McCain''s Meeting With Chilean Dictator Pinochet

[iheartscience]

Looks like McCain is guilty of doing exactly what he has attacked Obama for. I guess he forgot about this? He is pretty old!
link

"John McCain, who has harshly criticized the idea of sitting down with dictators without pre-conditions, appears to have done just that. In 1985, McCain traveled to Chile for a friendly meeting with Chile''s military ruler, General Augusto Pinochet, one of the world''s most notorious violators of human rights credited with killing more than 3,000 civilians and jailing tens of thousands of others.

The private meeting between McCain and dictator Pinochet has gone previously un-reported anywhere."

 

[decodelighted]

Why hasn''t he released this??? WHY!!! I DEMAND ANSWERS!!!! I mean, if he didn''t have anything to hide why wouldn''t he address this damming information in a public forum???

IT IS SHADY!!!!

 

[iheartscience]

Date: 10/25/2008 8:57:46 PM
Author: decodelighted
Why hasn''t he released this??? WHY!!! I DEMAND ANSWERS!!!! I mean, if he didn''t have anything to hide why wouldn''t he address this damming information in a public forum???

IT IS SHADY!!!!

 

[zhuzhu]

Date: 10/25/2008 8:57:46 PM
Author: decodelighted
Why hasn''t he released this??? WHY!!! I DEMAND ANSWERS!!!! I mean, if he didn''t have anything to hide why wouldn''t he address this damming information in a public forum???


IT IS SHADY!!!!

 

[AGBF]

Date: 10/24/2008 8:19:57 AM
Author:thing2of2
Looks like McCain is guilty of doing exactly what he has attacked Obama for. I guess he forgot about this? He is pretty old!
link

'John McCain, who has harshly criticized the idea of sitting down with dictators without pre-conditions, appears to have done just that. In 1985, McCain traveled to Chile for a friendly meeting with Chile's military ruler, General Augusto Pinochet, one of the world's most notorious violators of human rights credited with killing more than 3,000 civilians and jailing tens of thousands of others.

The private meeting between McCain and dictator Pinochet has gone previously un-reported anywhere.'

Deco, the article you cited states:

"At the time of the meeting, in the late afternoon of December 30, the U.S. Justice Department was seeking the extradition of two close Pinochet associates for an act of terrorism in Washington DC, the 1976 assassination of former ambassador to the U.S. and former Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier. The car bombing on Sheridan Circle in the U.S. capital was widely described at the time as the most egregious act of international terrorism perpetrated on U.S. soil by a foreign power."

The problem is that the United States put those terrorists in power, Deco. We didn't just support them "at one time" the way we "once" supported Osama bin Laden when he was fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and we were furnishing him with caves and arms. We put Pinochet into power!

So I'm not sure you can count this one against McCain personally, Deco. Pinochet, although a murdering slob, was put into power by us (not our congress, our president, acting alone), after all. It was we who overthrew the democratically elected and extremely popular Salvador Allende and put Pinochet and his gang of thugs in power in a bloody coup.

You cannot expect Mr. McCain not to have met with Mr. Pinochet unless you expected him to rise above the other members of the US government (the executive branch) who supported the slaughter and torture in Chile; in short, if you expected him to have a conscience.


Deborah

 

[MoonWater]

Date: 10/25/2008 8:57:46 PM
Author: decodelighted
Why hasn''t he released this??? WHY!!! I DEMAND ANSWERS!!!! I mean, if he didn''t have anything to hide why wouldn''t he address this damming information in a public forum???


IT IS SHADY!!!!

LMAO!! You have had me in stitches for days now!!

 

[MoonWater]

Date: 10/26/2008 7:37:42 AM
Author: AGBF

You cannot expect Mr. McCain not to have met with Mr. Pinochet unless you expected him to rise above the other members of the US government (the executive branch) who supported the slaughter and torture in Chile; in short, if you expected him to have a conscience.

Or to be a maverick.

 

[starsapphire]

Ohhhh, in a way a really hope that Obama becomes president.....I can''t wait to rip him to shreds on every wrong move he does......hahahhahhahahah.

 

[iheartscience]

Date: 10/26/2008 12:06:27 PM
Author: starsapphire
Ohhhh, in a way a really hope that Obama becomes president.....I can''t wait to rip him to shreds on every wrong move he does......hahahhahhahahah.

I can''t wait to see you try! It''s sure to bring the LOLs!

 

[AGBF]

Date: 10/26/2008 12:06:27 PM
Author: starsapphire
Ohhhh, in a way a really hope that Obama becomes president.....I can't wait to rip him to shreds on every wrong move he does......hahahhahhahahah.

starsapphire, you have not exactly been reticent in your crticism of Mr. Obama thus far. Exactly what have you been holding back to say when he becomes president? Or are you merely threatening a "tit for tat" move, criticizing President Obama as people have been criticizing President McCain? Oh, wait. There is no President McCain. So doing that would not be logical. I am sure you would never threaten to do anything illogical. So why are you taking such umbrage at those who dare to criticize Senator McCain of the Foreign relations Committee for meeting secretly with Augusto Pinochet of Chile? I am afraid that Mr. Pinochet was a very, very bad man by any standards. Look him up.



Here's one place you can start, his obituary in "The Washington Post":



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/10/AR2006121000302.html



Deborah

 

[luckylux]

Date: 10/26/2008 12:06:27 PM
Author: starsapphire
Ohhhh, in a way a really hope that Obama becomes president.....I can''t wait to rip him to shreds on every wrong move he does......hahahhahhahahah.

I have read many of your posts, and have refrained from posting since others have called you on your remarks. The problems created in the 8 years of the Bush/Cheney administration will not be undone in any president''s first 100 days or even a year. In fact, it may take years and years. If you plan to rip him to shreds should he be elected, then it shows your lack of understanding of the situation our country is currently in.

 

[movie zombie]

Date: 10/26/2008 10:31:02 AM
Author: MoonWater

Date: 10/26/2008 7:37:42 AM
Author: AGBF

You cannot expect Mr. McCain not to have met with Mr. Pinochet unless you expected him to rise above the other members of the US government (the executive branch) who supported the slaughter and torture in Chile; in short, if you expected him to have a conscience.

Or to be a maverick.

ROFLOL!

movie zombie