Videla admits to mass murder in Argentina

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I would be angry many people have been tortured for being suspected of terrorism in the US many people who tortured and it turned out they where innocent.

They all share a dislike of the US.

I can sort of understand that dislike of the U.S. - at the time, half of the U.S. administration favoured the Argentines over the Falklands and barely lifted a finger to help their closest friends!

On the evening of the 3 April, Britain's United Nations ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons put a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council. The resolution, which condemned the hostilities and demanded immediate Argentine withdrawal from the Islands was adopted by the council the following day as United Nations Security Council Resolution 502, which passed with ten votes in support, one against and four abstentions (China, the Soviet Union and Spain among them).[24][25][26] The UK received further political support from the Commonwealth of Nations and the European Economic Community. The EEC also provided economic support by imposing economic sanctions on Argentina. Argentina itself was politically backed by a majority of countries in Latin America and the Non-Aligned Movement

The war was an unexpected event in a world strained by the Cold War and the North–South divide. The response of some countries was the effort to mediate the crisis and later as the war began, the support (or criticism) based in terms of anti-colonialism, political solidarity, historical relationships or realpolitik. In other cases it was only verbal support.

The United States initially tried to mediate an end to the conflict. However, when Argentina refused the U.S. peace overtures, U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig announced that the United States would prohibit arms sales to Argentina and provide material support for British operations. Both Houses of the U.S. Congress passed resolutions supporting the U.S. action siding with the United Kingdom.

An important factor was military support. The USA provided the United Kingdom with military equipment ranging from submarine detectors to the latest missiles. France provided dissimilar aircraft training so Harrier pilots could train against the French aircraft used by Argentina. French and British intelligence also worked to prevent Argentina from obtaining more Exocet missiles on the international market. Chile gave support to Britain in the form of Intelligence about Argentine military and radar early warning.

While France overtly backed the United Kingdom, a French technical team remained in Argentina throughout the war. French government sources have said the French team was engaged in intelligence-gathering; however, it simultaneously provided direct material support to the Argentines, identifying and fixing faults in Exocet missile launchers.

According to an article in La Nación and quoting from a book Operation Israel, advisors from Israel Aerospace Industries were already in Argentina and continued their work during the conflict. The article also says that Israel sold weapons and drop tanks in a secret operation in Peru.

Peru also openly sent "Mirages, pilots and missiles" to Argentina during the war. Through Libya, under Muammar Gaddafi, Argentina received 20 launchers and 60 SA-7 missiles, as well as machine guns, mortars and mines, all in all, the load of four trips of two Boeing 707 of the AAF, refuelled in Recife with the knowledge and consent of the Brazilian government.

I can sort of understand that dislike of the U.S. - at the time, half of the U.S. administration favoured the Argentines over the Falklands and barely lifted a finger to help their closest friends!

OK, how would you feel if this happened to thousands of people, most of whom were completely innocent. One day they were at home cooking dinner, the next they were having their fingernails pulled out and had broken glass forced into their anus because someone suspected they might have been terrorists, so they wanted to inflict appalling terror and mutilation upon them? When they are finished, they are brutally murdered and are never seen again.

I'm sure many members of the Reagan administration would have been horrified that French and British intelligence worked to prevent Argentina from obtaining Exocet missiles on the international market, as this represents a damnable violation of the Second Amendment.

The pilots of the 2d Escuadrilla, trained in France in 1980–81, were fully qualified with the aircraft. However, at the time the conflict in the Falklands began, only five of the Super Etendards and five Exocet missiles had been delivered from France. The Common Market nations and NATO immediately initiated an arms embargo on Argentina, therefore halting the French shipments of planes and missiles. Throughout the conflict, the Argentine government tried desperately but unsuccessfully to obtain more Exocets on the world market. Argentina would have to fight the war with only five Etendards and Exocet missiles. Since spare parts for the Etendards were cut off by the NATO arms embargo, the FAA decided to hold one of the five fighters in reserve and use it for parts to support the remaining four aircraft.

The Argentinians had no previous experience with antiship missiles, and the Exocet was a complicated and cranky weapon. The Argentinians experienced a lot of trouble fitting the Exocet launch system and rails to the Super Etendards. In November 1981, Dassault Aviation, owned by the French government and builder of the Super Etendard, sent a team of nine of its own technicians (and some additional French Aerospatiale specialists) to work with the Argentine navy to supervise the introduction of the Etendards and Exocets. Although France complied with the NATO/ Common Market weapons embargo, the French technical team remained in Argentina and apparently continued to work on the aircraft and Exocets, successfully repairing the malfunctioning launch systems. Without the technical help and collusion from the government of France—Britain’s NATO “ally”—it is improbable that Argentina would have been able to employ its most devastating weapon.

I would still feel the same the world is not perfect life is hard period even if your not the victim of such things.

You're disgusting.

That is how I feel can't help I aswered your qesrtion and was honest with my answer.

If you seriously feel like that, you obviously don't have any empathy for your fellow man or much in the way of decency to human beings. It's an inhuman response.

How would you feel if your mother was kidnapped by the state and tortured on the - entirely bogus - premise that she was a terrorist? Even when you knew she was nothing of the sort, she was just a peaceable, normal being but someone disliked her so she ended up being brutalised?

You know, the world is really not a nice place, and the human race is not a lovable species. Can you get used to that? I can and I have. If I let outrage rule my life, my head would explode

Great point, Chile at that time was also in the US administration's pocket but they sided with us over the Falklands due the reasons I stated before in the thread. OK the Pinochet junta was just as bad the Videla junta for human rights violations. The Yanks had other puppets in political power in Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil at that same time! Them four South American countries sided with the Argies.

Course they share a dislike of the US, the US was involved (or at least gave a hand) in bringing the Argentinean government responsible for los desaparecidos to power in the first place. Then the US also continued to support that government while they were in power.

Nixon and Kissinger both had a direct involvement in the '73 coup that got Pinochet into power. I know two Chilean guys who escaped the Caravana de la Muerte.