Just heard this on FNC
R.I.P.
Yeah, stopping the Commies, bad Pinochet.
He was a great hero. God bless him.
Pinochet was against communism. So your "Hell" remark was unjustified.
Now if only Castro and Chavez will follow.
Pinochet dead? I thought that was the name for a California wine. No loss either way.
I'm really tired of this mindless, hateful and dishonest leftist crap.
Pinochet was a hero, however flawed, who gave his country a respite, though unfortunately not a permanent escape, from the dark abyss of socialism.
Rack meee I got him on my dead pool
Pinochet was a hero who almost single-handedly prevented a communist takeover of South America. That he only had to kill 2,000 or so communists in the process is a testament to his humanity.
I know this is bad karma but I can think of a few others that I hope join him soon.
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?
He will not be missed.
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.
Well, the liberals will have one less whipping boy to go after.
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.
The mothers of the disappeared will weep in joy.
May God have mercy on his soul. And his victims as well.