# So Long, Idi Amin **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 16, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553 "2003-08-16T06:53:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/21 "2003-08-16T20:07:24Z")
Huh. I thought the world felt a little less evil this morning. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/22 "2003-08-16T20:12:24Z")
So where are the self-appointed Morality Cops to tell posters in this thread that Idi Amin was a human being, albeit a slightly flawed one, and we should _ **be ashamed** _ for mocking his death, or as they put it, “dancing on his grave”? ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/23 "2003-08-16T20:32:41Z")
One-two-cha-cha-cha! One-two-cha-cha-cha! **Gobear** , you’re _leading_! Stop that! ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/24 "2003-08-16T20:40:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gobear \* > \*\*So where are the self-appointed Morality Cops to tell posters in this thread that Idi Amin was a human being, albeit a slightly flawed one, and we should _ **be ashamed** _ for mocking his death, or as they put it, “dancing on his grave”? \*\* No where to be found here, so it’s a bit odd to be getting mad about it already. . . ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/25 "2003-08-16T20:45:57Z")
With the demise of Saddam’s beloved qusay and uday, and now Amin, the world is just getting a better and better place. Too bad he died comfortably in hospital, unlike his many victims. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/26 "2003-08-16T20:59:08Z")
I knew Amin was still alive, but I had no idea he was in Saudi until this morning. And Saudi’s excuse? Offering help to a fellow Muslim. Grrrreat attitude there, guys. Just for the record, no murderers, fellow agnostics or not, get to camp out in my guest room. Not even if they bring booze. Hmpf. Julie ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/27 "2003-08-16T21:00:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tapioca Dextrin \* > \*\*They practiced jumping out of airplanes on kiddies’ slides BTW. \*\* Did they wax the slides to make themselves go down faster? ('Coz we had that figured out when I was a kid and if they can’t, then it never would have worked.) ---
**Author:** ![lonelocust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@lonelocust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lonelocust)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/28 "2003-08-16T21:01:43Z")
A good day indeed. But wouldn’t it be great if Mugabe, Saddam, or Charles Taylor joined him for a double-header. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/29 "2003-08-16T21:15:09Z")
One of his last wishes was to be buried in his homeland. What is the point on the planet that is FURTHEST away from Uganda? I hope it’s inside a volcano somewhere–he’ll feel right at home. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/30 "2003-08-16T21:20:28Z")
One of his last wishes was to be buried in his homeland. What is the point on the planet that is FURTHEST away from Uganda? I hope it’s inside a volcano somewhere–he’ll feel right at home. ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/31 "2003-08-16T21:22:11Z")
I’m glad the misbegotten son of a sow is dead. But, since I don’t believe in hell, I’m sorry it didn’t take him longer to die. If anybody ever deserved to suffer it was he. Sadly, justice doesn’t happen often. When it does it’s often so brief we almost miss it. The world won’t miss him, though. Not one Idi bit! ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/32 "2003-08-16T22:08:35Z")
I wonder what his last meal was. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/33 "2003-08-16T22:13:15Z")
I remember back in September 2001, when Bush made a speech saying something like, “We will not distinguish between terrorists and the governments that harbor terrorists.” I knew right away it was bullshit, and that we’d keep treating Saudi Arabia with kid gloves, instead of dealing with it as the thoroughly corrupt dictatorship and source of terrorism that it is. (Besides being a monster to his own people, Amin was involved in the 1976 hijacking of a French airliner to Entebbe.) Amin was a soldier in the British Colonial Army in Uganda, before independence. So I guess he represented both colonialism and the worst evils of post-colonialism. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/34 "2003-08-16T22:58:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Brutus \* > \*\*I wonder what his last meal was. \*\* Orphan au’gratin, no doubt. Too bad he didn’t die a _lot_ sooner. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/35 "2003-08-16T23:48:45Z")
“Welcome to Hell, President Amin! I am your Orientation Demon. We have a lovely roasting spit all picked out for you, right next to two fine young men from Iraq who are also recent arrivals. Be advised that beseeching and imploring are not appropriate under the circumstances, and you should save you voice for shrieking.” ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/36 "2003-08-16T23:57:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > \*\*Orphan au’gratin, no doubt. > > Too bad he didn’t die a _lot_ sooner. \*\* You mean like 79 years ago? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/37 "2003-08-17T00:57:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mehitabel \* > \*\*One of his last wishes was to be buried in his homeland. > > What is the point on the planet that is FURTHEST away from Uganda? I hope it’s inside a volcano somewhere–he’ll feel right at home. \*\* I checked. It’s in the Pacific Ocean. But we wouldn’t want to poison the fish. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/38 "2003-08-17T03:10:05Z")
This just in: Idi Amin is still dead. ---
**Author:** ![fnord1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@fnord1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fnord1966)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/39 "2003-08-17T04:12:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jsgoddess \* > **…And Saudi’s excuse? Offering help to a fellow Muslim.** So he was Muslim? I hope his last meal was bacon wrapped porkchops in liquid form fed through IV.(nothing agianst other muslims, just the evil ones)(evil people in general)) I hope every one of his victims gets a chance to stop by. they dont even have to do anything, their presence will be painfull enough. Of course if one or all want to ram him up the ass repeatedly with barbed telephone poles, thats ok too. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Angel\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_Heart)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553/40 "2003-08-17T04:14:07Z")
I guess he’s in a foursome with Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin at Satan’s golfcourse…I wanna know when Saddam’s tee time is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-idi-amin/195553.md?page=3)