Yes, of course. I meant Pinochet.
It is a useless, sterile discussion, to talk about how awful the internal government of those various despotisms were. All that's needed, to show the hypocrisy of those who say Saddam's human rights record was an adequate excuse for the invasion, is to ask: what were these same people saying when Saddam first used chemical weapons in the 1980s? They were saying, and doing, nothing. Unless they worked in the U.S. State Department, in which case they were figuring out how we could continue to support Saddam, in spite of this PR problem. It's a sham, and an obvious one, their outrage now. They are simply casting about, searching randomly for the next most plausible justification, now that their previous one has been exposed. |
