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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (36274)	8/7/2002 3:03:44 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Apparently the Chilean people didn't like him either. After all, we only provided political support to his overthrow, the Chilean military did the dirty work and cleaned up the mess he made. Hey, last time I checked "people" and "military" were two different concepts. The Chilean people liked Allende enough to vote him in. The Christian Democrats, the opposition, were quite willing to live with the results of the vote, very vociferously opposed the Pinochet coup. There is more than a little suggestion in Christopher Hitchens' book on the Chilean coup that it would definitely not have happened without US, specifically Kissinger, support. And this was only after his policies created 500% inflation and alienation from US markets by the outright theft through nationalization of US corporate property. He didn't like the US, so why should we just "suck it up" and contenance his behavior? Well, those statements about theft are political statements not criminal statements. Who actually owns the resources? As for the 500% inflation. Do you have some evidence for that? Actually, skip it. The more I read of your post on Chile, I see that you and I live in totally different worlds. For you, it's okay for the US to topple governments around the globe whenever they displease whatever portion of the US poltiical elite happens to control foreign policy at the moment. Not even close to the world I live in. It's a world that cherishes democracy, that cherishes the rights of countries to vote in governments that displease the US and for them to stay in power until the populace decides they wish to have some other group in power. I dislike nation states when they act like international bullies. And there is that line about the US detesting totalitarianism. I gather the US govt's dislike for totalitarianism led them to help kick out a duly elected national leader and install a totalitarian one. More than a bit of intellectual dishonesty there, wouldn't you say!! From the guy who uses "inane analogies." Nice.