Will Bush the Beheader use terrorism to become America's Pinochet?

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Richard Nixon trained Dick Cheney and Karl Rove as Dirty Tricksters. Nixon is Bush's role model for corruption, cynicism and personal psychosis. But Nixon was also a skilled, literate global diplomat who opened doors to China and the former Soviet Union and supported environmental protection. Bush has trashed all that.

Herbert Hoover callously presided over the beginnings of America's worst economic depression. Bush is right there. But Hoover was also a skilled, literate bureaucrat, and a Quaker-raised foe of war. Not exactly Bush.

Warren G. Harding was astonishingly corrupt. Bush, Halliburton and Enron have more than matched him. But Harding also hated repression and brought the anti-war socialist Eugene V. Debs straight from a federal prison cell to meet him in the Oval Office. Bush might well have had Debs executed.

Ultimately, Bush's real peers are not US presidents but Third World dictators, like Pinochet, many of whom his father also put in office. Their coda is clear:
Use of "terror" as an excuse for totalitarian control;
Official secrecy for its own sake;
Seizure of power in contempt of free elections;
Totalitarian militarism;
Abuse of human rights and liberties;
Love of the death penalty;
Hatred of a free press;
Imprisonment without legal recourse;
Widespread torture;
Brazen theft of public billions;
"Free market" smokescreens for corporate domination;
Taxing the poor to benefit the rich;
Hatred of labor unions;
Decimation of the natural environment;
Assaulting elected leaders anywhere, anytime;
Contempt for international treaties;
Reactionary alliance with right wing church groups;
Contempt for women's rights;
Manipulating divisions of race and class.
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i have yet to meet anyone who has even heard of Pinochet or our role in chile (I doubt they even know where or what chile is)

How can people not know such basic stuff?

bury your head in the sand, dream of suv's and forget the world. I travelled the world extensively during my hippy days and so am aware of what the usa has wrought. its not only chile people are ignroant of - its panama, nicaragua, philippines, greece, iran, paraguay, brazil, argentina, afganistan, columbia,cuba and so on

the same people that hit the streets in the 1960s and followed the corrupt practices of Tricky Dick. This recent history, however, is not taught in high school classrooms. It's too real to fit into the "America the Beautiful" version of US history.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

and I'll say Yippee! again for good measure.

The bush-cheney-rove totalitarian party agenda well stated.

Official secrecy for its own sake;
Seizure of power in contempt of free elections;
Totalitarian militarism;
Abuse of human rights and liberties;
Love of the death penalty;
Hatred of a free press;
Imprisonment without legal recourse;
Widespread torture;
Brazen theft of public billions;
"Free market" smokescreens for corporate domination;
Taxing the poor to benefit the rich;
Hatred of labor unions;
Decimation of the natural environment;
Assaulting elected leaders anywhere, anytime;
Contempt for international treaties;
Reactionary alliance with right wing church groups;
Contempt for women's rights;
Manipulating divisions of race and class.

in authoritarians and nonauthoritarians.

Argentine generals, using "terrorism" (a couple of bombings and assassinations) as an excuse to carry out internal repression (30,000 "disappeared") and pointless wars (the Falklands).