Posted on 12/11/2006 12:42:02 AM PST by bruinbirdman
Dear Sheila,
He was right. You were dirt and you did get what was coming to you.
The moral of your story Sheila is don't go to South American countries and meddle in their politics.
Love,
L
If you use that argument, then you could justify the barbaric killings of our soldiers and civilian contractors in Iraq at the hands of the insurgents. Your comment is as misplaced as Markos Moulitsas' "screw them" comment from 2004 regarding contractors.
yitbos
Wrong.
Those civilian contractors were there at the invitation of the elected Iraqi government.
This Sheila person was an uninvited busybody poking her nose into a South American political upheaval.
That's not a recommended strategy for long term survival or general good health.
L
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Ditto. As the commies are not humans, but beasts in human shape, they do not, and cannot, have human rights. Thus these rights, not being applicable, could not have been abused. The most one could have speak of, would be cruelty to animals.
Let me ask you something? If a Democrat gets elected President in 2008, and implements several radical liberal policies such as universal healthcare and more confiscatory taxes for those who earned and inherited their money rightfully, would you support a military coup and suspension of the Consitution for a few years? That also includes killing thousands of people who ever voted democrat. Or what if the military overthrew a Republican President and Congress who overturned the New Deal and ended "progressive" era policies that have been parasitic for economic growth?
Allende was a POS for being a communist, but he was still democratically elected, and he would have had no chance of staying in power after his socialistic policies.
If the military in this country ever tried to overthrow our government and suspend the constitution, even if I disliked the administration, I would do what the Founding Fathers did and take up arms to defend my rights.
L
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
The poster said that the doctor was meddling in another country's politics. Now while our intentions are noble and morally just in spread democracy to Iraq, we are still meddling in that country's politics. The British doctor may have just gone to Chile for a humanitarian mission, just as the contractors just wanted to help rebuild an impoverished nation with no infrastructure.
An Islamist takeover is not as plausible. While the Democrat Party coddles Islamists, their hedonistic ways correlate better with secularists and socialists. Ergo, the Democrats taking over an implementing policies on the scale of the New Deal or Great Society is a better comparison.
one could have speak of = one could speak of. Caffeine is needed.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
General Pinochet is dead =
A Chilean's ego-trip ended.
-- posted by db at Anagrammy.com
My dog resents that comparison. He's growling at the monitor.
"Although he left power 16 years ago, Pinochet remained a senator for life."
Isn't that because he overthrew the democratically elected government to install himself as a dictator, then rewrote the constitution to make himself a senator for life before handing power back over to civilians years later?
Please do correct me if I'm wrong. I'd hate to undermine the achievement if there was more to it than that.
"As the commies are not humans, but beasts in human shape, they do not, and cannot, have human rights. Thus these rights, not being applicable, could not have been abused. The most one could have speak of, would be cruelty to animals."
Thus spoke the Lord.
Allende was a drunkard. He was already killing himself with alcohol when he blew his brains out. Castro's people were already taking over and Allende would have soon been replaced with a Castro puppet. You have no idea how chaotic that country was when General Pinochet stepped in -- at the request of the Chilean Supreme Court which had determined that Allende's administration was outlaw.
There probably would not have been another election, but if there had been it would have been rigged by Castro -- and later "legitimized" by Carter.
That British woman was giving aid and comfort to the communist enemy in the midst of a life-and-death brawl in Chile. She's lucky she got out with her life.
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