FIVE-ALARM CHILE

Right now, Colin Powell has a total Linda Blair thing going. He is posessed by the Bush Fedayeen, and it was those demons that compelled him to sit at the Security Council with a plagiarized dossier and a small vial of god-knows-what.

But today, despite Powell being under the control of the cult of the soulless, it seems the ol' "help me" is rising on his abdomen.

Today he spoke out against that cornerstone of the rabid anticommunist conservatives, the US-instrumented 1973 coup in Chile that gave the world Augusto Pinochet, and gave tens of thousands of Chileans an early assignment to go six feet under.

WASHINGTON - When a student asked Secretary of State Colin Powell about the 1973 military coup in Chile, the retired general turned diplomat made no secret of his deep misgivings about the U.S. role in that upheaval.

"It is not a part of American history that we're proud of," Powell said, quickly adding that reforms instituted since then make it unlikely that the policies of that Cold War era will be repeated.

It's funny, I just mentioned Pinochet in passing in a recent post. I do good work! Now let's get him started on Central America, then on to the mideast, hehe. And he could talk to the pharmaceutical companies about Africa, and Japan about that whole nuke thing, and...