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To: JohnM who wrote (36262)	8/7/2002 10:09:55 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Well, now that's interesting, Hawk. In Chile, they supported an overthrow of a duly elected government. Yep.. a duly elected socialist on 36% of the vote (hardly a majority), who's supporters were pledged to dismantle the very election and economic system that brought them to power, despite the lack of a pluralist mandate. fas.org Funny thing is that Adolf Hitler was "duly elected" as well, but look what occurred in Germany?

To: JohnM who wrote (36262)	8/7/2002 10:14:49 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

So, the US isn't lilly white, what else is new. If Pinochet had been communist, he'd probably have the Nobel Peace Prize by now, in any case the Europeans would have welcomed him with open arms as they have Castro who I saw playing kissy-face with Danielle Mitterand when he came to Paris to visit. Castro probably has an order of magnitude more blood on his hands than Pinochet, though as soon as the Berlin Wall came down it was high time to end our economic sanctions against that doddering fool's country. The decor at the time the US supported these questionable regimes was that of communism spreading its influence via soviet meddling. But nobody ever criticizes the Soviets when there's an example like Pinochet to go right after, and besides we all have seen what a globally positive balance Communism has had in making life better for all during the course of the 20'th century.