I think so I mean dictators are a threat to international peace, not just their own people. Their tendencies to attack other countries in order to divert attention from their unpopular actions at home justifies it.

Dictatorial systems are highly personal, so removing the driving force behind such a regime will result in its collapse, allowing a public elected official and a real government to set in.

If a dictator abuses his/her powers for harming others and sending a country into turmoil they need to be taken out of power before they do something that not only effects the national public, but different countries.

Absolutely. There is no need to try and justify it. It just needs a simple yes.

Anything can be justified by anyone if they try hard enough,

But whether it's right is a little harder.

But I think that if it's understood that a people's situation will improve, that the person has commited and will continue to commit atrocities, and that there is no other way to remove that person from power, then yeah, it's the right thing to do.

Usually that should be something left to the people of that nation though. Sometimes of course those people would be helpless to do anything, and so maybe it would be upon another nation to do something.

But it's something one should be very careful about. Generally if you kill one dictator, another will only take his place, which is why it is better to be left to a people who genuinely want, and know how to change.

Some people just need killin'. It's as plain and simple as that.

This may shock you but I'm all for taking out dictators ;)

While i agree that this is possible and even justifiable i think only if certain conditions are met. Mainly, the dictator must pose an immediate, not perceived, threat to our nation. We can't go assassinating dictatorships just because we don't like their government or economic system if they aren't harming us.

If they were at war with us, i think it is totally justified to assassinate them but that is probably the only case because having other allowances just opens up chances for abuse by those with ideological views of politics or economics that they feel must be spread to everyone else, namely for their own benefit.

WAIT IS IT ILLEGAL IF ITS CHUCK NORRIS BECAUSE CHUCK WOULD KILLTHE LAW!??!

JUST SAYING