[Tonchi]

(Yawn)..... good morning, UG. Well, your lovely rant saying "political assasination and murder of civilians is fine because we are the good guys" is just more of your same ol' same ol'. Fill in the blanks with the nation of your choice, the rant is the same. In MY vocabulary, murder still results in dead people, and they and their families don't much appreciate that "our boys were right." And before you send me off to do my homework, maybe you should know that I already have a degree in the subject, I speak the language there, I have friends who are Chilean, and I have met Ms. Allende when she was at the local university promoting her latest book, I have rented offices to a Chilean dentist and one of my best friends from interpreters school was a Chilean refugee from the Pinochet regime. BTW, you missed the part about how the country was not seized to prevent it being lost to the Marxists (understandable since you have not studied Latin American Coup 101): It's about the POWER, baby. Ideology is for press conferences only. Can't let all the revenues you are funneling into your own Swiss bank account be divided with the unwashed masses, and God forbid that somebody else take charge of those mines which are slipping YOU enough cash to retire like a sultan. Like I said, the Mormons had more to do with the panic to change government in Chile than the Russians ever did. Oh, yeah, and I also handled the copper companies when I was with IBM in Tucson and have visited all the copper mines and seen the environmental disasters they were allowed to become and how they literally bred each succeeding generation of mine laborers onsite. How fortunate that they were allowed to continue with business as usual elsewhere, for the sake of keeping "Marxists" out of Latin America.