OK, explain to me the case for Pinochet...

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The thing is though, Pinochet did take take power from the communists, but rather a democratically-elected government.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Freedom House scores:

1972 (under Allende) - 1, 2 Free
1973 (after the coup) - 7, 5 Not Free

No, Chile was not better off under Pinochet.

Oh, and it's pretty funny that someone who loves Pinochet claims to be a moderate. But hey, it's the same person who can't argue with jfern without resorting to childish name calling.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Freedom House left wing? AHAHAAHAHHAHAHA

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

If Freedom House is left wing why does Cuba have a 7,7?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Then why did Chile have an almost perfect Freedom House score? Allende probably would've lost the next election in a year, and then he would've been gone. Instead they got Pinochet for 17 years. Clearly Pinochet was wrong then. I consider anyone who defends any right wing dictator to be a right wing extremist, and anyone who defends any left wing dictator to be a left wing extremist. Period.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I never said I wasn't a left wing extremist.

You're a complete fool if you think Pinochet ever had majority support and that referendum in the 80s wasn't totally rigged.

Worse than Pol Pot, Idi Amin or Saddam Hussein? No. Hardly an accomplishment though. The Argentine junta? Pretty much equal. The two were very ideologically similar, the only reason they didn't get along was silly old nationalistic conflicts. But in the end both did pretty much the exact same things. Worse than Castro? Yes. Worse than the much demonized Nicaraguan Sandinistas who weren't even a dictatorship? Absolutely, by all measures.