Posted on 12/10/2006 9:46:26 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
Hell has a new employee...Pinochet is dead at 91.
Links would be appreciated.
A lot of people have been against communism in their lives...doesn't excuse their actions on 100 other levels in their lives.
LOL! What links. He probably pulled the statements from some MySpace page.
There have been several detailed reports which describe the human rights abuses carried out by the Pinochet regime. In January 2005, the Chilean Army accepted institutional responsibility for past abuses. Other institutions also accept that abuses took place, but blame them on individuals, rather than official policy. Lucía Pinochet Hiriart, Augusto Pinochet's eldest daughter, said the use of torture during his 1973–90 regime was "barbaric and without justification", after seeing the Valech Report.
Pinochet left behind a series of abandoned concentration camps. Most of them have been either destroyed or dismantled, others remain partially intact or have been turned into museums or sites of remembrance. Some of these include Villa Grimaldi, Chacabuco, National Stadium and Pisagua.
I know this is bad karma but I can think of a few others that I hope join him soon.
Allende was elected with less than 40% of the vote. He then proceeded to confiscate property and try to bring about a Castro style revolution to Chile and then the rest of South America. Being elected, of course, does not give one unlimited rights. Allende ignored congress and the supreme court. Both asked the military to restore order to Chile. Pinochet answered the call. He single handedly saved South America from communism and the likely millions of deaths that would have resulted. That he did so at a cost of roughly 2,000 communists dead is a testament to his humanity. After gaining power, he brought about free market reforms, and when the communist threat passed, he voluntarily stepped down and handed a democracy to the Chilean people.
The world would be much better place with more such jerks.
So much for a brutal, flawed man who prevented his country from being
turned into Cuba.
A recent issue of The Smithsonian Magazine had a profile on the changes
in Chile since a left-leaning lady has been elected to run the place.
I have to credit the article for being honest about how Chile had turned
into an economic powerhouse of South America...and that the new leftist
leaders are trying to fight their true nature...and NOT kill the economic engine.
Hey genius, have they found those 10,000 bodies you swore your 'sources' told you were in the trees of coastal Mississippi?
Sure, he wasn't perfect, but don't forget his enemy were 1970's communists who would have butchered millions to bring about a communist state. Does one condmen Pinochet for killing a few thousand when if he did nothing millions of across South America would have died?
He will not be missed.
Plus he left Chile a healthy capitalist economy. Neither all saint nor all sinner, Pinochet did handle the communists better than most and Chile is better off from his rule than it would have been from the same time under Allende, who planned to consolidate his marxist hold on the country and then to begin exporting it to the rest of South America. QDEP
Right!
As far as I'm concerned, his getting rid of Allende and killing lots of commie supporters was a good thing!
Sometimes one gets a little smelly taking out the trash. He was brutal and bloody but sometimes sometimes nasty work has to be done. I much prefer it when it is done by the people in their own country rather than by us.
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