[Antoninus]

In fairness to Franco, he carefully set things up for Juan Carlos to assume power after he was gone, resulting in a very smooth transition.

And based on what's happened to Senor Pinochet after he stepped down, can you really blame Franco for what he did?

[B-Chan]

I don't blame Gens. Framco or Pinochet for anything they did. Indeed, I consider them both to be heroes who saved their respective nations. The duty of the military is to defend the nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic; and the Stalinist monsters of revolutionary Spain were, like Allende and his gang of Fidelist thugs, most definitely the enemies of their nation.

If the people of the United States were ever to elect a tyrant, I would expect our military to do its duty and remove him/her from power.