Question: Does the United States support brutal and oppressive dictators? Answer: YES!
The question merits absolutely zero debate. Anyone with a history book can tell you that supporting dictators is big American business. Below are some of my favorite moments in U.S. history, see if you can guess the pattern.
Hosni Mubarak (Egypt)
Obama and Mubarak at Oval Office of the White House, 2009 |
G.W. Bush and Mubarak in Egypt, 2008 |
Clinton and Mubarak at Oval Office of the White House, 1999 |
G.H.W.Bush and Mubarak at Oval Office of the White House, 1989 |
Reagan and Mubarak at Oval Office of the White House, 1984 |
The Sauds (Saudi Arabia)
King Abduallah Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud with President Barack Obama. Saudi Arabia 2009 |
King Abduallah Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud with President G.W. Bush. Saudi Arabia 2008 |
King Abduallah Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud with President Bill Clinton. Saudi Arabia |
King Abduallah Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud with President G.H.W. Bush. Saudi Arabia 2005 |
King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and President Reagan at Oval Office of the White House, 1985 |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Iran)
The Shah of Iran with President Carter, White House, 1977 |

The Shah of Iran with President Nixon, White House, 1969 |
The Shah of Iran with President Johnson, White House, 1964 |

The Shah of Iran with President Kennedy and Defense Secretary McNamara 1962 |
Iran’s Shah Reza Pahlavi with President Eisenhower in 1954 |
Mr. and Mrs. Truman and the Shah of Iran during the Shah’s visit to Washington D.C. 1949 |
Fulgencio Batista (Cuba)

Batista with US Army Chief of Staff Malin Craig |
Fulgencio Batista and Dwight Eisenhower |
Batista meeting Roosevelt 1942 |
Batista and Roosevelt 1942 |
Batista and Cordell Hull (Sec. of State) at the Pan-American Union Dec. 1942 |
The Somozas (Nicaragua)
Anastasio Somoza Debayle and Hope Portocarreo |
Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza (left) and United States Ambassador to Nicaragua Capus Waynick sitting in the back seat of an automobile. |
Anastasio Somoza and FDR in Washington D.C. 1939 |
Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza with President Franklin Roosevelt in Washington in 1939. Eleanor Roosevelt and Salvadora Somoza stand behind them. |
Mobutu (Zaire, a.k.a. Congo)
Mobutu with President George Bush at White House, Washington D.C. 1989 |
Mobutu with President Reagan in Washington D.C. 1983 |
Mobuto with President Nixon in Washington D.C. 1973 |
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Pinochet (Chile)
Pinochet with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Chile. 1976 |
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Hussein (Iraq)
US Special Envoy and Hussein in Iraq. 1983 |
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Trujillo (Dominican Republic)
US Vice President Nixon and Trujillo meet in Santo Domingo, DR. 1955 |
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Suharto (Indonesia)
Marcos (Philippines)
President Reagan and Marcos in Washington
D.C. 1982
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President Nixon and Marcos in the Philippines. 1969 |
President President Johnson and Marcos in White House. 1966
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