From: Adam Flinton 

Jeff Shultz wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:30:51 +0100, Adam Flinton wrote:
>
>
>>jeff wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Adam Flinton wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Mark wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>"Monte Davis" 
wrote in message
>>>>>news:kdr0o0tj2op6bh3qtsvmj3a7rhdj98k72d{at}4ax.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>"Mark"  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I'm
>>>>>>>referring the millions that died, almost 2
million in Cambodia
>>>>>>>alone...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You're talking about the Khmer Rouge killings --
the ones that were
>>>>>>*stopped* by the Vietnamese army...?!?!?!?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Amazing.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>If you call 2 million dead, stopped, then I have no
reply. I can only
>>>>>fervently hope that you're not successful in electing
your favorite
>>>>>dove next week - woe is us if you do.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>WTF? You dropped more bombs on Cambodia than etc.etc. You
sent in lots
>>>>of armed people into Cambodia.
>>>>The US did *nothing* to stop the Khymer rouge but lots to help (inc
>>>>destabilizing the country etc). The Vietnamese stopped the Khymer
>>>>Rouge.
>>>>
>>>>Adam
>>>
>>>
>>>The Vietnamese were using that chunk of Cambodia that we dropped bombs
>>>on and sent armed people into.
>>>
>>>And thanks to people like Kerry, it was politically impossible (even
>>>if... Carter?... had wanted to) for the US to invade Cambodia and take
>>>out the Khmer Rouge.
>>
>>
>>Ah right, it was not the sight of people clinging to helicopters lifting
>>off from the US Embassy in Saigon then.
>>
>>Adam
>
>
> If we had been allowed to support the Vietnamese people properly,

What total bollox. Aren't those around Hanoi etc "Vietnamese
people"? Or is carpet bombing your std means of supporting people
properly?

You were fighting to prevent the re-unification of a nation.

> that
> would have never happened... I wonder if the Khmer Rouge "Killing
Fields"
> would have happened either?
>

Possibly possibly not. Depends on if you wanted a mano-a-mano in the jungle
scrap with the PLA.


> Hmmmmm. Perhaps, perhaps not - who helped the Khmer Rouge get their start?
>

Kissinger?

> "Khmer Rouge soldiers, aided by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops,
> began a large-scale insurgency against government forces in 1970, quickly
> gaining control over more than two thirds of the country. The strength of
> the Khmer Rouge rose dramatically from around 3,000 in 1970 to more than
> 30,000 in 1973, enabling most of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops
> to withdraw."
> http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/K/KhmerR1ou.asp
>
> I guess you'd better blame the Vietnamese for the Killing Fields then.
>
>

Why?

Adam

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