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eppur_se_muova

(36,274 posts)
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 12:24 PM Feb 2016

"Well, it ain't gonna be Kissinger, that's for sure !"

... and the horse he rode in on.

Kissinger is being much Googled this morning. Even CNN is reminding its online readers of his role in the Allende coup, though without details.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

{Pinochet} shut down parliament, suffocated political life, banned trade unions, and made Chile his sultanate. His government disappeared 3,200 opponents, arrested 30,000 (torturing thousands of them) ... Pinochet’s name will forever be linked to the Desaparecidos, the Caravan of Death, and the institutionalized torture that took place in the Villa Grimaldi complex." ”
— Thor Halvorssen, president of the Human Rights Foundation, National Review Symposium, December 11, 2006


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dictatorship_of_Chile_%281973%E2%80%9390%29


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"Well, it ain't gonna be Kissinger, that's for sure !" (Original Post) eppur_se_muova Feb 2016 OP
Hillary can not be taken seriously when talking about human rights. And that's foreign policy. Gregorian Feb 2016 #1
We would have known nothing...... Historic NY Feb 2016 #2

Gregorian

(23,867 posts)
1. Hillary can not be taken seriously when talking about human rights. And that's foreign policy.
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 12:41 PM
Feb 2016

If this doesn't sink her, then we aren't America.

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