[Non-Sequitur]

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.

Pinochet was his coutry's Stalin without the political classification. Comparing him to Abraham Lincoln is a gross insult to Lincoln.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Pinochet was his coutry's Stalin without the political classification."

You obviously have some serious mental issues, sir.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Pinochet was his coutry's Stalin without the political classification. Comparing him to Abraham Lincoln is a gross insult to Lincoln."

That's funny. I don't recall Stalin voluntarily relinquishing power to a democratic government.

Pinochet did some bad things to overthrow the Communists. Lincoln did a LOT of bad (and highly un-Constitutional) things to defeat the South. The comparison is apt.