Powell regrets 1973 US action in Chile - Only Smart member o

[Rastafari]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor.../powell_chile_2 (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030416/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/powell_chile_2)

[praxis1966]

Thanks for the link. Just for the record, IMHO, Henry Kissinger and George Bush I should both swing. Those two fuckers are two of the biggest international thugs of all time (Kissinger because of his involvement in the issues discussed in this article, and Bush for causing the crack and heroin problem in this country).

[Subcomandante Marcos]

i heard this lame ass apology some time ago, well it is very lame

i am a chilean citizen and proud of it, the Pinochet ghost has not left us and the 70-73 decade (Allende's government) has been seen as the greatest by many, and the 73-90 regime (Pinochet's) as the most cruel by many countries around the globe and even more by the chilean families who saw their liberties destroyed and family killed in front of their eyes.

The US gave money to the right-wind (the Democracia Cristiana, it blocked Chile and caused shortage of such essential thing as bread, sugar, flour, coffee, etc.), even when Allende was elected presiedent the 4 of november of 70 Nixon was so angry he told his chiefs he was going to crush this marxist democratically elected president, and so he did.

This period is of much relevance to the socialist/communist revoluton throughout Latin America, Fidel Castro came to Chile for a month and jubilation was floating in the air, Allende was the greatest reformer of all time, he gave milk to poor children, he built schools for everyone, he rose the minimum wage and nationalized the big companies, which caused the capitalist pigs to be angry and run crying to the Nixon administration for support.

I assure if it wasnt for the US interference Chile could have been one of the happiest and biggest country nowadays

[redstar2000]

I think Powell's remarks are utterly hypocritical.

Powell himself is deeply implicated in the crime of aggressive war (two of them so far) committed by the administration of which he is a part.

Rather than comment on the events of 30 years ago, what he would need to do to demonstrate minimal integrity would be to resign his position and then make full disclosure to the international media of the war crimes of the Bush regime.

Pious regrets about the crimes against humanity of his predecessors is meaningless bullshit.

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[praxis1966]

What do you expect from a black man who is a member of the Republican Party? The guy forgot what color he is along time ago. (Let us not forget that during the civil rights movement of the 50s, 60s, and 70s, it was primarily members of the Republican Party who blocked reform at every turn.) Colin Powel is a boot-lickin Uncle Tom and always has been.

[Sabocat]

I don't know which is more disgusting, Powell saying he's sorry, or the jerkoff Rogers saying that the US had nothing to do with the coup. I particularly enjoyed Powell's statement that anything like that is unlikely to happen again in the Post Cold War era. Oh yeah....right.

Just substitute the word Communist for Terrorist and it's the same old shit with these idiots.

If Powell was really sorry, he'd bring that murdering, "terrorist" criminal Kissinger to justice. Give him a Nuremburg style trial and hang the fucker.

Sorry for the rant, but I hate that fucker Powell almost as much as I hate that fucker Kissinger.