George Bush Ranks Above Stalin And Genghis Khan In World’s Most Hated People

[kpete]

Bush is more hated than Stalin, while Einstein is a bigger inspiration than Jesus: Study reveals history's heroes and villains
Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden top the villains list
Albert Einstein beat Mother Theresa and Mahatma Gandi as biggest hero
This is according to the opinions of almost 7,000 students from 37 countries including Argentina, Pakistan, South Korea, Italy, and the US



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[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. and Einstein and Newton beat out Jesus.

Truly, the children are our future...

[hifiguy]

15. +1

I'd put Little Boots behind Hitler, Stalin and Mao, though. For that matter, there's a good case for Stalin at #1 over the Austrian Corporal. As awful as bin Laden was, he's a two-bit piker compared to the Big Evils.

[Half-Century Man]

2. I would think Georgie and Saddam places would be reversed.

And why is Saladin on the list?

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. It's an international poll.

So there are countries where Saladin is much more known and important, is my guess.

What I find interesting is that Hitler is #1, while his historical contemporaries Stalin and Lenin are further down, much lower than Bush.

[truebluegreen]

3. Surprised to see him below Saddam Hussein on that list.

Shows what propaganda can do.

As for the heroes list, not too sure about #2, but otherwise it is quite the lineup.

[global1]

4. When Those Parents, Significant Others & Friends Of Those Men & Women Who Died In W's....

ill declared wars come to and accept the realization that their loved ones died in vain for lies told by W and his administration - Bush will climb to the top of the list.

Unfortunately - many are still rationalizing the death of their loved ones because it is the only way that can cope.

[OhZone]

6. Bush killed up to a million or more people in an illegal war -

- against the wrong country, as well as stealing an election, ignoring warnings about 911, allowed torture, and leading us to a near second great depression.

Only propaganda keeps him from being above Saddam.

Oh well.


BTW- could you imaging if Hoover had also stolen the election before allowing the economy to be trashed or if he had tortured people or any other horrid thing AND the Great Depression? And could you imaging another Hoover running for high office? Why does anyone even entertain the idea of a Jeb presidency? haha

[geek tragedy]

10. Saddam was much worse.

Read up on the Iran-Iraq war, genocide against Kurds and Marsh Arabs, etc.

[OhZone]

13. Oh, that's a pretty sad lame excuse for an illegal war of aggression against the wrong country.

Iran and Iraq were bad. Lets kill too! Pathetic. Oh well.

[geek tragedy]

18. You may want to consider reading

posts before reacting angrily to them.

[Igel]

7. "World." "Students."

That's the old problem with most psychology studies. We know more about the psychology of white middle class males aged 18-22 than we do any other group.

That, by itself, is just an artefact of the population that's been around over the last 50 years to be easily and readily sampled.

The problem is when the psychology of that group is then taken to be the psychology of all Americans or all humans. In some cases, it's likely to be true: optical illusions are psychology, but rooted in brain structure that's likely to be fairly universal. In other cases, it's patently wrong.

It's a known bias and error. Yet it's an error we keep on making, it seems.

I wonder if we'd fall for it if it said so-and-so was the world's most hated person, based on a sampling of 7000 energy and pharmaceutical company CEOs and CFOs.

[eppur_se_muova]

8. Mission Accomplished !

You knew that was coming.

[Bad Thoughts]

9. Putinists must have been overcounted

Stalin's misdeeds affected more people than Bush's, but many more are willing to overlook Stalin's out of "necessity."

[hifiguy]

16. "Necessity" is an interesting concept for some people.

In law school in the mid-1980s I met a guy who claimed Pol Pot (who should be on this list) was only "doing what had to be done" in exterminating more than two million people. That is the weirdest and sickest thing that has ever been said to my face.

[geek tragedy]

11. This suffers from the inevitable bias towards modern

figures.

King Leopold was robbed.

[Bohemianwriter]

12. Mother Teresa shouldn't be on the list of heros...

Anyone knowing the truth about her, knows she was a scams artist and plain cruel.

[a la izquierda]

14. People have amazingly long memories. nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

17. Yeah, but you know DICK Cheenee is on that "villiains" list somewhere...

With a bullet!* (If I have anything to do about it.)


*Dear Agent Mike: "With a bullet" is an old Variety term that means that something is popular, and trending higher. Casey Kasem would understand. How are the kids?

[Cha]

19. run bush 2 run!

[Snobblevitch]

20. Not defending W.,

but Stalin and Mao were responsible for the deaths of many more people than Bush was. Of course, much time has passed since their deadly actions.