State Dept. Official Hails Che Guevara as Symbol of Freedom

[hoosier_daddy]

Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50) 49-78,000,000
Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39) 23,000,000 (the purges plus Ukraine's famine)
Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945) 12,000,000 (concentration camps and civilians WWII)
Leopold II of Belgium (Congo, 1886-1908) 8,000,000
Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44) 5,000,000 (civilians in WWII)
Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915-20) 1,200,000 Armenians (1915) + 350,000 Greek Pontians and 480,000 Anatolian Greeks (1916-22) + 500,000 Assyrians (1915-20) 
Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79) 1,700,000
Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94) 1.6 million (purges and concentration camps)
Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78) 1,500,000
Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970) 1,000,000
Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982) 900,000
Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994) 800,000
Suharto (East Timor, West Papua, Communists, 1966-98) 800,000
Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88) 600,000
Tito (Yugoslavia, 1945-1987)  570,000 
Fumimaro Konoe (Japan, 1937-39) 500,000? (Chinese civilians)
Jonas Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002) 400,000
Mullah Omar - Taliban (Afghanistan, 1986-2001) 400,000
Idi Amin (Uganda, 1969-1979) 300,000
Yahya Khan (Pakistan, 1970-71)  300,000 (Bangladesh) 
Benito Mussolini (Ethiopia, 1936; Libya, 1934-45; Yugoslavia, WWII) 300,000

[August West]

The commies destroyed Cuba? Right. Batista only killed 20,000 Cubans and tortured who knows how many. It was the most miserable place in the western hemisphere.

[hoosier_daddy]

yeah, but it was right wing murders and executions.  that's better than communist murders. 

[jackbp]

That's it Hooty....a list of "The Worst Genocides In The 20th Century"?

These were all "firing squads"?

Che isn't even on the list and he was DIRECTLY responsible for the actions of the firing squads. This is typical of our left wing pals....smoke and mirrors and a tsunami of bullshit!

Mao Ze-Dong....49-78 MM?? 29,000,000 in the dash ( - ) somewhere....TWENTY NINE MILLION in a "maybe"? Who in God's creation came up with that figure?

Folks.....you are witnessing a left winger in his finest hour.....he goes out and googles "ONE" list of bullshit numbers and posts it as his proof extraordinaire as to his exemplary abilities to produce actual facts.

That's a 37.2% margin of error there Hooty.....Gallop would bitch slap the shit outta you........excellent......

Stay tuned folks....we're about to get another tourettes avalanche of professional vulgarity.

[hoosier_daddy]

show something that disproves the number, asshole.  if only you could read, maybe you could eliminate about half of your stupid shit posts, jackoff.

[hoosier_daddy]

how many people that witnessed the executions were allowed to talk about it, you fucking idiot?  those are least to most estimates...when you get that far above 20 million or so, it is kinda hard to keep up, you ignorant fuckstick.

[jackbp]

Excellent reasoning...if I were scoring the "pinnacle of mongoloid reasoning".......Guffaw!!!

[darkflower]

You people act like Che was the worst ever when the cia back dictator he helped overthrow, batista, was even worse. Get a clue you capitalist pigs. Maybe if the cia had not existed to help dictators then there never would have been a need for people like Che to free countries from their rule. Blowback after blowback and still the imperialist swine continue to do the same old crap, overthrowing governments that don't support amerikan (business) interests enough. 2 wars right now with 1 war that is not a war per obama all of them about overthrowing governments amerika dislikes. HYPOCRITS. Here is a thread where you all talk trash about a guy who has been dead for decades and all the while you yourselves support much worse that is going on right now, today.

And he was not praised for freedom, dumb ass. He was mentioned for being revolutionary, for overthrowing power. That was the comparison. Like David and Goliath.

[hoosier_daddy]

how do these bozos remember how to tie their shoelaces?  no brain power going on.   they actually read what that guy said and think it was praising che or showing reverence or whatever the hell they somehow inferred.  no wonder they are right wingers, they are almost totally stupid.

[jackbp]

dark....we're talking about Che...OK? We're not talking about the CIA, Batista, Commies, and all the other cloaxa maxima you've brought along with your off-topic post....try and keep up please....

[hoosier_daddy]

you were the one listing how naughty che was, bitch.  compared to other right wing and communist dictators and henchmen, he ain't shit...

[sweetwater5s9]

 Ernesto Guevara failed spectacularly at everything he attempted in his life--except at the mass-murder of defenseless men and boys. But he had the great fortune of linking up with the 20th century's top publicist: Fidel Castro, who hatched and propagated (with the aid of his ever-faithful media and academic accomplices) the Che legend, of which nothing is true.
 
We don't have to speculate about Che's ideals. They're on full display 90 miles south of Florida--a Stalinist police state where the regime mandates what its subjects, read, say, earn, eat (both substance and amount), where they live, travel or work. Che's dream wasn't to convert Latin America into Sweden--he wanted to convert it into Stalin's Soviet Union.
 
Che's cachet as the worldwide symbol of Anti-Americanism let's him get away-- not just with murder--but with Mass-murder. That Anti-American cachet (the gallant David's against the American Goliath) seems to excuse all the horrors of the Cuban revolution for much of the worldwide intelligentsia.
 
And it's that "anti-American" cachet attached to Che that accounts for the thundering block-headedness of so many otherwise rational people. The legend of that handful of long-haired, bearded beatniks who overthrew a "brutal U.S.-backed dictatorship that repressed and impoversished Cuba," (When in fact Cuba had a higher standard of living in 1958 than half of Europe, a larger middle class than Switzerland, a more highly unionized work force than the U.S., more doctors and dentists per capita than Great Britain, more cars and televisions per capita than Canada or Germany, was inundated with immigrants.... I could go on.
 
 
If those conditions represent "Yankee-exploitation" then other Latin-American nations should have been half as lucky as Cuba. And if a Stalinist police-state that mandates a monthly salary of $12 dollars a month and food rations lower than Cuban slaves ate in 1848 for its subjects, and where donkey-powered rickshaws have become a luxury item, and where the hottest items on the black market are styrofoam (to build a raft) and ping pong paddles (to paddle away with)--if conversion into such a place constitutes "liberation"....well.
 
 
Humberto Fontova