"Her achievements can be viewed in different lights from different standpoints"
As I said - Mussolini made the trains run on time, or claimed to
Thatcher's fascism comes from her own mouth.
You have a description of Pinochet's actions.
You have Thatcher's open support of Pinochet.
You have the effect that Thatcher's policy had on the less well off of Britain
You have Thatchers use of the police and intended use of the army during the miners strike
Put them together and what have you got "bippety, bobbety, boo" no doubt!
What we don't have is the knowledge of which 'Santiago Stadium' she would have used had the unrest her policies caused continued - White City, Wembley......?
The London Dome would have been handy, had it been built then - handy todispose of the bodies into the Thames after she'd finished with them.
As I said, there, but for the grace of - whoever, nearly went Britain.
Long live democracy, as long as it's not Pinochet and Thatcher's particular version of it.
Jim Carroll