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 Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:55 pm Post subject: Bush, Vietnam, and the Bloodbath: Good for Business |
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Bush, Vietnam, and the Bloodbath: Good for Business
It is, sadly, wholly predictable the wind-up cathy-chatty doll, albeit broken and dysfunctional, George Bush, is able to repeat debunked lies and few take him to task.
“US President George Bush has drawn heavy flak from the Democrats with his warning that a hasty withdrawal from Iraq would trigger a bloodbath similar to that in southeast Asia after the US retreat from Vietnam,” reports Business Day. “Whatever your position is on that debate (of US intervention), one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America’s withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms, such as ‘boat people’, ‘re-education camps’ and ‘killing fields,’” declared the commander and decidership guy, speaking to the usual captive suspects, this time “veterans of 20th-century conflicts in Asia,” that is to say veterans of U.S. aggression against Asia, most notably Vietnam and Cambodia.
In fact, there was no “bloodbath” in Vietnam, at least not of the sort often described by revisionist historians, although there was indeed one in Cambodia. Bush did not mention, nor does he likely know, that in fact the infamous mass murderer of Cambodia, Pol Pot, was supported by the United States. John Pilger writes:
What Kissinger and Nixon began [the premeditated destruction of Cambodia], Pol Pot completed. Had the United States and China allowed it, Cambodia’s suffering could have stopped when the Vietnamese finally responded to years of Khmer Rouge attacks across their border and liberated the country in January 1979. But almost immediately the United States began secretly backing Pol Pot in exile. Direct contact was made between the Reagan White House and the Khmer Rouge when Dr. Ray Cline, a former deputy director of the C.I.A., made a clandestine visit to Pol Pot’s operational base inside Cambodia in November 1980. Cline was then a foreign policy adviser to President-elect Reagan. Within a year some fifty C.l.A. and other intelligence agents were running Washington’s secret war against Cambodia from the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok and along the Thai-Cambodian border. The aim was to appease China, the great Soviet foe and Pol Pot’s most enduring backer, and to rehabilitate and use the Khmer Rouge to bring pressure on the source of recent U. S. humiliation in the region: the Vietnamese. Cambodia was now America’s “last battle of the Vietnam War,” as one U.S. official put it, “so that we can achieve a better result.”
This “better result” culminated in the murder of 1.7 million people, more than 20% of the country’s population. The “better result” of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, according to the Cambodian Genocide Project, “was one of the worst human tragedies of the last century. As in Nazi Germany, and more recently in East Timor, Guatemala, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, the Khmer Rouge regime headed by Pol Pot combined extremist ideology with ethnic animosity and a diabolical disregard for human life to produce repression, misery, and murder on a massive scale.” Add to this the earlier methodical slaughter of 600,000 Cambodians as a result of a particularly brutal and relentless U.S. bombing campaign. John Pilger again: “Phosphorous and cluster bombs, napalm and dump bombs that left vast craters were dropped on a neutral country of peasant people and straw huts. In one six-month period in 1973, more tons of American bombs were dropped on Cambodia than were dropped on Japan during the second world war: the equivalent of five Hiroshimas. The regime of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger did this, secretly and illegally.”
MORE: http://adereview.com/blog/?p=13
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In the world according to Bush, the main lesson we learned from Viet Nam was: NEVER LEAVE.
Elegant in it's simplicity, don't you think?
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