Posted on 12/10/2006 9:46:26 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
Hell has a new employee...Pinochet is dead at 91.
Yeah, and living as a human skeleton being worked to death in some political re-education camp sucks even worse.
Stop excusing communists. "Oooh, they're people like you and me!"
Yes, they're people, very *bad* people that will happily stick you in a gulag if you ignore them and they get powerful enough.
PS Hopefully, someone from the military will rise up and inflict the same fate as Allende on Hugo Chavez and Co.
"After 26 years as a dictator? Yep...that's 26 years!"
Did Castro step down? How about Mao? Ho Chi Minh? Stalin?
Would have Allende?
(After he finished trashing the Chilean constitution)
Let's face it. As another poster on this board already said, Pinochet saved Chile (and perhaps South America) from Communism. Liberals will never forgive him for that.
Apparently, some people who call themselves conservative won't forgive him for saving Chile from Communism either...
Saddam Hussein fought neither.
I'm not for democracy...I don't support mob rule. Hope that answers your question. Nor is the USA a democracy.
Your idealism is amusing, but ultimately naive and self defeating. By the same token you should join the far left in condemning the U.S. in every single war it has ever fought, because there's always been at least "one case" where some of our soldiers did something to civilians that we're not proud of. By your reasoning that makes the U.S. army "murderers," and renders all the good accomplished they've accomplished in every previous war moot.
I would certainly buy that argument if Pinochet had either stepped down or anounced elections with himself as a candidate. However, he did neither after deposing Allende's communists and continued to rule as a dictator for 26 more years (during which thousands more were put to death without even a show trial).
Unfortunately, many murdered inluded people who were not communists but were merely against Pinochet's one-man rule.
Not a shady dictator for starters....
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Would you also be opposed to a key figure in the Venezuelan military overthrowing and killing Hugo Chavez and his merry band of Communist thugs?
I have to disagree with you here. Trying to lump Pinochet with other non-communist dictators such as Saddam Hussein or Hilter is dead wrong. Pinochet was neither AND he voluntarily stepped down from power after it was all said and done.
I wasn't there and neither were you. You are conveniently forgetting that Allende was democratically elected to power. Just putting your head in the sand and passively denying an impending disaster is absolutely the worst thing you can do... government takeover of all personal property, zero respect for individual rights and mass executions to maintain power.
In so many words, you can oppose totalitarianism all you want but you will be among the first to be executed when a hypothetical country that you reside in turns communist.
Why? Because you disagreed with them...
He's a hero in my book. Also, during his tenure, he was more popular than Pres. Carter (I read that in "Human Events").
How about an a military overthrow and killing of Fidel Castro and his Communist dictatorship. Stalin? Mao? Uncle Ho? Pol Pot? Ortega?
Pinochet was OK. He saved his country, at least for while. Like many heroes, he was inadequately appreciated. If he had been like the "heroes" of the left, he would have surpressed his opponents harshly, and thereby would have gained the respect of people like Jimmy Carter (the admirer of Castro, Chavez, and -- for all we know -- Mugabe).
The persecution of Pinochet shows the nature of the communistis and the hypocritical liberals (pardon the redunt expression). He had courage, though. I forgive him for being slightly rough on some opponents, most of whom received less than they would have dealt out to others, had they had the chance.
Where can I get a nice picture of Gen. Pinochet to hang on the heroes' wall of my office?
May he rest in peace.
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