Pinochet dies

[Nymphomanic]

Opinions on his life?

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[munchingfoo]

Opinions on your amazing ability to start threads with single line discursive questions without offering any opinion yourself?

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Tired Freudian references aside - your mother played my mighty skin flute like a surf crowned sea nymph trying to rouse Poseidon from his watery slumber!

[Senethro]

I think its a good thing that he had all those communist subversives killed in order to build the free market economy chile has today.

[ParisInTheAutumn]

He was never going to get better to stand trial so i don't really care, although speaking of dictators dying i hope castro doesn't in the next year, i really want to go to Cuba.

[Senethro]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6167351.stm

Bitch.

[McK]

Quoting Senethro from 12:09, 11th Dec 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6167351.stm

Bitch.

She has become a sad figure; Thatcher has nothing more to do than lament the death of old 'friends' thesedays.

[Mehmsy]

I lived in Chile between 2001 and 2005--let me tell you, a lot of people there are happy to see him go. Street parties and whatnot, people popping bottles of champagne in the main plaza in Santiago... etc.

In retrospect, I can see why. He may have improved the country's economy substantially and done some infrastructure work, but he was absolutely brutal. Just watch any documentary about his dictatorship and you'll see why.

NB: Thatcher is a bint.

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Quoting Senethro from 00:11, 11th Dec 2006
I think its a good thing that he had all those communist subversives killed in order to build the free market economy chile has today.

Please Tell me that you were joking.
No loss of life is a "good thing", no matter what they believe.

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I'm Telling you.
It was the Ninja Robot Monkeys that did it.

[Gubbins]

Quoting McK from 13:23, 11th Dec 2006
She has become a sad figure; Thatcher has nothing more to do than lament the death of old 'friends' thesedays.

Isn't that what all old people do?

Anyway - Pinochet: did lots of good things, but lots of bad things at the same time. Oh, and Chile is a very nice place with lots of nice people, wine, pisco, alpacas, mountains and telescopes. Go there.

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...but then again, that is only my opinion.

[McK]

Quoting Gubbins from 17:28, 11th Dec 2006

Quoting McK from 13:23, 11th Dec 2006
She has become a sad figure; Thatcher has nothing more to do than lament the death of old 'friends' thesedays.

Isn't that what all old people do?

Anyway - Pinochet: did lots of good things, but lots of bad things at the same time. Oh, and Chile is a very nice place with lots of nice people, wine, pisco, alpacas, mountains and telescopes. Go there.

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...but then again, that is only my opinion.

Most old people's friends aren't ex-dictators with the deaths and disappearances of their opponents on their conscience. Or, at least, not in my experience.

[Mehmsy]

Quoting Gubbins from 17:28, 11th Dec 2006Oh, and Chile is a very nice place with lots of nice people, wine, pisco, alpacas, mountains and telescopes. Go there.

Don't forget the empanadas!

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[Gubbins]

Quoting Mehmsy from 17:37, 11th Dec 2006
Don't forget the empanadas!

Mmm... empanadas!

Damnit! I'd just about got over my empanada fixation! Now you go and ruin it all!


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...but then again, that is only my opinion.

[Steveo]

Rest in peace, General.

Britain has lost a very close ally, and I am saddened.

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Set your goals way too high so I can laugh when you fail.

[TCT]

Quoting Steveo from 22:09, 11th Dec 2006
Rest in peace, General.

Britain has lost a very close ally, and I am saddened.

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Set your goals way too high so I can laugh when you fail.

Steveo, as usual I wonder whether you aren't just trying to provoke people with your amazingly stupid views. Wishing a man peace in death who caused so much distress to others in life is just plain wrong.

And it seems to me you are trying to echo the dribbled sentiments of your heroine Thatcher, who at this moment is close to the end of her own days and cannot even remember who she is paying tribute to when asked for a statement. The man may have 'helped' Britain in that ridiculous war of hers, but he was certainly no proponent of what is best about humanity.

[DrAlex]

Quoting TCT from 23:02, 11th Dec 2006
Steveo, as usual I wonder whether you aren't just trying to provoke people with your amazingly stupid views. Wishing a man peace in death who caused so much distress to others in life is just plain wrong.

How very Christian of you.

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[Steveo]

Quoting TCT from 23:02, 11th Dec 2006

Quoting Steveo from 22:09, 11th Dec 2006
Rest in peace, General.

Britain has lost a very close ally, and I am saddened.

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Set your goals way too high so I can laugh when you fail.

Steveo, as usual I wonder whether you aren't just trying to provoke people with your amazingly stupid views. Wishing a man peace in death who caused so much distress to others in life is just plain wrong.

And it seems to me you are trying to echo the dribbled sentiments of your heroine Thatcher, who at this moment is close to the end of her own days and cannot even remember who she is paying tribute to when asked for a statement. The man may have 'helped' Britain in that ridiculous war of hers, but he was certainly no proponent of what is best about humanity.

I don't recall even mentioning the characteristics of the man himself.

I don't care what anyone does in life, they still deserve a peace in death. I've always been a proponent of dignity after death, and the General deserves to be judged by whatever higher power might await him. However, I'm saddened by the death of a man that saved Chile from Marxism as I would be saddened by the death of anyone for whom I had any respect. General Pinochet wasn't by any stretch the perfect leader, but he did do some very good things in his time, and I like to look back on those achievements with fondness at a time of mourning.

Also, yes Lady Thatcher is getting old now. The fact you seem to find the deterioration of mental capacity of the elderly so amusing is absolutely disgusting and you should be thoroughly ashamed. I hope you pour the same derision and humiliation upon your own elderly relatives when they're in their 80s as you do Lady Thatcher. Absolutely sick. Have some fucking respect, it's not her fault she's in her 80s, it happens.

I'm absolutely appalled you utter cunt.

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Set your goals way too high so I can laugh when you fail.

[Humphrey]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/osullivan/ ... 12.article

Good article on the subject (too lazy to plagerise it)

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[TCT]

Quoting Steveo from 09:39, 12th Dec 2006

Quoting TCT from 23:02, 11th Dec 2006

Quoting Steveo from 22:09, 11th Dec 2006
Rest in peace, General.

Britain has lost a very close ally, and I am saddened.

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Set your goals way too high so I can laugh when you fail.

Steveo, as usual I wonder whether you aren't just trying to provoke people with your amazingly stupid views. Wishing a man peace in death who caused so much distress to others in life is just plain wrong.

And it seems to me you are trying to echo the dribbled sentiments of your heroine Thatcher, who at this moment is close to the end of her own days and cannot even remember who she is paying tribute to when asked for a statement. The man may have 'helped' Britain in that ridiculous war of hers, but he was certainly no proponent of what is best about humanity.

I don't recall even mentioning the characteristics of the man himself.

I don't care what anyone does in life, they still deserve a peace in death. I've always been a proponent of dignity after death, and the General deserves to be judged by whatever higher power might await him. However, I'm saddened by the death of a man that saved Chile from Marxism as I would be saddened by the death of anyone for whom I had any respect. General Pinochet wasn't by any stretch the perfect leader, but he did do some very good things in his time, and I like to look back on those achievements with fondness at a time of mourning.

Also, yes Lady Thatcher is getting old now. The fact you seem to find the deterioration of mental capacity of the elderly so amusing is absolutely disgusting and you should be thoroughly ashamed. I hope you pour the same derision and humiliation upon your own elderly relatives when they're in their 80s as you do Lady Thatcher. Absolutely sick. Have some fucking respect, it's not her fault she's in her 80s, it happens.

I'm absolutely appalled you utter cunt.

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Set your goals way too high so I can laugh when you fail.

Get off your fucking high horse. Perhaps I should show Margaret Thatcher the same respect she showed the men aboard the Belgrano?

[The Bitter Historian]

Would these 'very good things' he did in his lifetime include the disappearence and probable murder of over 3,000 people? 'Saved from Marxism'. Oh, do shut up. Yes, he is dead. Yes, the dead deserve to rest in peace. However, you still cannot even try to somehow make the life of a cruel dictator sound like a glorious age for Chile.

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[McK]

TCT strayed into personal territory regarding Thatcher, but still the 'fucking respect' Steveo says should be accorded is difficult to give when opinions on her - and Pinochet - are so deeply entrenched.

I agree, TCT, about the lack of respect her government showed the Argentinian sailors on the Belgrano. Of course, that her government lied through its teeth about that is unsurprising. Thankfully 'R v Ponting' showed her and those others up and revealed the truth of the situation, and their contempt for human life.

But - DrAlex's condescension aside - I do hope that, if there is a maker or a judge of mankind (which I doubt) then I do hope Pinochet gets his just desserts.