Why dictators
Azad Miah, Oldham, UK
People in this country have been bombarded with some very intelligent TV programmes about all the big, ruthless dictators e.g. Hitler, Stalin, Saddam. The programme researcher or the narrator goes to extraordinary length to find out more about the childhood of these dictators. According to these programmes, most of these dictators had poor relationship with people right from the early age e.g. they have been betrayed by people they trusted, isolation, loneliness and so on. But one factor that is always given special attention to, is the relationship of these dictators with their fathers! John Simpson (BBC reporter) presented lots of analysis on Saddam during the Iraq war and he revealed how ruthless Saddam was and why he doesn't trust anyone, his doubles, his bad relationship with his father, his misconceptions about the real world and so on. We were told that, if US/UK invaded Iraq and if Saddam was really pushed to the corner (if the invading force threatened his rule), he will become very dangerous and will fight back with all sorts of nasty weapons. We were told that Saddam might use chemical/nuclear weapons and kill millions of Western and even Arab people. Now, if most of these dictators had very bad relationship with their fathers and if they were beaten and abused by their fathers, what I want to know is: What sort of relationship did Bush and Blair had with their fathers? Were they also abused and beaten by their fathers? How else do you explain their "dictatorial democratic" policies towards helpless people? I would love to watch some of those so-called "analysis" by BBC/CNN/Western-mouthpieces on these two men.
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