What do you do with a dying dictator


	What do you do with a dying dictator

Unspun

1-8-2008 5:48 AM

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Unspun says:

He was adulated and when he fell from power he was reviled. Now the same people who pandered to him and spat at him are paying their (almost) last respects to him. The irony of it all.

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