Dedicated to tyrants

As an opening post I felt I had to put some reference to Osama Bin Laden. I shall leave it open with this poem

Epitaph On A Tyrant
Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.  W H Auden