World Leaders Survivor - Bracket 1 (closed)

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King Fahd

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Omas Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir

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Bashar al-NixonNow

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George W. Bush

Immunity: Chavez

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Hassanal Bolkiah

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Silvio Berlusconi

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Silvio Berlusconi

immunity: Chavez

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Paul Biya

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i'd vote for chavez, but he has immunity, so Pope Benedict. No anti-Catholicism, but I kinda think he should never have been put on the island anyway.

ha, I'm going to try to get rid of him once Bush is gone.

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I'll give immunity to Chavez then.

George W. Bush

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Jacques Chirac.

Bloody leftist cabal in this bracket... *grumbles*

Chavez, Castro and dos Santos are the only leftists I see.

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Pope Benedict XVI

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Boniface Alexandre, I may not know who you are

Former Chief Justice of Haiti's Supreme Court, took over after Aristide was forced out as the next one in the line of succession. Hasn't really done much since then, just acted as president until the next election can be held (whenever that will be)

Don't see too much wrong with him, but I probably should've voted for him

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BRACKET 1

Boniface Alexandre - 4
Hugo Chavez - 9
Pope Benedict XVI - 1

It pains me to say this but the great Hugo Chavez has been eliminated.



Round 11 official begins now. First poster pick immunity please.

Here is a list of who is left:

1.   King Abdullah II (Jordan)
2.   Valdas Adamkus (Lithuania)
3.   Bertie Ahern (Ireland)
4.   Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (Somalia)
5.   Iajuddin Ahmed (Bangladesh)
6.   Prince Albert II (Monaco)
7.   Boniface Alexandre (Haiti)
8.   Ilham Alieyv (Azerbaijan)
9.   Kenny Anthony (St. Lucia)
10.   Owen Arthur (Barbados)
11.   Bashar al-NixonNow (Syria)
12.   Azali Assoumani (Comoros)
13.   Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (Malayia)
14.   Jan Peter Balkenende (Netherlands)
15.   Traian Basescu (Romania)
16.   Omas Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir (Sudan)
17.   Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (Tunisia)
18.   Kurmanbek Bakiyev (Kyrgyzstan)
19.   Pope Benedict XVI (Vatican City)
20.   Fabio Berardi (San Marino)
21.   Óscar Berger (Guatemala)
22.   Silvio Berlusconi (Italy)
23.   Paul Biya (Cameroon)
24.   Tony Blair (United Kingdom) [IMMUNITY]
25.   Enrique Bolaños (Nicaragua)
26.   Hassanal Bolkiah (Brunei)
27.   Kjell Magne Bondevik (Norway)
28.   Omar Bongo (Gabon)
29.   Abdelaziz Bouteflika (Algeria)
30.   François Bozizé (Central African Republic)
31.   Gyde Bryant (Liberia)
32.   George W. Bush (United States)
33.   Fidel Castro (Cuba)
34.   Hugo Chávez (Venezuela)
35.   Chen Shui-bian (Taiwan)
36.   Jacques Chriac (France)
37.   Perry Christie (Bahamas)
38.   Helen Clark (New Zealand)
39.   Blaise Compaoré (Burkina Faso)
40.   Lansana Conté (Guinea)
41.   Branko Crvenkovski (Macedonia)
42.   Idriss Déby (Chad)
43.   José Eduardo dos Santos (Angola)
44.   Denzil Douglas (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
45.   Janez Drnovsek (Slovenia)
46.   Nicanor Duarte Frutos (Paraguay)
47.   Nambaryn Enkhbayar (Mongolia)
48.   King Fahd (Saudi Arabia)

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As Earl will be here tommorow night to close this, I vote for Pope Benedict XVI

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Anyways, I vote again for the guy with a 6.5 2005 Freedom House rating.

Boniface Alexandre

well, it's not really his government that's the problem...

Summed up in a nutshell, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected President in 1990, forced out in a military coup in 1991 and until 1994 the country was ran by a military junta headed by Raoul Cedras. Pressure from the Clinton administration forced Cedras to abdicate and Aristide was reinstalled. Democracy was getting on track until a bunch of elements in the military got upset with Aristide and formed a bunch of militias and rebel groups that collectively became known as something like the National Front for the Liberation of Haiti. In 2005 they were able to seize control of most of the country and force Arisitide to flee. As Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Alexandre was next in line to assume the presidency, after he was sworn in the rebel groups agreed to a cease-fire and allowed UN peacekeepers into the country, but still control much of the countryside.

So while the official head of state Alexandre is mostly only a symbolic figure, the effective government is headed by militia leaders like Louis-Jodel Chamblain, which many human rights groups consider to be one of the top war criminals at large, and Guy Phillipe, a military officer who says the person he admires most is Pinochet. It's these guys that are the source of the lousy ratings mostly.

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Pope Benedict XVI

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Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed

(Nothing against him, he just doesn't belong here because he doesnt' really run his country)

Immunity: Boniface Alexandre

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Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed

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Abdelaziz Bouteflika

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Omar Bongo

immunity: Jose Eduardo dos Santos

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Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

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Lansana Conté

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Albert II

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Albert II