This has to be the epitome of denial. Based on total contravention of reality, in which hundreds of thousands were fleeing the country, under circumstances that would make the flight from Cuba during the regime of Fidel Castro look like a Sunday stroll in the park.
Tom Harkin would be much more convincing if he were to deny global warming. Or the existence of the Holocaust.
Maybe nothing bad EVER happens. At least not in the parallel universe that Tom Harkin inhabits.
And I suppose no one ever saw these little boats, especially those who are vietnamese themselves....
“Nothing bad happened after we left Vietnam”.
Except for the slaughter of over 40,000 South Vietnamese when Saigon was conquered by the North Vietnamese and renamed Ho Chi Minh City, otherwise known as the Fall of Saigon
http://www.afa.org/magazine/april2000/0400saigon.asp