Subject:    Chile, Cheney, Corruption
 

In 1973, the CIA arranged the overthrow of the democratically elected
government of Chile and it's replacement by the military junta of General Pinochet.
I think it was Henry Kissinger who said that they were 'saving the Chilean people from themselves'.
Just a dry run for the Bush presidency, really. This is extracts from the diary of an American who
was in Chile throughout the coup:

http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,411841,00.html

How Cheney is the real President of the US, an article by Peter Preston

http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/US_election_race/Story/0,2763,412454,00.html

Will this make the networks? Unlikely, but here it is anyway - Bush owned a number of shares
in a medical company that neglected patients in its care, leaving some of them to die:

http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,412389,00.html

or, the full details on:

 http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,412434,00.html

And, to end on a lighter note, a couple of President Dubya jokes:

http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/US_election_race/Story/0,2763,412484,00.html

Nick

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