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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (7284)	2/11/2003 1:55:31 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

zonder, I am not excusing any misdeeds of the Pinochet government but your characterization of Allende as "slightly on the left" is ludicrous. He was a lifelong Marxist who plunged his country into chaos. He (Allende) was censured by the Parliament and the Courts for violating the civil rights of his people and for attempting to install a totalitarian system.

To: zonder who wrote (7284)	2/11/2003 3:50:20 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

You believe good and evil don't exist. I disagree. But I wonder if you really have thought this through. I'm sure you would agree that if the US invades Iraq and overthrows Saddam, the US will not be doing evil since that is a "such a simplistic and childish concept as to be ridiculous when used in international politics, at least in modern western societies. " Re. your own country's complicity, and indeed, open support of this "most wholly evil" character against Iran. Or was he "most wholly good" then? :-) We did tilt to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war because we viewed a victory by Iran as undesirable. As undesirable as a victory by Iraq. I would not excuse Pinochet's crimes. Nevertheless, he is an amateur next to Saddam.