MICKEY Z.: The Other 9/11

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Sept. 1, 2006 -- Since September 11, 2001, there has been a marked increase in the comfort with which those in power openly discuss military interventions -- both current and pending. This shift is particularly obvious when examining the "other 9/11."

Thanks to information made available in documents declassified in 1999, we can coherently discuss the Sept. 11, 1973, coup in Chile -- an event cloaked in secrecy and obscured by Cold War paranoia. But those roughly 5,000 documents don't begin to explain how the toppling of Salvador Allende fits within the context of today's foreign entanglements. After all, what the United States did by replacing Allende with General Augusto Pinochet 33 years ago would today be termed a "regime change" (As Henry Kissinger explained at the time: "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people").

Ten days after the Allende government was overthrown, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Jack Kubisch told the House Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs: "Gentlemen, I wish to state as flatly and as categorically as I possibly can that we did not have advance knowledge of the coup." The documents declassified in 1999, of course, told a vastly different story. Makes me wonder: what would happen if Allende were elected president of Chile in 2006? Would Bush and Rumsfeld follow the same clandestine path Kissinger and Nixon opted for in 1973 or would the U.S.government be tad more forthcoming about their plans?

Based on their public posturing and subsequent actions vis-à-vis Iraq, one might safely assume that the Bush administration (or for that matter, a Gore or Kerry administration) would declare Chile a clear and present danger,impose brutal sanctions, and then pronounce the need for regime change in the name of freedom and democracy. Next would come the brazen threats to "shock and awe" Santiago with 3,000 cruise missiles in the first two or three days of the "liberation." With or without the approval of the UN, Operation Chile Out would commence.

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[SteppingRazor]

1. The writer lost me the minute he claimed Gore and/or Kerry...

would have done the same as Bush in invading and occupying a country that was no threat. They wouldn't have, I think we all know it, and this writer is a delusional hack if he actually buys this.

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3. Sometimes I Wonder About The Difference

I dunno'.

[The Deacon]

2. You Mean

Kind of like Venezuela daring to elect a Left Wing President and then daring to re-elect him after Bush, Rumsfeld & Cheney fomented a (failed) coup against him?
Naw, those fine Christian gentlemen would never do anything as sneaky & underhanded as that - they only invade countries which have proven links to terrorism and proven stockpiles of Weapons of Mass Destruction.