If you had the power, what countries would you back coups in?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Her'es the first couple on my list:

Signapore: a country that outlaws gum and has ultra-right wing economic policies. And according to Freedom House, is less free than the right wing's least favorite person, Hugo Chavez. Hypocrites. This country needs a socialist takeover fast.

Brunei: Another southeast Asia hellhole, ruled by an absolute monarch who hoards wealth, abuses women, and puts in more ultra-right wing economic policies. Get some hardline leftists in and this asshole out.

Saudi Arabia: Maybe Bush can actually deal with countries that support terrorism, even if the royal family happen to be friends of his. Anyone linked to those creeps is useless my view. So we need a government which removes those creeps, cracks down on Wahhabiism and terrorism and respects women.

If only I were CIA head...

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

hey, at least that'd make you better than than whoever was in charge during Nixon and Reagan's terms.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

And to think the loon still says he is not a Stalinist.

I now see he is right, he would rather be Stalin than support him.

so Reagan and Nixon are Stalinist?

I thought everyone wants to get rid of corrupt regimes.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

This was an interesting thread with the recent discussion.

Some additions:

China (and they better pull out of Tibet once the regime falls!)
Iran
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Zimbabwe
Sudan
Myanamar
North Korea (get a real leftist like Da Silva or Chavez in instead of that lunatic. Even a Castro would be better)
Syria (go PKK!)
Turkey (go PKK!)
and depending on soon to come events possibly Iraq. Allawi is just another Baathist thug

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I think everyone saying Pakistan doesn't realize there isn't really anyone much better who can take over.

Musharraf is an unelected dictator yes, but he's not as bad as far as those go. He's one of the most moderate Muslim leaders, assisted in defeating the Taliban, and is probably less corrupt than the last two Pakistani presidents, who while democratically elected were extremely corrupt and kleptocratic. There are a few Pakistani students at my university, and from what I've heard most Pakistanis have a fairly high opinion of him. I just hope doesn't go down the despot path.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Her'es the first couple on my list:

I'd support a coup in Singapore or Saudi Arabia. I never hear anything about Brunei, so I'm not too familiar with them.

Brunei is a small contry on an island that also contains parts of Indonesia and Malaysia. The ruler of Brunei is a sultan who's a huge mysognisitic asshole. He has a huge number of concubines, many of whom were kidnapped and forced into that, and has actually been known to use front groups such as talent agencies to lure women from countries like Japan and the US over where he uses them as sex slaves. There's a lawsuit from an American woman against his brother over this, she tried to sue him himself but apparentely you can't sue heads of state. BS. The man is pure scum and needs to be taken out. And to top it all off it has ultra-right wing neoliberal economics similar to Singapore.