Posted on 12/10/2006 6:01:03 PM PST by Dqban22
Edited on 12/10/2006 6:16:42 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Having recovered from the worst of his own socialist deliriums, George Orwell wrote, after viewing the carnage of the Civil War in Spain: "At an early age, I became aware that newspapers report no event correctly. But in Spain, I read for the first time articles which bore no relation to the facts, not even the relation implicit in an ordinary lie." Of no nation since would that doleful observation apply more keenly than to the Chile of Salvador Allende and of Augusto Pinochet.
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Pinochet may have done some bad things, but he deserves a lot less condemnation than Castro and Mugabe.
3100 dead. That's just about what the Islamofascists did in one day in NY and DC.
Pinochet, Reagan, Thatcher, Franco, and JPII. The heros of the century who saved the world from Stalinism.
"French secret service agents who had waged France's savage war in the 1950s against Algerian independence forces coached secret police organizations in Chile"
There's your problem.
Wall Street Journal articles must be excerpted. Also, you did not provide a link for this
Allende was a toad, supported by the forces of international socialism, including US media and their ilk here.
http://users1.wsj.com/lmda/do/checkLogin?mg=wsj-users1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB106332196589384400.html
Tell me, how many votes did he get when he first took office?
*BUMP* for a hero.
And how many voted for the social chaos that Allende visited on them when he consolidated his power.
If the Dems had elected someone like Henry Wallace with a mere 40% of the vote, and he proceeded to steamroll congress and the judiciary, with a clear mind to impose the tenets of international communism on the United States, I would pray for a powerful general to come and clean house, killing off the Marxist scum who had tried to take power through the back door. Just because someone was elected, it doesn't mean they may ignore the institutions that circumscribe their powers. Pinochet, si, Allende, no.
That was a unusually short article.
The same number as George Washington, that is zero. They both took power by arms. They both then built a democracy.
Allende was trying to do the castro thing. Pinochet stopped it, and disarmed all and killing a fair number of Allende's thugs. Then Pinochet restored democracy.
For this, the left will never forgive him.
"Imagine a boot on the face of humanity, forever." Orwell
Just as the left will never forgive Reagan for destroying the Soviet Union.
George Washington was appointed as a General, but elected as President. George W. was unanimously elected president by the Electoral college, as I recall.
You get your own opinion, not your own facts.
Having those other two names in with Reagan, Thatcher, and John Paul II is a serious insult to them.
The left in the UK never forgave Douglas Haig for winning WWI.
The battle of the Somme was horrible, but it saved the French at Verdun, and nearly broke the Germans. Before the Somme, the German Army had a tremendous advantage in experience over the Allies. After the Somme, the Germans could never replace their losses. Though the Somme didn't push the Germans back, the Germans withdrew later, to shorten their lines.
Traitors will always complain, when someone, despite their treason, wins.
Teddy Kennedy tried to sell out the US, to keep the Soviets from losing. He failed.
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