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The forgotten holocaust: 1.8 million Cambodians killed by Pol Pot (US is really to blame, of course)
The Guardian ^ | Monday March 28, 2005 | Tom Fawthrop

Posted on 03/28/2005 11:41:56 AM PST by dead

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1 posted on 03/28/2005 11:41:57 AM PST by dead
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More people died because we left Vietnam than because we went there. Pacifism kills.
2 posted on 03/28/2005 11:45:11 AM PST by bahblahbah
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It would be more accurate to say that US Liberals were to blame.


3 posted on 03/28/2005 11:45:12 AM PST by Sthitch
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It would be more accurate to say that US Liberals were to blame.

Bingo! Walter Cronkite will have a lot of explaining to do, as will other peacenick liberals.

Have liberals EVER been on the right side of history?

4 posted on 03/28/2005 11:47:26 AM PST by Obadiah
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They're not big on stopping genocidal dictators.


5 posted on 03/28/2005 11:47:56 AM PST by mainepatsfan
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Pol Pot was ANOTHER leader who banned guns before mass slaughter innocent people.


6 posted on 03/28/2005 11:48:53 AM PST by LauraleeBraswell ( CONSERVATIVE FIRST-Republican second.)
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To: dead
Ted Kennedy led the charge in denying aid to these people. Kerry went along with it.

DISGUSTING. Hope the truth of this comes out more and more as the years go by.

7 posted on 03/28/2005 11:49:31 AM PST by what's up
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I know what you mean!

I hope this comes out right, but I'm trying to make a point. Many who like to criticize the US, by the selectivity of their complaints, reveal their own bias. For instance, can you imagine a Ward Churchill type trashing the US because it allied itself with the mass murderer Joseph Stalin in WWII, or because it did not honor its commitments to the South Vietnamese people to shore up the cease fire? Of course not. All you hear is the standard criticism of the US from the left - Hiroshima, Allende, etc. What I mean is that the events they pick and choose to present out of context to slander the country almost always seem to be "fron the left" and not from an extreme anti-leftist perspective. Then again, I don't know everything that's out there, in the world of pundits, etc. Oh well.


8 posted on 03/28/2005 11:50:51 AM PST by cvq3842
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To: bahblahbah

Thank you Jane Fonda and John Kerry.


9 posted on 03/28/2005 11:50:54 AM PST by kaehurowing
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10 posted on 03/28/2005 11:53:09 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Being liberal means never having to say you're sorry!


11 posted on 03/28/2005 11:56:11 AM PST by marlon
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Actually, most of the deaths were directly attributable to certain Americans: The Anti-War activists, who demanded immediate exit from SE Asia.

Mark

12 posted on 03/28/2005 11:57:20 AM PST by MarkL (I didn't get to where I am today by worrying about what I'd feel like tomorrow!)
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UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, was about to launch an appeal to member states to raise the modest sum of $56m to fund the tribunal that would have investigated the genocide.

What would this tribunal determine?

That Pol Pot and his cronies were bad guys?

Or will they be more interested in assigning monetary damages needing to be paid by the US and other countries?

I'd bet on assigning damages to be paid... No Thanks.

13 posted on 03/28/2005 11:59:02 AM PST by RJL
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Pol Pot killed all those folks, period. This is just another thinly veiled attempt to pick our pocket again with a guilt trip. The left has never seen a problem that more money from the US Treasury wouldn't fix.


14 posted on 03/28/2005 12:00:10 PM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all things that need to be done need to be done by the government.)
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Reporting for doody
15 posted on 03/28/2005 12:03:31 PM PST by John Lenin
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Bottom Line:

Death by Government is, by government definition, Good!

16 posted on 03/28/2005 12:03:38 PM PST by yatros from flatwater (Justice, Justice, you shall pursue!)
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It's Hanoi Jane's fault. She and her friends with their faux, humanitarian indignation at US efforts in Viet Nam made themselves scarce once US forces left SE Asia.


17 posted on 03/28/2005 12:06:22 PM PST by SMARTY
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Ol' Walter won't have to explain a thing. The Devil's waiting to welcome Walter home with a big party.


18 posted on 03/28/2005 12:08:23 PM PST by Little Ray (I'm a reactionary, hirsute, gun-owning, knuckle dragging, Christian Neanderthal and proud of it!)
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To: dead

The Cambodian Killing Fields were the high-water mark of the August 1974-November 1979 Liberal Golden Age.


19 posted on 03/28/2005 12:09:19 PM PST by Chi-townChief
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Being liberal means never having to say you're sorry!

Also means never having to say you're right!


20 posted on 03/28/2005 12:10:22 PM PST by Cat loving Texan
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