So farewell then, President General Suharto, you have put down your panga and left the butchery to others. You climbed to power over a half a million corpses - or was it a million? I don't suppose you knew or cared how many. But Washington loved you for it, you were their son of a bitch. They watched with pride as their protégé killed and tortured and looted. That you were a collaborator with the Japanese during their occupation was of no consequence. You were capable of much more than treason and you proved it. Aceh, East Timor, the list of atrocities is endless. But whatever else you were you were not a Communist. And you would always do America's dirty work, except for that time when you were doing Japan's dirty work.