# Idi Amin Deathwatch and Condolence Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 21, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916 "2003-07-21T14:31:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/1 "2003-07-21T14:31:34Z")
Former Ugandan leader **Idi Amin** is on his [death bed](http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/21/amin/index.html). Too bad this rotten sonofabitch couldn’t die more slowly and painfully. Hypertension and “fatigue” just don’t seem agonizing enough for this blood thirsty bastard who slaughtered hundreds of thousands of his countrymen. He was also accused of cannibalistic practices and single-handedly set back the image of Africa a decade (at least). Some excerpts from the linked article: > [@](#): > > "According to the CIA World Factbook during his eight years in power Amin’s “dictatorial regime” was “responsible for the deaths of some 300,000 opponents.” > > Human rights groups say that figure is much higher, arguing that as many as 500,000 people were killed or simply disappeared under his rule. > > **Reports at the time said huge numbers of bodies were dumped into the Nile River after it became impossible to dig graves fast enough**." [sup]BOLDING ADDED[/sup] As he used to say: “Some of my best friends are hors d’oeuvres.” So, let’s all chime in with our sincerest and heartfelt sympathies for this particular specimen of evil. Uganda refuses to permit his body burial there. Three cheers for them. Zenster ---
**Author:** ![Tarantula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@Tarantula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarantula)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/2 "2003-07-21T14:35:01Z")
I’ll second that. What an awful person. The world will be better off without him. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/3 "2003-07-21T14:40:16Z")
Would that he had been killed when he was overthrown. This bastard doesn’t deserve the retirement he got. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/4 "2003-07-21T14:46:40Z")
he’s sick? Must of been someone he ate. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/5 "2003-07-21T14:48:28Z")
I’m dryly amused by the CNN story’s second paragraph: > [@](#): > > Amin, whose 1971 to 1979 regime was **one of** the bloodiest in African history Emphasis added. What a nice place Africa must be if Amin has competitors in the bloodiness race. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/6 "2003-07-21T15:00:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > he’s sick? > > Must of been someone he ate. Bwaaahahahahahahaha! Good one, **Bosda**! Why didn’t my perverted chef factotum think of that one? ---
**Author:** ![Publius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@Publius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Publius)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/7 "2003-07-21T15:11:28Z")
Say what you want about Idi Amin. Whatever faults he had, he was delicious. Or was that Gerald Ford? Oh yeah, I obviously hope he dies in short order and goes somewhere unpleasant. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/8 "2003-07-21T15:42:09Z")
Good riddance to bad rubbish. What an incredibly nasty man. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/9 "2003-07-21T15:57:31Z")
Such a happy little name. Such a big bad man. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/10 "2003-07-21T15:57:37Z")
Oh, okay. Glad to hear we can dance on _his_ grave. _takes part_ ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/11 "2003-07-21T16:55:32Z")
Who wants to get into a discussion of how a country that would willingly harbor such a man could be our _ally_ for so long? Perhaps there’s something underground? ---
**Author:** ![refusal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@refusal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/refusal)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/12 "2003-07-21T17:01:30Z")
While I would be the last person to say that killing half a million people is acceptable etiquette, can I just point out that he has the coolest name of just about any dictator in world history, with the possible exception of Pol Pot. What calibre of dictator-naming do we have now? Robert Mugabe or Charles Taylor? The president of Liberia is named after a sneaker, for fuck’s sake! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Calculus\_of\_Logic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@The\_Calculus\_of\_Logic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Calculus_of_Logic)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/13 "2003-07-21T17:19:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ElvisL1ves \* > \*\*Who wants to get into a discussion of how a country that would willingly harbor such a man could be our _ally_ for so long? Perhaps there’s something underground? \*\* they were willing to harbor Saddam Hussein too. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/14 "2003-07-21T17:21:08Z")
More than once, I have wondered what the hell he did for Saudi Arabia to make them take him in like that. Man, I wouldn’t have wanted him in MY country for a zillion Swiss bank accounts… ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/15 "2003-07-21T17:22:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > \*\*He was also accused of cannibalistic practices and single-handedly set back the image of Africa a decade (at least). \*\* Just a quibble, and I’m not defending the evil bastard, but he hasn’t really set back Africa’s image. It’s not like we would be respecting a place that has pygmie eating child warriors who prefer to go into combat naked if it weren’t for Amin. A place where AIDS continues to spread because of the widespread belief that raping a virgin will cure you of the disease can’t have it’s image harmed very much by one brutal divtator. A place where man-made famine and war are not only common, but the norm doesn’t have much of an image to protect. He’s just one more fucked up guy in a fucked up continent. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/16 "2003-07-21T17:39:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Just a quibble, and I’m not defending the evil bastard, but he hasn’t really set back Africa’s image. It’s not like we would be respecting a place that has pygmie eating child warriors who prefer to go into combat naked if it weren’t for Amin. A place where AIDS continues to spread because of the widespread belief that raping a virgin will cure you of the disease can’t have it’s image harmed very much by one brutal divtator. A place where man-made famine and war are not only common, but the norm doesn’t have much of an image to protect. > > He’s just one more fucked up guy in a fucked up continent. WOW. where to start. This kind of hateful ignorance and thinly-veiled racism may have something more to do with the negative image of Africa than any one of its dictators. Can we just leave the Anti-Africa slurs out of this? Or can we judge America on the basis of all the nasties that go on there? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/17 "2003-07-21T17:41:13Z")
If there is one person in the history of Africa who deserves to have the flesh ripped from his living body while he screams in pain (a la Wes Craven’s Hell Raiser style) its Idi Amin. Jesus Wept. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/18 "2003-07-21T17:41:16Z")
Well, stop monkeying around with that gun and go kill summa doz sumbitches. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/19 "2003-07-21T17:46:10Z")
Okay, I know where to start. Please allow me to fight your ignorance on one specific front: > [@](#): > > A place where AIDS continues to spread because of the widespread belief that raping a virgin will cure you of the disease From [snopes.com](http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/babyrape.htm) > [@](#): > > The question of what motivates child rape in South Africa is a complex one, and although many news accounts baldly ascribe it to a long-lived belief sex with a virgin will cure AIDS, there’s not a strong reason to believe that is even part of the mix of what impels the majority of that country’s child rapists, let alone that it is the sole cause. I have spoken with a number of Africans from various parts of the continent about this and they all report that, until they came to Canada, they had **never** heard **anyone** proclaim that sex with a virgin will cure AIDS. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916/20 "2003-07-21T17:53:05Z")
Death is the one great equalizer. So, if he accepts Jesus, or whatever, just before he croaks, does he go to heaven? Man, what a loop-hole! * * * Email: Obfuscating communication for over a decade! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idi-amin-deathwatch-and-condolence-thread/189916.md?page=2)