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17. The Falklands War and the Grenada Invasion

Sat Nov 7, 2015, 10:36 PM

Nov 2015

Last edited Sat Nov 7, 2015, 11:15 PM - Edit history (1)

I've been thinking recently about the impetus and timing of those wars.

Preconditioning .. palate cleansers? Probably a little bit of both.

Reagan - Thatcher - Pinochet

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Guardian: Chile admits Pablo Neruda might have been murdered by Pinochet regime [View all] villager Nov 2015 OP

Neruda was one of our time's great minds. Octafish Nov 2015 #1

All that progress gone -- in the name of free-market capitalism. Octafish Nov 2015 #3

US tax dollars at work EdwardBernays Nov 2015 #5

The Chicago Boys in Chile: Economic Freedom's Awful Toll Octafish Nov 2015 #9

:( EdwardBernays Nov 2015 #10

All of this. hifiguy Nov 2015 #11

Of course they killed him malaise Nov 2015 #15

Truth. Octafish Nov 2015 #19

The Falklands War and the Grenada Invasion MinM Nov 2015 #17

Spot-on analysis, MinM. Just Cause for Panama was third appetizer... Octafish Nov 2015 #18

Michael Moore:Our Military Has Not Won a War Since World War II MinM Nov 2015 #20

I suppose it's good they admit it BainsBane Nov 2015 #4

In the same way that Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy hifiguy Nov 2015 #6

Exactly. villager Nov 2015 #8

Pinochet must have been crazy FLPanhandle Nov 2015 #7

His good friends Dick and (especially) Henry hifiguy Nov 2015 #12

Yup. Accessories to murder. villager Nov 2015 #14