Are you sure you want to go there, Bush? You student of history, you.

[King Coal]

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.

* 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).

* 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.

* The "enemy," the Vietnamese Communists, were the ones who put a stop to the Khmer Rouge.

* 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.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1261

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. And let us not forget the pivotal role that "humanitarian" Kissinger played in that debacle

[no_hypocrisy]

2. And Ho Chi Mingh asked for help from President Wilson in Paris for gaining

independence of Vietnam from France in 1919, and he wasn't even granted an audience. (Another example of the hypocrisy of this country touting democracy for all.)