nino_savatte
No pasaran!
rachamim18 said:
LOL!!! You are a "Westerner".
Boat people, re-education camps, and killing-fields.
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LOL!!! You are a "Westerner".
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
rachamim18 said:
Your choice, don't whine.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
ViolentPanda said:
But his whines are vintage!
Panda: not whining, it was not my chocie though. Still glad for the expereince, it taught me much about being an adult.
JoePolitix
Gone
For anybody who is a little baffled by the rather cryptic OP, the mention of "boat people," "re-education camps," and "killing fields" comes from a recent speech given by George W Bush at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention. The full quote reads:
A revolting paragraph that is an insult to history, morality and the truth.
On a minor point, as Foreigner pointed out, re-education camps had already been used in China. Foreigner also correctly pointed out that the Khmer Rouge had covert backing from the US and its allies (not to mention the fact that the bombing of Indo-China directly contributed to the rise of Pol Pot’s movement).
However what is truely disgusting about Bush’s remarks is his total failure to acknowledge the mass killing, torture and rape of millions of Indo-Chinese by the US and its fascist proxies. I guess I’d been under the impression that even amongst the US elite the Vietnam war now regarded as a bloody mistake but apparently that fuckwit Bush thinks that it ended too soon.
Bush was of course using the Vietnam analogy to justify the ongoing war in Iraq. For those with a better grasp of history different conclusions might be drawn.
A revolting paragraph that is an insult to history, morality and the truth.
On a minor point, as Foreigner pointed out, re-education camps had already been used in China. Foreigner also correctly pointed out that the Khmer Rouge had covert backing from the US and its allies (not to mention the fact that the bombing of Indo-China directly contributed to the rise of Pol Pot’s movement).
However what is truely disgusting about Bush’s remarks is his total failure to acknowledge the mass killing, torture and rape of millions of Indo-Chinese by the US and its fascist proxies. I guess I’d been under the impression that even amongst the US elite the Vietnam war now regarded as a bloody mistake but apparently that fuckwit Bush thinks that it ended too soon.
Bush was of course using the Vietnam analogy to justify the ongoing war in Iraq. For those with a better grasp of history different conclusions might be drawn.
Joe: Could you be a bit more specific about which part irks you in your article?
KR has US support? How? Please elaborate.
I also find your view that the calamities caused by deployment in Viet Nam during its civil war to be strange , and that is putting it mildly The North was trying to heap its faultly ideology upon the South. The North was controlled by the Chinese and since we know who supplied the North, it was deemed only fair to try and help even the odds.
KR has US support? How? Please elaborate.
I also find your view that the calamities caused by deployment in Viet Nam during its civil war to be strange , and that is putting it mildly The North was trying to heap its faultly ideology upon the South. The North was controlled by the Chinese and since we know who supplied the North, it was deemed only fair to try and help even the odds.
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