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To: Diggadave

And so do the millions of Chileans who didn't have to suffer under a Communist regime thanks to Pinochet.


517 posted on 12/12/2006 6:55:53 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (If you agree with EPI, you're not a conservative!)
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There a big difference between an ally and a friend. The classic example of this is Stalin and Churchill. Pinochet, while no Stalin, definitely was no Churchill.


518 posted on 12/12/2006 8:59:05 AM PST by Stag_Man (NEVER let the people draw their own conclusions. - DUmmie poster.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

Then have a little sympathy for someone else's mother.

And stop going on like Pinochet's regime only had 2,300 victims. That's just the estimated dead. Add thousands of tortured (but not murdered) Chileans and those that fled before they were swept up and thrown out of helicopters. Displaced and dispossed because they thought that democracy was a good idea, regardless of who won elections.

Pinochet's legacy: economic collapse in the 80s, followed by nationalisation of mineral resources & land reform. Democracy restored only if the military (Commander in Chief: A. Pinochet), received royalties from mineral rights.


519 posted on 12/12/2006 9:07:38 AM PST by Diggadave
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