"After 26 years as a dictator? Yep...that's 26 years!"
Did Castro step down? How about Mao? Ho Chi Minh? Stalin?
Would have Allende?
(After he finished trashing the Chilean constitution)
Let's face it. As another poster on this board already said, Pinochet saved Chile (and perhaps South America) from Communism. Liberals will never forgive him for that.
Apparently, some people who call themselves conservative won't forgive him for saving Chile from Communism either...