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To: elmatador who wrote (21456)	8/20/2007 12:21:58 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218011

Elmat, I am not comparing Pinochet's Chile to Chile today. What I am saying is that Pinochet's stealing was an open "on budget" item, from our perspective. The aid budget to Chile was a legal budgeted operation, and approved by congress. If Pinochet and the other dictators stole some of it that was their affair. In truth, there was some "wink and a nod" approval from his US military advisers, for sure. But still, we know where the money came from, how much there was and could probably estimate how much was siphoned off for personal purposes. Coming from a country with a history of the sort of corruption that has been the rule in Brazil forever, maybe you do know something about corruption. <grin> Believe me, there is a massive amount of "offshore" payoffs to politicians all over the place, including here. And THAT is something new in the world. Slagle