Ex-Argentine dictator says terrorists run country

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Tuesday, 12.21.10
Ex-Argentine dictator says terrorists run country

By MICHAEL WARREN
Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Former Argentine dictator Jorge Videla, on trial again for the first time in 25 years, testified Tuesday that his military junta was called by society to stamp out an incipient Marxist revolution, and warned that the same "terrorists" have now completely infiltrated the government.

"Yesterday's defeated enemies have achieved their goal: Today they govern our country and put themselves on pedestals as champions of human rights," Videla complained. "They're now in power and from there they are attempting to install a Marxist regime ... taking captive the institutions of the republic."

Videla, 85, gave a long speech before a panel of judges deciding whether he and two dozen other defendants are responsible for the torture and murder of 31 political prisoners in the provincial city of Cordoba in 1976. Prosecutors have asked for a life sentence for Videla. A ruling is expected late Wednesday.

This is the first trial for Videla since the Supreme Court in 2007 declared unconstitutional the amnesty that enabled him and other junta leaders to escape the life sentences they received in a historic trial in 1985, as Argentina was returning to democracy after the 1976-1983 dictatorship.

More:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/21/1983535/ex-argentine-dictator-says-terrorists.html

Please take a moment and scan the photos at "google images" for "Dirty War Argentina" and consider whether or not you believe the people running Argentina NOW are the terrorists:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rlz=1T4SNYI_enUS308US308&nfpr=1&biw=943&bih=568&tbs=isch:1&&sa=X&ei=tMIRTcHjNYSKlwfa_JnFCw&ved=0CDIQBSgA&q=Dirty+War+Argentina&spell=1

Thank you.