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To: My Favorite Headache

He was a great hero. God bless him.


6 posted on 12/10/2006 9:49:23 AM PST by furquhart (Time for a New Crusade - Deus lo Volt!)
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To: furquhart

Oh ya, cocaine trafficking, weapons production, he was a great hero...


7 posted on 12/10/2006 9:50:43 AM PST by RealTeen (Right- Correct, Right- Conservative. Are You Right on the Right?)
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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: furquhart
Pinochet was not perfect. But he was the first man in history to ever make a Communist country free again. He showed it could be done and paved the way for others to do so.

He also showed social security could be successfully reformed through privatization, a lesson that the leftists of the world are even slower to learn.

These are the real reasons the left vilifies him, not for making 3000 people or so disappear. Even if he were guilty as charged, the toll is considerably less than the toll of making and keeping any country Communist.

I'm not God, but I suspect he will be welcomed in heaven because the good he did so outweighs the bad. And while he goes on to his eternal reward, whatever it may be, the left will continue to snipe and lament the fact that they were unable to have their show trial for a sick old man whose worst of deeds was still better than the average Communist dictator's best of deeds.

392 posted on 12/10/2006 6:37:58 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: furquhart
He was a great hero. God bless him.

Amen. Lots of other morons on this thread don't get it.

See Chile’s Pinochet dies at 91 - Lessons for Iraq?

467 posted on 12/11/2006 7:29:26 AM PST by Rockitz (This isn't rocket science- Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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