Flogger said:
Pinochet saved Chile from the Communists, the hardest thing to forgive is a favour.
"Saved Chile", my ass! What total fucking bullshit!!
Salvador Allende, a Marxist (not a Communist), was duly
ELECTED by the people of Chile. The American government, true to form, decided to meddle in the affairs of another nation because they didn't want another leftist (not Communist) government in this hemisphere and so the CIA operatives were sent off to destabilize the new government. After Allende's "suicide" (duly documented in an earlier post), the
FASCIST generals led by Augusto Pinochet took control of the government and imposed a
DICTATORSHIP on what had been, albeit briefly, a democracy. During the ensuing 17 year reign of terror, thousands of citizens were plucked from their homes and taken to football stadiums and prisons where they were executed by the military. To this day, many of the bodies of "the disappeared" have never been found.
Augusto Pinochet was a ruthless, murdering
THUG who also looted the Chilean treasury and still has millions stashed in bank accounts around the world. His actions were and are indefensible and someone who even tries to do so (for instance, Margaret Thatcher) has their head so far up their ass that they can only dream of ever seeing daylight again.