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2009-02-16 Southeast Asia

Cambodia Holds First Trial of Khmer Rouge Leader for Genocide

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Posted by Steve White 2009-02-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The Khmer Rouge took power after a U.S. bombing campaign during the Vietnam War stirred discontent in the countryside against General Lon Nol's coup-installed government.

IIUC, that is a LOAD OF BULLSH*T.
1) We were bombing parts of Cambodia whose peasant population had been driven away by the NVA. THERE WERE NO CIVILIANS IN THOSE AREAS- Only murderous North Vietnamese.
2) Lon Nol fell because our traitorous congress refused to sell him arms to beat the KR off.
I wasn't there, so if someone has a different interpretation, please correct me.

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2009-02-16 15:48|| 2009-02-16 15:48|| Front Page Top

#2 FR - I was in Saigon in 1970-71, working at the 12th Reconnaissance Intelligence Technical Squadron. We supplied all the imagery intelligence to Hq. 7th Air Force. We saw quite a bit of imagery taken of Cambodia, and I can confirm that there were darned few civilians in the areas occupied by the NVA. Those were the only areas we bombed. I can also confirm that the NVA had taken over several of the cultural treasures of Cambodia, and used them for military purposes. Angkor Wat was used as an NVA field hospital. I can also confirm that it was the DEMOCRATIC Congress that screwed Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and did their level best to "lose" Thailand. The Thais were able to defend themselves.

Some of the people that screwed Southeast Asia are still around, including at least three or four in the Senate. I'd personally LOVE to hang them all for treason, but unfortunately I'm not running things, and probably never will.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-02-16 19:37|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-02-16 19:37|| Front Page Top

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