In May, McCain was forced to fire two key staffers because of their lobbying work for the brutal dictators of Myanmar (Burma).

But that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to McCain's ties to brutal dictators.

Charlie Black, campaign chairman (Hilzoy)

• Ahmed Chalabi, the smooth talking Iraqi exile who helped manufacture the WMD charges against Saddam Hussien that led the U.S. to invade (more here).
• Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, found guilty of torture, executions, disappearances, and human rights violations, who hired Black to "improve" his image in the U.S.
• Somali dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, who's army massacred between 40,000 and 50,000 civilians in two years.
• Dictator Mobuto Sese Seko of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), who amassed a vast personal fortune and repressed rival political parties while his country's children starved.
• Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi of UNITA, an ally of apartheid-era South Africa, who started a civil war which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and ordered the torture and murder of countless opponents (more here).
• Nigerian Dictator Ibrahim Babangida ran a one-party regime, who arrested his opponents, and murdered journalists. 
• Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo

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