[Huber]

Future topic for Ann Coulter?

[visitor]

read later ...rto

[Argh]

Bump.

[tallhappy]

Future topic for Ann Coulter?

What? That the only good thing Kissinger ever did he didn't really do?

[gaspar]

Falcoff's declaration that the New York Times was "indifferent to the uses of anti-Americanism," was true not only for Chile but for most of its reporting on Latin America since 1960.

[Rodney King]

Pinochet was a hero who reluctantly put himself forward to save South America from the Communists. He then instituted free market reform and voluntarily stepped down and held free elections.

That he dished back out 10% of what the communists gave is the supposed reason for calling him a murderer and a war criminal.

[KC_Conspirator]

bump

[TaxRelief]

(Summary Part III) Nixon wanted to forestall Allende's inauguration, so the CIA devised Plan A (a constitutional coup and Plan B (a military coup).

(Summary Part IV) Kissinger ordered Plan B to be called off. CIA attempted to get General Viaux to stand down, but he did not. Viaux's people, in a bungled kidnapping attempt, murdered General Schneider who opposed a military coup.

(Summary Part V) The murder of General Schneider encouraged other "constitutionalist" officers to support an orderly transfer of power to the new Allende administration.

(Summary Part VI) During the 3 years(1970-73) that Allende remained in power, he built up the military using foreign lines of credit and confiscation of foreign and domestic investment within Chile.

(Summary Part VII) Allende's totalitarianism and confiscation of personal property and personal property rights caused unrest nationwide, forcing Allende to depend on the military to stay in power. Allende disenfranchised too many government officials.

(Summary Part VIII) Rumors of a coup were spread internationally. Even Allende knew he was about to be overthrown. When it was over, President Nixon thought we had a discrete hand in the final events. Ambassador Kissinger told President Nixon that we were not involved.

[TaxRelief]

(Summary Part IX) .."What then followed--a right-wing dictatorship that crushed not merely the Allende regime but Chilean democracy itself--was not and could not have been predicted."

Huber- You need to summarize the conclusion.

[Clemenza]

VIVA PINOCHET, Savior of Chile!