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I know...
historical facts don't really have an affect on what Bush says at his speeches, nor do these facts have very much influence in the formation of thoughts and opinions within the pea-sized brains of the remaining few supporters he has left.
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Lies, Lies, and More Lies, in History-Illiterate AmericaLarry Beinhart
Posted August 25, 2007 | 04:40 PM (EST)
George Bush - and other Iraq War supporters - have argued that if we withdraw from Iraq the result will be like the slaughters - the killing fields -in Cambodia.
Here are the facts:
· The killing fields were real. The genocide against their own people was committed by the Khmer Rouge.
· The Vietnamese - the Communist Vietnamese - were the people who went in and put a stop to it.
· The United States then supported the Khmer Rouge.
Here's how that came to happen.
~SNIP~
When George Bush, or anyone else, uses the Cambodian holocaust as a warning of what might happen if America withdraws from Iraq, remember the facts.
1. Part of the holocaust in Cambodia is directly attributable to American bombing. The 750,000 dead. (Comparable to the number of Iraqis killed by American forces in this war.)
2. The civil war that led to the victory of the Khmer Rouge came about, at least in part, because of America's support of Lon Nol.
3. The "enemy," the Vietnamese Communists, were the ones who put a stop to the Khmer Rouge.
4. The United States supported the Khmer Rouge - after their murders, after the genocide. That support helped a civil war continue for another decade. More death, more destruction.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-beinhart/lies-lies-and-more-lies_b_61810.html