If Pinochet is guilty, so is Bush
06/08/05
General Augusto Pinochet, approaching his 90th year, has survived many years of legal harassments resulting from alleged human rights violations during the period of the Chilean military government's war on terrorism. On the basis of a U.S. Senate staff report, Pinochet is now going to be investigated for stashing $13 million in U.S. banks. What is interesting about the Pinochet case is that everything the former president of Chile is accused of, George W. Bush and his cronies are guilty of. Indeed, why are Senate staff wasting their time on 30-year-old alleged crimes of an elderly Chilean when the president of the United States ought to be in the dock? The prosecutor's brief -- the Downing Street Memo -- is already written...
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=6254
from Antiwar.Com, by Paul Craig Roberts -- Hat Tip to Sierra Times
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
General Augusto Pinochet, approaching his 90th year, has survived many years of legal harassments resulting from alleged human rights violations during the period of the Chilean military government's war on terrorism. On the basis of a U.S. Senate staff report, Pinochet is now going to be investigated for stashing $13 million in U.S. banks. What is interesting about the Pinochet case is that everything the former president of Chile is accused of, George W. Bush and his cronies are guilty of. Indeed, why are Senate staff wasting their time on 30-year-old alleged crimes of an elderly Chilean when the president of the United States ought to be in the dock? The prosecutor's brief -- the Downing Street Memo -- is already written...
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=6254
from Antiwar.Com, by Paul Craig Roberts -- Hat Tip to Sierra Times
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 9. Jun, 13:08
