[QUOTE]The Chilean dictator presided over the torture and murder of thousands, yet still the free-market right revers his name
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial entitled “After the Coup in Cairo”. Its final paragraph contained these words:
Egyptians would be lucky if their new ruling generals turn out to be in the mold of Chile’s Augusto Pinochet, who took over power amid chaos but hired free-market reformers and midwifed a transition to democracy. [/QUOTE]
Source: [url]http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/06/wall-street-journal-says-egypt-needs-a-pinochet/[/url]
[quote]According to various reports and investigations 1,200–3,200 people were killed, up to 80,000 were interned, and up to 30,000 were tortured by his regime including women and children.
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By the time of his death on 10 December 2006, about 300 criminal charges were still pending against him in Chile for numerous human rights violations, tax evasion, and embezzlement during his 17-year rule and afterwards. Pinochet was accused of having corruptly amassed a wealth of US$28 million or more.[/quote]
What a nice guy.
i didn't know anyone liked pinochet...i thought the dude was universally hated and even the conservatives in the usa sorta got red in the face whenever you brought him up.
but i guess if he was a political leader, someone out there reveres him. people still like hitler.
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but i guess if he was a political leader, someone out there reveres him. people still like hitler.[/QUOTE]
Egypt could use a good Hitler or Mussolini. Get the nations many factions united, the trains running on time and whatnot.
[QUOTE=elfbarf;41344824]What a nice guy.[/QUOTE]
I think this is just more proof of how skewed pieces like this are. Disregarding information and providing only that which supports their topic.
"Egypt needs a leader similar to this war criminal." is basically what they are saying.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;41344887]Egypt could use a good Hitler or Mussolini. Get the nations many factions united, the trains running on time and whatnot.[/QUOTE]
Denmark needs a Mussolini, that's for sure. Trains here are bullshit, so much so that to fix the constant delays, they just changed arrival times to compensate.
I liked Pinochet.
The people who vaunt Pinochet are the hard-right libertarian types who see their great capitalist utopia in Pinochet's free-market fascism. Kind of like a good part of the hard-left still see the early Soviet Union as their inspiration.
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