Posted on 06/05/2007 8:14:50 AM PDT by toast
Holy hell you have your facts backwards. Jeez man US involvement in the region was a direct factor causing the Khmer genocide with US and Ching BACKING pol pot. you need to get your sh*t straight.
“aided by the CIA and other U.S. agents in the early 1960s, Vang Pao and his Hmong army fought a “secret war” that in some respects came to rival the armed struggle in neighboring Vietnam.”
-more like U.S. CIA and agents aided BY the Hmong....big difference
Actually, it could just as easily be argued that the libs are defending the current Politically Correct status quo against the attempts of conservatives to instutute a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Depends on whom one considers to be “the majority.” Moreover, during the reign of King George III, there was a substantial majority of the people who declined to become involved one way or the other, whatever their sympathies; the army of George Washington almost evaporated at Valley Forge. There were also a great many loyalists to the Crown, who were exiled to Canada after the revolution. Either we “hold these truths to be self-evident,” or we don’t.
Pol Pot was supported by the Chinese and Vietnamese in 1975. From Wiki:
In 1970, Premier Lon Nol and the National Assembly deposed Norodom Sihanouk as head of state. The government then reversed Sihanouk's policies of allowing Cambodian ports to be used for Vietnamese weapons traffic and permitting the Vietnamese bases on Cambodian soil. Some considered these actions as part of a pro-United States policy by the government. Sihanouk, opposing the new government, entered into an alliance with the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodian government. Taking advantage of Vietnamese occupation of eastern Cambodia, massive U.S. carpet bombing ranging across the country, and Sihanouk's reputation, the Khmer Rouge were able to present themselves as a peace-oriented party in a coalition that represented the majority of the people. With large popular support in the countryside, they were able to take the capital Phnom Penh on 17 April 1975. They continued to use King Norodom Sihanouk as a figurehead for the government.
Are you confusing the Hmong and the Khmer Rouge?
Bush clearly wants the Hmong to come to America and do the jobs Americans just won’t do.
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