yemen-s-saleh-faces-un-action-a-day-after-despot-qaddafi-killed.html

[joshcryer]

He'll step down under the GCC deal, he's trying to play hard ball but it won't work.

The US has drones, after all.

[ellisonz]

20. I don't think drones will have much too do with it. I'm not sure he'll step down either.

His own home-grown opposition put him the hospital for months in Saudi Arabia. I think Yemen is one country where we might be better off not taking an active role. Way to many factions, no unity is possible, it's probably better if they just duke it out themselves. If people have been paranoid out of what will come out of intervention in Libya - Yemen is a frightening prospect.

The clock is definitely ticking on Saleh x(

[joshcryer]

24. Oh, I don't see the drones being used, but the specter is looming, and he knows...

...if he escalates it much further he is a dead man. The US is cleaning shop in the middle east with despots that we once supported. Selah is only a matter of time.

[ellisonz]

25. I wouldn't say we've been cleaning shop exactly.

As much as people like to say we backed Ben Ali and Mubarak - those were largely strategic relationships (designed to keep Middle East peace and isolate Gaddafi) - not tangible let's put boots on the ground and/or intervene in the political process. The reason NATO intervened in Libya is because, as you and I both know, the massive humanitarian crisis. Tunisia and Egypt did not see that type of conflict because both Mubarak and Ben Ali gave up power. I think Saleh is a stubborn bastard and will fall somewhere in the middle; which is dangerous because he could destabilize Yemen even more, the country which out of those four has the bleakest future.

[whatchamacallit]

6. Let's kill everyone

After all it's the only way to be sure.

[Tx4obama]

8. The poll says NOTHING about killing. n/t

[Exilednight]

21. It's inferred, it's what Obama does best. n/t

[TBF]

36. +1 nt

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. Boner..USA

[calimary]

10. Beat me to it. Or one (or both) of the brothers koch?

[JustAnotherGen]

30. A girl can only wish!

;-)

[joshcryer]

11. Chavez was democratically elected, please fix your poll and remove him.

Venezuela has the cleanest elections in Latin America.

[Tx4obama]

12. Read the subject line

It says: dictator/leader/asshole

I believe Chavez falls into the asshole category :)

[joshcryer]

14. Maybe, but a democratic vote would not mean that there was a "citizen uprising."

[Tx4obama]

15. I changed the word 'citizen' to 'peoples'

And in the case of Italy I wasn't talking about /thinking about the citizens voting.
The Italians have been protesting against Berlusconi and they wouldn't have to vote him out, they could just force him out and make him resign.

Like when Romano Prodi was forced to resign.

[Tx4obama]

17. Oh lookie here ...

Italy: day of protests in 200 cities against Berlusconi
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8321277/Italy-day-of-protests-in-200-cities-against-Berlusconi.html


That's what I meant by a 'peoples uprising'.


Edited to add

5:35PM BST 15 Oct 2011
Cars burn, police and demonstrators injured as Rome rocked by most violent protests for years
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8829005/Cars-burn-police-and-demonstrators-injured-as-Rome-rocked-by-most-violent-protests-for-years.html

[joshcryer]

18. Fair enough.

But the Venezuelan opposition isn't going to relive 2002, imo.

[Tx4obama]

19. In my previous comment, I add a link to the newest protest.

Looks like it was pretty violent there a couple days ago.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

28. x

[UnrepentantLiberal]

22. Venezuela has very clean elections after Chavez has his opponents imprisoned.

[joshcryer]

23. Nah, he administratively disbars them from running, but that's a question of administration.

That's not a question of actual elections. The people of Venezuela may have more limited choices, but they do have a choice.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

29. Chavez baring his opposition from serving Venezuela is as bad as rigging an election.

Why you think it isn't is beyond me.

[joshcryer]

16. I think it'll be Saleh. So far the entire collapse in the Arab Spring has been US-backed despots.

The Obama administration has apparently changed US policy in the middle east for the better.

[pampango]

26. I was thinking Assad, but having Russia/China as your backers seems better for your longevity.

Saleh is a brutal weasel and obviously will do what he can to stay in power, but the trend of US-backed despots falling is hard to argue with.

[Tx4obama]

39. Here ya go :)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2174768

I think that is Saleh's arm the left of Assad :)

[DeltaLitProf]

27. Rupert Murdoch

His board and his stockholders are not happy. The guy has clearly lost it.

[DrDan]

31. in the words of Jon Stewart - "Look out Tony Blair"

<I think Jon S said it>

[Welibs]

32. Why don't you don't have Eric Cantor or Mitch McConnell on that list.

No worse dictators/leaders/assholes than Republicans!

[ThomWV]

33. I think the poll was for national leaders, not asshats and turtles

I can hardly bring myself to call the Virginia Asshat or the Kentucky Turtle a Leader in any sense of the word.

[Tx4obama]

38. Correct.

When I was in the process of typing out the poll options at first I had only the countries listed.
I guess when I added names along with the countries it might have muddy the waters.

[Enrique]

34. John Kasich

:bounce:

[hobbit709]

35. Which country has oil that TPTB want to get their hands on?

[Scuba]

37. Rupert.

[opihimoimoi]

40. I insist voting for Cantor, Boner, McConnel...the GOPers qually as ASSHOLEs