Rant Here.......

Dictators seem to adore the sound of their own rhetoric don't they? But it's in the way that they talk that you can tell them for what they are - tin pot dictators. Here are the five ways to recognize a tin pot dictator like Chavez of Venezuela, Ahmadinejad of Iran, ex Iraqi dictator Hussein, Kim Jong of North Korea and all of those other past, present and future nobodies;

1. Playing with fire
Tin pot dictators just love weapons of war, buy them by the billion dollars worth even as their own people starve or while their country has a GDP equivalent to the village of Withernsea in East Yorkshire, England. It doesn't stop there though, they love to play war mongering and deliver threats to their neighbors and even resort to using their amassed weaponry often on their own citizens;

2. Uniforms
They love to wear military uniforms covered in medals and emblems even though they have never served in the military and if they did would faint at the first site of blood. It plays to their over inflated egos to march around like a jackass on steroids emulating the SS;

3. Threaten the USA
Yep - if you want notoriety, media coverage and the love of the World's disaffected just call America the Great Satan, its President an even greater Satan and threaten to cut off oil supplies or whatever you can. Its trendy to hate the States especially if you want to point attention away from your own problems.

4. Use Strange and Colorful Language
Not sure what school these folks go to. I guess somewhere there is a special school for future dictators that teaches them how to speak in terms you last heard as a 5-year old in the school playing fields. Terms such as 'mother of all wars', the great Satan; and all of those other childish and moronic insults that the rest of us forgot at age 6 in favor of real insults.

A Nuclear Obsession
5. Finally, but not least by any means - Tell the world you intend to develop nuclear weapons but only because you need to defend yourself against the coming imperialist American invasion and besides, you want your people to have electric power on the cheap.

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It's funny but in reviewing what I just wrote, George Bush qualifies in 4 out of the five categories. Strangely enough, the only category missing is dressing up in military uniforms - ahhhh but Georgie escaped serving in the military didn't he so I guess that explains that......