Tom hit the nail on the head, it was noted in the election campaign too.
But were we giving arms to the Khymr Rouge,,come on VN guys, who can remember. I don't think so. But war makes odd bedfellows.
I thought the KR were not formed until later.
That's nonsense. The Khmer Rouge did not get fully organized until 1970, and even then it had barely 3,000 troops. John Kerry was already back in the States for a year and protesting the war by that time.
There's no way we backed it. It was the Communist Party of Kampuchea.