RW Leader Paul Weyrich and Pinochet, Best Friends Forever

[ck4829]

His (John Kerry) colleague Senator Kennedy is not content to do so. Kennedy told the Vatican to go fly a kite when it comes to voting with the Church. Just recently he suggested that Pope John Paul II has absolutely no business telling Bishops in the USA not to give Holy Communion to Senator Kerry when he himself (the Pope) had given Communion to Gen. Augusto Pinochet when the Pope visited Chile and while Pinochet was still in power. Of course, Pinochet did not defy the Pope’s position on abortion. Quite the contrary, he was an ardent supporter of that position. As to the charge that Pinochet was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of leftists before and after he came to power, one Vatican official at the time said, “We simply do not know. If true, he will have to stand before Almighty God and explain himself.”

http://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/040622pw.asp

According to the Political Amazon:

In 1987, FCF wrote that they had 'contributed a balanced perspective and essential new information much needed in volatile public discussions over Chile's efforts--in the face of Marxist terrorism and violence-- to reestablish democratic government...' The FCF says that in 1986, Weyrich, William Kling and other conservatives conducted a seminar on 'political technology' in Santiago for nearly one hundred activists. (B-65)

"A July 1988 forum in Santiago, Chile, sponsored by Weyrich's International Policy Forum, was one of three trips William Kling made to Chile in 1988. The forum was funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) through the Republican Party. The NED was established to give U.S. government funds to groups conducting activities identical to those which were historically funded covertly by the Central Intelligence Agency. A similar forum in Argentina was also NED-funded through the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Free Congress materials were distributed there in Spanish.(B-66)"

http://politicalamazon.com/fcf.html

And Pinochet did not kill 100's, to be exact he murdered over 3000 people.

[Viking12]

1. Yes, the Human Rights abuses in Chile

were very popular among the right-wingnuts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_Chile