Posted on 12/03/2006 1:29:35 PM PST by NormsRevenge
I imagine some of the posters mistook Pinochet for someone else. Guevera perhaps? Chavez? It's always amazing the number of people who know zilch nada about historical events/people...
How else can I explain the utter nonsense posted by some.
Like I said. the United States has Veto Power over affairs in Latin America even when the people of those nations freely elect their leaders.
The US has Veto Power over all of Latin America!
Prehaps a Pinochet is needed in Iraq.
I wish that were the case. I find it sickening there are Allende apologists on FR coming out of the woodwork. To see the word "atrocities" associated with Pinochet is to remove the shock of that word. It's like elevating someone who has committed the equivalent of a jaywalking offense to mass genocide. I pray for these people's ignorance.
Thank you for informing us that we have no right to protect ourselves and our neighbors from infestations of evil and tyranny. We just want to make sure you folks are all clearly identified.
I don't know anything about Pinochet.
Is he getting the same treatment Diem and Franco get?
Both were flawed men, and I don't think I would be particularly happy living under either, but I do know that they are vilified beyond justification by the MSM. Is the same true for Pinochet.
Better that than someone who believes the document is no better than toilet paper. Abraham Lincoln once said that as a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. Well, I'd rather die a freeman than see my country reduced to being run by a tyrant like Pinochet.
Really, no tears for this puke.
Whis is by no means the same thing as taking personal responsibility.
Interesting you brought up Lincoln. Pinochet is very much his country's Lincoln. Lincoln took out the trash, too. He knew what it took to preserve his nation and did not treat the Constitution as a mutual suicide pact.
When Allende the Marxist scumbag got elected, they began seizing property. Socialization of the means of production spread rapidly and widely. The government took over virtually all the great estates. It turned the lands over to resident workers. By 1972 food production had fallen and food imports had risen.
Also during 1971-72, the government dusted off emergency legislation from the 1932 Socialist Republic to allow it to expropriate industries without congressional approval. It turned many factories over to management by the workers and the state.
The country began to quickly go to hell in a handbasket as all Socialist experiments soon do.
Allende tried to stabilize the situation by organizing a succession of cabinets, but none of them guaranteed order. His appointment of military officers to cabinet posts in 1972 and 1973 also failed to stifle the opposition. Instead, it helped politicize the armed services. Outside the government, Allende's supporters continued direct takeovers of land and businesses, further disrupting the economy and frightening the propertied class.
He began to prepare for a military takeover.
Pinochet said, "BASTA!" (Enough!)
He had a pair and put them to use to rout the Socialists with relatively little loss of life.
Vaya con Dios Señor Pinochet! Libertador de la gente de Chile!
Pinochet was his coutry's Stalin without the political classification. Comparing him to Abraham Lincoln is a gross insult to Lincoln.
"SANTIAGO, Chile - Gen. Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year dictatorship carried out thousands of political killings, widespread torture and illegal jailings, clung to life in a Chilean hospital Sunday after suffering a heart attack and being administered last rites."
Before we break out the party hats and maracas...This guy was hated by the media and the left because the target of his "atrocities" were the communists he kicked out. There is no doubt that he was a tyrant, but he was not nearly as indiscriminate in his tortures as his commie predecessor, Allende (a particular leftie darling, btw).
It's beyond belief the ignorance on this thread. Thanks for shining the light of truth.
The last Latin American ruler who knew the proper place for Commies and Communism and had the cojones to put them there.
Venezuela needs a man like him.
"Pinochet was his coutry's Stalin without the political classification."
You obviously have some serious mental issues, sir.
And you, sir, obviously would be more at home in Pinchet's Chile than in a free society.
Pinochet made it so that Chile IS a free society today. To compare him to the 2nd greatest (political) mass-murderer in history demonstrates your profound failure to grasp reality, sir.
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