Trego's Mountain Ear

For the benefit of our younger readers, Idi Amin Dada was President of Uganda through most of the 1970’s.  He did walk across the world stage – and here are some of his thoughts, presented to demonstrate that there could be a worse choice for President than we are watching this election.

I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.

It’s not for me. I tried human flesh and it’s too salty for my taste.

The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world.

I’m a good Muslim and I’m only interested in Islam.

I do not want to be controlled by any superpower. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world, and that is why I do not let any superpower control me.