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Oh, according to the Christian Science Monitor... I see how it is. Let me go get some Democratic Underground or Moveon articles, let's keep it unbiased, right? :roll:
You're comparing the CSM which has one the pullitzer prize for journalism seven times to the DU and Moveon? Wow. :doh
"The answer is the proletariat. If it wasn't so I wouldn't be here [...] As for the bourgeois state, at the present moment, we are seeking to overcome it. To overthrow it. [...] Our objective is total, scientific, Marxist socialism" — In an interview with French Journalist Regis Debray in 1970.
"Santiago will be painted red with blood if I am not ratified as President." (after obtaining 36.2% of the vote, versus 34.9% second-place, in the 1970 plurality election).[1]
(Attributed) "I am not the president of all the Chileans. I am not a hypocrite that says so." — At a public rally, quoted by all Chilean newspapers, January 17, 1971. President Allende sent a public letter to El Mercurio newspaper to deny this alleged statement.
After all, Allende himself had confided to Regis Debray “that his differences with apostles of violence like Guevara were only ‘tactical,’ plus his admission that he was observing legality ‘for the time being,’ and his assertion that he had agreed to the Statute of Democratic Guarantees as a ‘tactical necessity’.” (Sigmund, p. 140). And his own Socialist Party, at its Congress in January 1971, had stated that “the special conditions under which Popular Unity came to power oblige it to observe the limits of a bourgeois state for now” and had warned its members to prepare for “the decisive confrontation with the bourgeoisie and imperialism.” (Sigmund, footnote 7/12)
The Allende myth - Political Forum : US & World Politics Discussion
Regardless: it's historical fact that Pinochet overthrew the government on his own accord, albeit with the support of Allende's political enemies (of course). The Deputies did not get enough votes to impeach him (they needed two-thirds majority). Pinochet sensed that the government was weak, so he overthrew it. Do you think that the Chamber of Deputies wanted to lose their jobs at the hands of this general? They didn't like him either.
The Chile Coup: The U.S. Hand
Chile, September 11, 1973: The Ingredients of a Military Coup
Declassified Documents Relating to the Military Coup in Chile
BBC ON THIS DAY | 11 | 1973: President overthrown in Chile coup
A) You're wrong Chile didn't have an impeachment procedure.
B) The resolution was passed by the Chilean Supreme Court and the Chilean Chamber of Deputies BEFORE the coup so why would they be worried about losing their jobs to Pinochet?
C) The coup would not have taken place without the resolutions against Pinochet.
Wow, these uncomfortable facts sure are getting you steamed, aren't they? I've shown you CIA documents describing how they helped the coup, I've shown you the CIA admitting that they helped overthrow Allende, but you just say it's lies, it's all lies, and you cuss, and you deny. You look like a three year old who wants a sucker but Mommy won't give him one.
You have not shown one article where the CIA admits that it aided the coup plotters. The most you have is us supporting dissident political groups like the CDP and funding dissident media outlets.
Regarding Pinochet's rise to power, the CIA undertook a comprehensive analysis of its records and individual memoirs as well as conducting interviews with former agents, and concluded in a report issued in 2000 that the CIA "did not assist Pinochet to assume the Presidency." [13]
So there you have it, folks. The United States Government and the Central Intelligence Agency played a part in overthrowing a democratically elected government and establishing a highly genocidal, fascistic dictator in it's place! Can I get a round of applause?
Oh, stop bawling, little Trajan!
Duke
Kissinger: "We didn't do it."
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