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"Some people have done a lot?" -CIA backs military coup in Chile to overthrow democratically elected president. Cue almost 20 years of brutal military dictato

"Some people have done a lot?" -CIA backs military coup in Chile to overthrow democratically elected president. Cue almost 20 years of brutal military dictatorship. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_coup_of_1973 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_coup_of_1973 -Funding and arming right-wing paramilitary militias in Nicaragua to overthrow another democratically elected government http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua#Sandinistas_and_the_Contras http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua#Sandinistas_and_the_C... -Hell, blanketting the entire damned continent in brutal military dictatorships. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America_%E2%80%93_United_States_relations#1970s:_the_era_of_the_juntas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America_%E2%80%93_United_... -Overseeing said brutal dictators' plans to assassinate political dissidents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor -Training the armies of said dictatorships in the methods that made them notorious http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Americas#Human_rights_violations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Americas#Human_ri... And that's just before the "War on Drugs" era. The US has earned the enmity of Latin Americans the honest way.

rbanffy 16y ago
How many people were really involved? A hundred? Two hundred? A thousand? Is that a significant part of all other Americans who didn't know what their government was doing?
- rdtsc 16y ago
  They think they live in a democracy and are even willing to export it, therefore they should be responsible for the actions of whoever they voted (or didn't vote).
  - rbanffy 16y ago
    I understand what you say, but I maintain that most of them cannot understand what is going on. They were educated this way and are no more responsible for their government actions than are North Koreans or Iranians (or Portuguese, Greek and Irish) for theirs. They have been lied to for generations.

rbanffy 16y ago

How many people were really involved? A hundred? Two hundred? A thousand? Is that a significant part of all other Americans who didn't know what their government was doing?

rdtsc 16y ago
They think they live in a democracy and are even willing to export it, therefore they should be responsible for the actions of whoever they voted (or didn't vote).
- rbanffy 16y ago
  I understand what you say, but I maintain that most of them cannot understand what is going on. They were educated this way and are no more responsible for their government actions than are North Koreans or Iranians (or Portuguese, Greek and Irish) for theirs. They have been lied to for generations.