http://news.yahoo.com/s/latimests/20050819/ts_latimes/dustingoffadictatorThe Shoe Queen of The Philippines, Imelda Marcos is at it again!
Remote control in hand, she fast-forwards through video of her days as first lady of the Philippines, meeting foreign leaders: China's Mao Tse-tung, Cuba's Fidel Castro, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and Saddam Hussein. "I was a symbol of my country," she says. "Like a Miss Philippines."
"I never had a mission that failed," she continues, as the images of her foreign trips and meetings with some of the 20th century's greatest rogues blur by. "They always dismissed me as BBD" — she pauses to see whether a visitor understands the code — "beautiful but dumb," she exhales, clearing up the mystery. "But these leaders always opened up to me. Mao took my hand in his … "
"Ooh," she squeals, her face contorted in sadness. "If only Bush had sent me to Baghdad, we could have avoided this whole terrible war." She looks as though she is about to cry.