The Nation | Blog | The Daily Outrage | Outrageous Outtakes | Ari Berman: "There are certain lists you don't want to be on. For example, Parade Magazine's annual round-up the world's ten worst dictators. This year, Sudan's Omar al-Bashir tops the list, followed by North Korea's Kim Jong Il and Myanmar's Than Shwe, none of whom can be called friends of the US. But dictators four through eight (Hu Jintao-China, Crown Prince Abdullah-Saudi Arabia, Muammar al-Qaddafi-Libya, Pervez Musharraf-Pakistan, Saparmurat Niyazov-Turkmenistan) are allies in the US war on terror. Moreover, US oil companies have done $5 billion worth of business with Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema, tyrant number ten."

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