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Pinochet Has Died
Fox News | 12-10-06

Posted on 12/10/2006 9:46:26 AM PST by My Favorite Headache

Hell has a new employee...Pinochet is dead at 91.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chile; chileansavior; commiekiller; commiethwacker; dictator; leavehimbe; pinochet; tookoutthetrash
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To: My Favorite Headache

Pinochet performed a service for humanity by taking no prisoners in his approach to communism.

Did some of his actions against the communists go overboard? Probably. But one must also weigh in the sheer barbarism and inhumanity that is inherent in communism.

Also remember that communism is responsible for close to 100 million deaths throughout the 20th century.

Fighting communism often requires harsh measures, unfortunately (at least for those communists caught in the crosshairs.) But these harsh measures staved off a totalitarian empire that could have decimated all of western civilization.

But the other choice would relegate civiliazation to famines, bloody purges, gulags, torture, mass executions, killing fields and death camps.

Anybody can read more about the genocide commited under communism in "The Black Book of Communism."

For details about the book, go to these links:

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/COUBLA.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Book_of_Communism

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-Communism-Crimes-Repression/dp/0674076087

General Pinochet...Cold War Warrior. Rest in Peace.


41 posted on 12/10/2006 10:15:43 AM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: Rodney King
Damn right! Give me Pinochet any day instead of Allende. He was a good man who done what had to be done to save Chile from communism.
42 posted on 12/10/2006 10:16:46 AM PST by Colosis (Der Elite Møøsenspåånkængruppen ØberKømmååndø (EMØØK) IRA = Ragheads)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Well, the liberals will have one less whipping boy to go after.


43 posted on 12/10/2006 10:18:17 AM PST by Uncle Hal
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To: My Favorite Headache

Pinochet was not a perfect man, he didn't use perfect methods, but he did what he had to do to prevent the fall of his nation and its natural resources to the Soviet empire.


44 posted on 12/10/2006 10:18:20 AM PST by I_Like_Spam
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To: My Favorite Headache

The mothers of the disappeared will weep in joy.


45 posted on 12/10/2006 10:18:36 AM PST by Danae (Anail nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do chel denmha)
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To: Danae

Yeah Castro and Chavez will celebrate. Will you?


46 posted on 12/10/2006 10:19:37 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (If you agree with EPI, you're not a conservative!)
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To: My Favorite Headache

You probably should state that you got that from Wikipedia, unless you are the one responsible for the article on there.


47 posted on 12/10/2006 10:20:26 AM PST by NinoFan
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To: Toddsterpatriot

Don't be an idiot.


48 posted on 12/10/2006 10:21:42 AM PST by Danae (Anail nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do chel denmha)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

From Wikipedia on his Legacy. Seems pretty even-handed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Pinochet

"Chileans remain divided on his legacy. Many see him as a brutal dictator who ended democracy and led a regime characterized by torture and favoritism towards the rich, while others believe that he defeated communism and brought economic growth to Chile. In between these extremes, Chileans will condemn the oppression of the dictatorship, but perhaps also apportion at least a small part of the blame on the UP Government, and recognise merit in the economic reforms implemented on Pinochet's guard.

The debate over Pinochet's legacy was revisited after the retired general's arrest in London in 1998. At that time, the General said of the 1973 coup, “We only set ourselves the task of transforming Chile into a democratic society of free men and women." [2] His supporters made similar claims. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, for example, thanked the General for "bringing democracy to Chile". [3] When in power, however, Pinochet gave a series of speeches that rather clearly indicated that the 1973 coup targeted not only Allende's Popular Unity government, but Chilean democracy itself, which the General saw as hopelessly flawed. In wording that Pinochet repeated several times in various speeches, he claimed that Chile had been “slave and victim of the Congress since 1925, and slave and victim of the political parties.” Arguing for an "organic" type of democracy, Pinochet argued “Merely formal democracy dissolves itself, victim of a demagogy that substitutes simple, unattainable promises for social justice and economic prosperity.” Democracy would inevitably result in a marxist dictatorship, according to his analysis. Chilean democracy, therefore, was “progressively socializing in its economic experiments.... Those who thought they could detain or control this evolution... were given proof under the Marxist regime of their impotence and incomprehensible lack of vision.” (Pinochet, “Patria y Democracia”, 1983, Santiago, Andres Bello)

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.

On Pinochet's 91st birthday, November 25, 2006, in a public statement to supporters, Pinochet for the first time accepted "political responsibility" for what happened in Chile under his regime, though he still defended his 1973 coup against Salvador Allende. In a statement read by his wife Lucia Hiriart, he said, "Today, near the end of my days, I want to say that I harbour no rancour against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all. ... I take political responsibility for everything that was done." (BBC)

It was announced on the morning of December 3, 2006 that Augusto Pinochet had suffered a heart attack, and subsequently the same day he was given last rites. This occurred days after he was put under house arrest. On December 4, 2006, the Chilean Court of Appeals ordered the release of this house arrest. He died on December 10, 2006 of heart failure and pulmonary edema, surrounded by family members, at the Military Hospital at 14:15 local time (17:15 UTC).[2]"


49 posted on 12/10/2006 10:21:59 AM PST by sonsofliberty2000
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To: Danae

Does that mean you won't answer the question?


50 posted on 12/10/2006 10:24:46 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (If you agree with EPI, you're not a conservative!)
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To: RedStateRocker
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.

Pinochet bashers are the sort who probably couldn't admit that our Founding Fathers didn't establish our Republic just by writing and signing a few flowery documents, they actually had to kill (gasp!) more than a few of their fellow Tory/Loyalist countrymen.

51 posted on 12/10/2006 10:27:08 AM PST by tarheelswamprat (So what if I'm not rich? So what if I'm not one of the beautiful people? At least I'm not smart...)
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To: My Favorite Headache

May God have mercy on his soul. And his victims as well.


52 posted on 12/10/2006 10:28:25 AM PST by Hydroshock ( (Proverbs 22:7). The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.)
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To: My Favorite Headache
RIP


53 posted on 12/10/2006 10:29:30 AM PST by UncleDick
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I think Hitler was also against the commies


54 posted on 12/10/2006 10:29:51 AM PST by tiger-one (The night has a thousand eyes)
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To: furquhart

I wouldn't say he was a hero, but he did do what he felt was necessary to save his country from a communist takeover. Chile has an economy we Americans should envy and their privatized social security system is something we should be aspiring to rather than fighting against.


55 posted on 12/10/2006 10:31:03 AM PST by cake_crumb (When "bipartisan study groups" try to prosecute wars, you get Viet Nam)
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To: sonsofliberty2000
"Democracy would inevitably result in a marxist dictatorship, according to his analysis."

Interesting observation he had there, essentially taking De Tocqueville one logical step further. Note well that efforts to remove the Electoral College will cede control to the blue cities and what would we have? Hmmmm.

56 posted on 12/10/2006 10:32:31 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Prayers for our patriot brother, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub. Brian, we're all pulling for you!)
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To: My Favorite Headache
Hell has a new employee...

Then the citizens of Hell are very lucky. Give it a few years and Pinochet will have beaten down the devils, liberalized the markets, and willingly handed Hell back to a civilian government.

57 posted on 12/10/2006 10:33:42 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: DogByte6RER

>>Also remember that communism is responsible for close to 100 million deaths throughout the 20th century.

Actually, the number is well north of 100 million.

A URL no one should be without:

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM


58 posted on 12/10/2006 10:34:32 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Anybody the Stone Age Press hates can't be all bad. He did bring Chili the strongest economy in South America.

Pray for W and Our Troops


59 posted on 12/10/2006 10:34:49 AM PST by bray (Redeploy to Iran)
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To: My Favorite Headache

This and the Space Shuttle launch seem to be the only news today that isn't just another editorial/blog.


60 posted on 12/10/2006 10:36:27 AM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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