Boris Yeltsin croaks

Long-time readers, if there are any, know that The Shaved Ape doesn't follow the old line of never speaking ill of the dead. I'm not worried about hauntings and vengeful gods and such. If somebody's a bastard in life, they're a bastard in death.


Yeltsin is the guy who said the U.S. government "rigged" the first Iraqi vote, even after the NDI and the UN said it was "free and fair". The NDI and UN hate America, by the way (they'd never issue a statement in support of the U.S. unless it was true).

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Times of London

The Pope hates America

Pope: "Nothing positive comes from Iraq," the pope said, "torn apart by continual slaughter as the civil population flees."

I guess he forgot that the civilian population was fleeing Saddam Hussein. He also forgot that Saddam Hussein, his sons, and the secret police terrorized the country for 25 years. And he forgot that we have found more than 70 mass graves, and that Saddam used WMD against a civilian population.

This earns the Pope the coveted The Shaved Ape anti-American Award.