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That's different -- Saddam was a BAD dictator, the kind who wanted to keep his money and oil himself.

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Duh, he's a DEMOCRAT.

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Rat dic-tators.

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Mixing a couple of weekend memes.

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Now?

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Possibly the senile witch Maggie Thatcher.

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Pinochet knew<strike> population inflation was just as</strike> evil<strike> as the monetary kind</strike>.

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Of course not. Money is much more important than mere human beings.

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So, what you're saying is that the WSJ editorial staff needs to read some Isabel Allende novels.

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Apparently the Wall Street Journal now will say anything to troll more page views.

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The WSJ is pro-Pinochet? Geeze, I thought they'd be a bit on the down low on that. You don't find much pro-Pinochet sentiment anywhere these days -- except on the pages of the WSJ. What a sordid thing to be associated with.

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The proper way to phrase that is "the rich douchebags in this country consider that they would make more money if you didn' have the freedom to vote, redress your grievances, peacefully assemble, etc."

And with shameless pricks like Scott Walker doing their bidding, they're out to solve the problem.

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Those bound in Chilean bonds, not so much.

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WSJ: Egyptian Democracy? Tut Tut.

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<i>"..., who took power amid chaos but hired free-market reformers and midwifed a transition to democracy."</i>

Same thing happened here, except it was Dubya who was took power (Thanks SCOTUS!) t hired free-market <strike>reformers</strike> fappers and midwifed a transition <strike>to</strike> away from democracy.

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The multinational corporations are the real victims here.

'Twas ever thus.

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