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echo: barktopus
to: Adam Flinton
from: jeff
date: 2004-10-28 16:14:42
subject: Re: Vietnam vs. Iraq

From: jeff 

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.

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