Reply #10: Boy, you sure gloss over a lot of wanton, systematic torture and murder [View All]

[mudplanet]

as "cut corners galore." I'd like to see how glib you'd be if one of those cut corners was your daughter or son who was tortured and murdered for legally exercising their rights. Fujimori is a good example, all right, unless you were one of the people that was pulled off of the bus outside of Ayacucho and summarily executed by a government death squad. But, mistakes will happen, I guess. Or one of the mothers at El Mozote who had to watch as the Salvadoran soldier trained at Fort Benning take a US supplied rifle, impale her infant with it and tossed the child screaming down a well. Or working for justice in Nicaragua, or Haiti, or Honduras, or Guatemala.

Bush wasn't that bad: he's only responsible for starting two illegal unnecessary wars that have resulted in something like a million completely unnecessary deaths and untold torture sessions (so far) while Hitler started a war that killed 50 million people. It's a matter of scale, I guess. When you look at it that way, I guess Ted Bundy was really a pretty nice fellow.

Chavez hasn't tortured or murdered anyone.