World leaders survey

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George W. Bush: disapprove
Jaques Chirac: disapprove
Tony Blair: disapprove
Jose Zapatero: approve
Vladimir Putin: strongly disapprove
Hugo Chavez: approve
Iyad Allawi: irrelevant
Ariel Sharon: he's half dead, so I'll spare calling him a terrorist
Mahmoud Abbas: disapprove
Osama bin Laden: disapprove.  although I admire him for rejecting a comfortable background to go live in a cave and fight for his conception of freedom.  I don't share his ideology nor approve of his tactics, hence disapprove.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: approve
Islam Karimonv: fascist, and simply a mircocasm of what has befallen that region since the collapse of the USSR
Saparmurat Niyazov: unfamilar
Fidel Castro: extremely mixed.  Upon his death, I'll cry for the young lawyer who led resistance against the fascist regime in place in the 40s and 50s, and the man who liberated Havana on new years' day, not the sellout to the statecapitalist sugar daddy and the guy who killed thousands in the 60s.
Robert Mugabe: disapprove.  dolt
Kim Jong-Il: extremely horrible person
Hu Jintao: fascist
bandit73: irrelevant

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Vladimir Putin -- 5 / 7

Why?

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Also, why are people sympathetic to Hu Jintao?  apparently it's perfectly fine to commend capitalist dictators while spewing hatred at democratically elected socialist like Chavez.

Jintao and Putin are immeasurably worse than Chavez.  Yet people here commend the 'competence' of those two while bashing the left for its admiration of Chavez.