Fun times in Washington

Stay thirsty my friends(?)

Truth be told, if you were to invite any group of African heads of state to the White House these days, you'd almost certainly be inviting someone with a few human rights violations. So it's not particularly surprising that the folks who were at the White House this week are mostly dictators and thugs:

President Barack Obama drew a diplomatic line at the first ever U.S-Africa summit at the White House this week by not inviting Zimbabwe’s brutal dictator Robert Mugabe.

But the guest list still included several other African leaders with only slightly better human rights records.
The White House promoted the summit as the largest-ever gathering of African leaders in the United States, with more than 50 countries represented.

The red carpet was rolled out for Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who shot or jailed virtually all his political opponents, Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh, who threatened to ‘cut off the head’ of any homosexuals in the country and for Cameroon’s Paul Biya, who has the dubious honor of ranking 19th on author David Wallechinsky's 2006 list of the world's 20 worst living dictators.

Raise a glass, anyway. And in case you think we're being uncharitable in pointing out this particular soiree, there was another guest in attendance:

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