that the Argentine military junta labeled ALL forms of opposition to its rule as "terrorism".

He calls the opposition in Syria "terrorists".

That's why the "rendition flights" kept landing in Damascus, and the same Syrian police state that our leaders are now sanctimoniously attacking(and which is a horrible regime, for the record)was assisting our leaders then by torturing the people THEY couldn't get away with torturing at U.S. facilities yet(pre-Gitmo).

Old man Assad wouldn't have been doing all that for Dubya out of the pure goodness of his heart.

Looks as if they're trying to wipe out all traces of his outsourced criminality.

Ditto for Chile, Paraguay and every other right wing dictator in the world.

Kissinger backed dirty war against left in Argentina
Transcripts show former secretary of state urged violent crackdown on opposition
Julian Borger in Washington and Uki Goni in Buenos Aires
The Guardian, Friday 27 August 2004 21.33 EDT

Henry Kissinger gave Argentina's military junta the green light to suppress political opposition at the start of the "dirty war" in 1976, telling the country's foreign minister: "If there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly," according to newly-declassified documents published yesterday. State department documents show the former secretary of state urged Argentina to crush the opposition just months after it seized power and before the US Congress convened to consider sanctions.

"We won't cause you unnecessary difficulties. If you can finish before Congress gets back, the better," Mr Kissinger told Admiral Cesar Augusto Guzzetti, the foreign minister, according to the State Department's transcript.

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Mr Verbitsky, who during the 1970s ran an underground news service, said Mr Kissinger made it difficult for the US embassy in Buenos Aires to pressure Argentina's generals on human rights violations. "When US ambassador Robert Hill met with the generals to demand an end to the violence, the generals could say, your boss Kissinger knows what's happening and he doesn't care," he said.

The documents include a state department transcript of a conversation between Mr Kissinger, then secretary of state in the Ford administration and Mr Guzzetti, on October 7 1976, six months after the Argentine military had seized power. By that time the regime's brutality had become clear. Mr Hill sent repeated notes to Washington, describing the abuses and his attempts to get the junta led by President Jorge Videla to stop the "disappearances" of its leftwing opponents.

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/aug/28/argentina.julianborger/print

Why?

(also...I believe that the junta wouldn't give up power without a promise, at the time, of total amnesty. The fascists in Chile did the same thing...and only now are THOSE scumbags getting some measure of what they deserve).