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Ricardo Lagos Escobar: Socialist Leader of Chile On 19 March 2003 the United States went to war with Iraq with only a few allies. Ricardo Lagos Escobar, president of Chile, said his country will help fight in the war on terrorism alongside the U.S.: This is the first time that I am speaking in the United States after the terrorist attacks of September 11th. [. . .] We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against religion, but against an enemy of them all. Because the aim of terrorists is not only to kill thousands of innocent people, barbarous as it is, they also aim at the fabric of social life, at the bonds that tie us in mutual trust, the bonds that give us freedom, freedom to thing, to choose, and to pursue happiness, as it is stated in your Constitution. [. . .] We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children. We are called to respond and respond we must. We must uproot the networks where terrorism grows. (Excellency 1) An anti-terror socialist ally; what else can we expect from the recently elected leader of Chile? Ricardo Lagos Escobar was born on 2 March 1938. He studied law at