Bad-ass leaders.

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**Cheesecat**

This is thread about the leaders who once ruled your country at one point that you feel had a major influence on your country or were just generally cool. I'll start off with Pierre Trudeau, a liberal Prime Minister who established the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, opposed Quebec separatists, implemented official bilingualism and was popular with young women (a lady's man

).

So DakkaDakka what national bad-asses do you have?

**HellsGuardian316**

I think I'll do the obvious one for the UK. Winston Churchill, Not sure we could have asked for a better "war" time Prime Minister. Notice I say wartime, as he didn't do so well during peacetime, apparently. Hence why I say wartime as all the knowledge I have on the guy is based on this era and not after. Pre-war he was actually quite unpopular in many area's.

**Coolyo294**

Teddy Rosevelt.

**Shadowbrand**

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Riel

This guy you know eh?

**Manstein**

Aaron Burr

**M_Stress**

+1 for Riel

**htj**

Elizabeth I was pretty bad-ass. I'm something of a fan-boy.

Nothing's gonna beat Teddy Roosevelt, though. The man was hardcore.

**Toastedandy**

Bertie Ahern, the man that doesnt give a feth

**SilverMK2**

Arnie - probably personally killed more people with his own hands/guns than any any other leader

Not to mention saving the world countless times

**Samus_aran115**

George W. Bush

**Monster Rain**

Dubyuh, for all of his faults, did not give a damn what the rest of the world thought. I can objectively think that's kind of cool while I wish that we hadn't blown so much money and so many lives in what I feel is the mismanagement of a couple of wars.

As for badass leaders:

**purplefood**

Churchill...
Most politicians at the time would have either sued for peace or simply surrendered to the Nazis. Churchill decided to do neither and stuck it out. Good speeches as well.

**snurl**

Dwight Eisenhower

**Kilkrazy**

Edward I

**themocaw**

Andrew Motherfething Jackson, the man who was nearly assassinated, survived when both guns misfired (allegedly, the guns were afraid of Andrew Jackson), and then beat the would-be assassin nearly half to death. With his cane. While pushing 70.

Of course, he was also a huge feminine hygiene product to the natives. . . he was a badass, not a good man :(

**Frazzled**

coolyo294 wrote:Teddy Rosevelt.

Personal hero. Man gets shot but says "meh" and goes ahead and gives his speech. Also:

Andrew "Don't make me hang you" Jackson
Harry "Don't make me nuke you"Truman
Ulizes "don't make me wipe you out, hey where's my whisky!" Grant
Dwight "Call me Ike again and I'll shove this Sherman tank up your ass" Eisenhower
Richard "Darth Vader" Nixon

**chaos0xomega**

I think Vlad Putin wins this thread:
http://www.cracked.com/article_19128_7-reasons-vladimir-putin-worlds-craziest-badass.html

at least until I mention Adolf Hitler. Yes, Adolf Hitler. He was bad... very bad, downright EVIL.... and he was an ass... a super huge ass...

**Mr. Burning**

Maggie Thatcher.

No male PM of her time would have had the balls to tell the Argies to eff off our land.

She didn't take any crap of the IRA either. Operation Flavius, despite its flaws, sent and adequate message.

Lor' bless chairman Thatch!

**Frazzled**

Whats operation Flavius? Some sort of giant pizza takeout?

**purplefood**

Frazzled wrote:Whats operation Flavius? Some sort of giant pizza takeout?

I'm not sure but i have a feeling it involved using the SAS to counter a domestic disupte...

**dogma**

No Bismarck yet?

He was a RL Tywin Lannister who didn't die on the toilet.

**Frazzled**

purplefood wrote:
Frazzled wrote:Whats operation Flavius? Some sort of giant pizza takeout?

I'm not sure but i have a feeling it involved using the SAS to counter a domestic disupte...

Dear God you sent the SAS to get pizza? Thats hard core. No wonder the Argentinians were afraid of you.

**Polonius**

During the 2004 election, we were discussing the possiblity of electing a US President that had killed enemies in a firefight, which led to a discussion of presidents that had actually killed men.

We got around around to Jackson, and somebody joked that "Jackson shot a man just to watch him die."

To which my friend added: "at a state dinner."

**purplefood**

Frazzled wrote:
purplefood wrote:
Frazzled wrote:Whats operation Flavius? Some sort of giant pizza takeout?

I'm not sure but i have a feeling it involved using the SAS to counter a domestic disupte...

Dear God you sent the SAS to get pizza? Thats hard core. No wonder the Argentinians were afraid of you.

Yeah why not...

**Frazzled**

Frazzled wrote:
purplefood wrote:
Frazzled wrote:Whats operation Flavius? Some sort of giant pizza takeout?

I'm not sure but i have a feeling it involved using the SAS to counter a domestic disupte...

Dear God you sent the SAS to get pizza? Thats hard core. No wonder the Argentinians were afraid of you.

I see now. SAS after IRA plot.

Operation Flavius was the name given to an operation by a Special Air Service (SAS) team in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988 tasked with preventing a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb plot. The IRA Active Service Unit's (ASU) members, Danny McCann, Seán Savage and Mairéad Farrell, conspired to detonate a car bomb where a military band assembled for the weekly changing of the guard at the governor’s residence. Although the operation was meant to be an arrest operation,[1] it ended with all three members of the ASU dead.

Looks like that part worked out for the best.

**Asherian Command**

Teddy Roosevelt He was the biggest badass of all time.

**purplefood**

Well i know a fair few people were pissed off that Thatcher used the army to solve a domestic dispute... the SAS no less.
Lets not get into that know...

**Snarky**

Probably this guy...

**Mr. Burning**

Frazzled wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
purplefood wrote:
Frazzled wrote:Whats operation Flavius? Some sort of giant pizza takeout?

I'm not sure but i have a feeling it involved using the SAS to counter a domestic disupte...

Dear God you sent the SAS to get pizza? Thats hard core. No wonder the Argentinians were afraid of you.

I see now. SAS after IRA plot.

Operation Flavius was the name given to an operation by a Special Air Service (SAS) team in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988 tasked with preventing a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb plot. The IRA Active Service Unit's (ASU) members, Danny McCann, Seán Savage and Mairéad Farrell, conspired to detonate a car bomb where a military band assembled for the weekly changing of the guard at the governor’s residence. Although the operation was meant to be an arrest operation,[1] it ended with all three members of the ASU dead.

Looks like that part worked out for the best.

It was a pretty botched op but a nice message came out of it.

'Dear IRA,

We hope you enjoy your holidays,

We did.

Yours,

Maggie'

**Frazzled**

Snarky wrote:Probably this guy...

OMG THAT STATUE IS GIVING ME THE FINGER! TO WARRRRRRRR!!!!