People said the same thing about Slobodan Milosevic and Liberia's amputator-in-chief Charles Taylor.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Reasons] Reference

& what does he mean to do with himself? when I correct Joan I shall call you in. not as plenipotent amputator — but you shall mark what you think the warts wens & cancers, & I will take care you do not cut deep enough to destroy the life. the fourth book is the best. do you know I have never seen the poem together. & that one book was printing before another was begun? the characters of Conrade & Theodore are totally distinct & yet perhaps equally interesting. there is too much fighting — I found the battles detestable to write — as you will do to read. — tho there are not ten better lines in the whole piece — than those “Of unrecorded name” “Died the mean man, yet did he leave behind &c.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter 149] Reference