Pol Pot's leftist cheerleaders

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This article is dated but should always serve as a reminder that American leftists were indeed silent and in a state of denial when Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge took control in Cambodia executing over 2 1/2 million people.

American Leftists were Pol Pot's cheerleaders

By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | April 30, 1998


The death of Pol Pot, 23 years to the day after he and the Khmer Rouge seized control of Cambodia, occasioned long backward glances at one of the 20th century's most horrific genocides. It was noted everywhere that the communist reign of terror in Cambodia lasted nearly four years and that at least 1 million human beings -- by some estimates as many as 2 1/2 million -- were murdered in an orgy of executions, torture, and starvation.

``In the name of a radical utopia,'' The New York Times recalled in its long obituary, ``the Khmer Rouge regime had turned most of the people into slaves. . . . Dictatorial village leaders and soldiers told the people whom to marry and how to live, and those who disobeyed were killed. [Those] who did not bend to the political mania were buried alive, or tossed into the air and speared on bayonets. Some were fed to crocodiles.'' Nearby was a photograph of human skulls -- emblem of the dreadful ``killing fields'' in which the communists butchered a quarter of Cambodia's people.

But nowhere in the Times story was there a reminder that the Khmer Rouge was able to seize power only after the US Congress in 1975 cut off all aid to the embattled pro-American government of Lon Nol -- and that it did so despite frantic warnings of the bloodbath that would ensue. President Ford warned of ``horror and tragedy'' if Cambodia was abandoned to the Khmer Rouge and pleaded with Congress to supply Lon Nol's army with the tools it needed to defend itself.

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Wait--are you saying that we must fight other people's wars?

Oh well, since the Leftists are so enamoured with Pol Pot and the "radical utopia", when are they celebrating his birthday? April 20th?
 
Wait--are you saying that we must fight other people's wars?

Oh well, since the Leftists are so enamoured with Pol Pot and the "radical utopia", when are they celebrating his birthday? April 20th?

Hitler was born April 20th.

Personally, I think hitler was gay, particularly after reading an extensive biography about him. You should read what his trenchmates said about him during WWI. He didn't want to hang out with girls, preferring to play with his dog in the corner of the trench.

Weirdo!
 
Wait--are you saying that we must fight other people's wars?

Oh well, since the Leftists are so enamoured with Pol Pot and the "radical utopia", when are they celebrating his birthday? April 20th?

Hitler was born April 20th.

Personally, I think hitler was gay, particularly after reading an extensive biography about him. You should read what his trenchmates said about him during WWI. He didn't want to hang out with girls, preferring to play with his dog in the corner of the trench.

Weirdo!

Maybe he thought 'syphilis wasn't his friend'.
 
Hitler was born April 20th.

Personally, I think hitler was gay, particularly after reading an extensive biography about him. You should read what his trenchmates said about him during WWI. He didn't want to hang out with girls, preferring to play with his dog in the corner of the trench.


It's interesting, isn't it-- because strictly speaking, Adolf's service was fairly sterling. He delivered messages under heavy fire and never seemed to shirk his duty, according to sources. But the fact is that no one liked him- and usually military service brings guys together.

It's also important to recall that his first shock troops- the Brown Shirts were made up almost entirely of gay men, whom he later betrayed and had killed...


 
Right wing revisionist history must be contagious...

There was a civil war going on in Cambodia, the people didn't support Lon Nol, they backed Norodom Sihanouk and the Chinese backed the communists...in 1970 Congress approved $155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government...

By 1975, Lon Nol was holding little more than Phnom Penh.

ALL the money in the world wouldn't have changed the outcome...

The Vietnam war destroyed the Democratic Party...

Ironic..."Scoop" Jackson's far left war hawks were jettisoned by the Dems, but don't fret for these bloodthirsty ideologs... they're alive and well .....IN TODAY'S GOP...

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Oh, newsflah, who put Pol Pot out of power?

Yup, the North Vietnamese army, the age old posterchild of the American conservatives.
Beeing Manly rightist conservatives, the totally republican Warriors of North Vietnam were not even daunted by China invading them in response, after this they had a niece Barbecue!

In fact, they were so awesomly conservative rightists, that some 200.000 Chinese soldiers failed to make any headway against their Militia movement and ran away quickly before the regular army returned to the battlefield.

No really, Pol Pot is one of the things that no republican spin doctor should attempt to spin in his favor, the facts are simply to much against any such attempt.
 
This article is dated but should always serve as a reminder that American leftists were indeed silent and in a state of denial when Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge took control in Cambodia executing over 2 1/2 million people.

American Leftists were Pol Pot's cheerleaders

By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | April 30, 1998



Continued here: Link



I always celebrate Pol Pot's birthday. I think its a state holiday in some of the liberal, anti-american parts of america!



p.s. Didn't Ronnie Raygun support the khmer rouge rebels, when vietnam invaded and took over cambodia?
 
This article is dated but should always serve as a reminder that American leftists were indeed silent and in a state of denial when Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge took control in Cambodia executing over 2 1/2 million people.

American Leftists were Pol Pot's cheerleaders

By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | April 30, 1998

Jeff Jackoff, LOL, just another scripted GOP liar

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This article is dated but should always serve as a reminder that American leftists were indeed silent and in a state of denial when Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge took control in Cambodia executing over 2 1/2 million people.

American Leftists were Pol Pot's cheerleaders

By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | April 30, 1998


The death of Pol Pot, 23 years to the day after he and the Khmer Rouge seized control of Cambodia, occasioned long backward glances at one of the 20th century's most horrific genocides. It was noted everywhere that the communist reign of terror in Cambodia lasted nearly four years and that at least 1 million human beings -- by some estimates as many as 2 1/2 million -- were murdered in an orgy of executions, torture, and starvation.

``In the name of a radical utopia,'' The New York Times recalled in its long obituary, ``the Khmer Rouge regime had turned most of the people into slaves. . . . Dictatorial village leaders and soldiers told the people whom to marry and how to live, and those who disobeyed were killed. [Those] who did not bend to the political mania were buried alive, or tossed into the air and speared on bayonets. Some were fed to crocodiles.'' Nearby was a photograph of human skulls -- emblem of the dreadful ``killing fields'' in which the communists butchered a quarter of Cambodia's people.

But nowhere in the Times story was there a reminder that the Khmer Rouge was able to seize power only after the US Congress in 1975 cut off all aid to the embattled pro-American government of Lon Nol -- and that it did so despite frantic warnings of the bloodbath that would ensue. President Ford warned of ``horror and tragedy'' if Cambodia was abandoned to the Khmer Rouge and pleaded with Congress to supply Lon Nol's army with the tools it needed to defend itself.

Continued here: Link

We were up to our asses in a little something we called Viet Nam moron. So now you want to blame "leftists" for what happened in Cambodia? Stupid is a step up..reach for it.
 
We cannot really blame people for being misinformed.

The people doing it are genuses at doing it, plus they are enormously wealthy and capable of paying for countless sham think tanks to give their bullshit the small of academic clarity, too.
 
Was ousted from power by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge...
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Former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk Dies
October 14, 2012 — Chinese state media reports that Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk, one of Southeast Asia's defining leaders, has died in Beijing. He was 89. King Sihanouk led Cambodia to independence, but war and his role in the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge marred his life and times.
Flamboyant monarch, politician, film and music maker, King Norodom Sihanouk brought his ancient kingdom through independence from France, war and genocide to form a fragile democracy. Sihanouk, born in 1922, was an only child whose parents were estranged. He was educated in Saigon and Paris, and came to the throne as a shy student of 19 in 1941. In October 2004, in fading health, he abdicated in favor of his son, Norodom Sihamoni. Another of Sihanouk's sons, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, spoke in 2002 of his father's artistic gifts and broad interests. "He has made 21 movies. But not only is my father a filmmaker, but he is a great politician, even unique … and also great French cuisine amateur, great musician, composer. No one can imitate my royal father," he said. Sihanouk quickly developed into a flamboyant, tough politician whose support came mainly from the people in the provinces.

He ruled his kingdom off and on more than 60 years, and was an important symbol for his people, who witnessed one of the most tragic genocidal reigns of the 20th century. Author and commentator on Cambodia, David Chandler says Sihanouk was a powerful link between ancient traditions and modern times. "He brought Cambodia into the world, whereas the French had kept it cocooned and isolated for … 90 years …. But (he) was also … a figure of the old Cambodia," he said. While Cambodia was still under French rule in 1947, he issued a constitution promising parliamentary government. Cambodia gained partial independence within the French Union in 1949, but Sihanouk campaigned for the total independence that came peacefully in November 1953.

Two years later, Sihanouk abdicated the throne to his father, while remaining head of the government. In that position, Sihanouk held a monopoly on power for the next 15 years in what became known as the "Sihanouk Era." On the world stage, Sihanouk was a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement, which was meant to serve as ballast in the Cold War between the Sino-Soviet bloc and the West. Sihanouk, however, failed to fend off insurrections by both communist rebels and from within his own government. During the Vietnam War, rebels backed by China and other communist governments built strength, and the North Vietnamese army also frequently crossed into Cambodia as they fought the United States. Eventually, he was overthrown.

Carl Thayer, a U.S. expert on Southeast Asia, explains. "He was overthrown when he was overseas begging Moscow and Beijing to stop their support for it (the Vietnam War)," he said. Stripped of his power, Sihanouk fled to China in 1970 where his agitation against the new government started an internal conflict that paved the way for the genocidal rule of the Khmer Rouge. After the Khmer Rouge swept into Phnom Penh in early 1975, Sihanouk aligned himself with the radical communists, believing it was a key to power. But by 1976, he was sidelined and fearing for his life. The Khmer Rouge fell in early 1979, after Vietnam invaded. But Sihanouk's name was soiled by his association with the movement, which took the lives of almost two million Cambodians. Cambodia's civil strife continued after Vietnam withdrew its troops in 1989, and in 1991, warring factions agreed to a cease-fire and signed a U.N.-backed peace agreement. The deal enabled Sihanouk to return to Phnom Penh in 1991 from exile. He regained his throne in 1993, and became a central figure the country's political development over the past decade. Norodom Sihanouk was one of Southeast Asia's defining leaders during some of the most turbulent years of the 20th century.

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A king who guided his country to independence, but also aligned himself with the notorious Khmer Rouge...
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Cambodia's Former King Leaves Mixed Legacy
October 15, 2012 — The passing of Cambodia's former King Norodom Sihanouk has ended an ambitious and controversial era for an influential monarch. A mixed legacy remains from a king who guided his country to independence, but also aligned himself with the notorious Khmer Rouge.
Sihanouk was chosen by France in 1941 to be a puppet leader for its colony. The young king became a unifying force pushing for independence, however, which he achieved in 1953. He then abdicated his throne for politics and effectively served as the country’s ruler for the next 17 years. Milton Osborne is a visiting fellow at Sydney's Lowy Institute and an author of two books on Sihanouk. "In Cambodia, there's something of a belief that the period of Sihanouk time, as it's referred to in Cambodia, was a sort of golden age. People tend to forget the period when he was ready to unleash fearsome pursuit of those he saw as his enemies," said Osborne.

Khmer Rouge era

Those enemies included Cambodia's communists who would later become the Khmer Rouge. During the Vietnam war, Sihanouk failed to stop Vietnam's communist forces from crossing into Cambodia, leading to U.S. bombings. He was deposed in a 1970 military coup and fled into exile in China and North Korea. Sihanouk's desire to regain power led him to align himself with his former enemies, the communists. This political shift led to foreign alliances that continued for the rest of his life. Benny Widyono was a U.N. representative to Cambodia in the mid 1990s and author of the book "Dancing in Shadows: Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the U.N. in Cambodia." "During that period when he was still with the Khmer Rouge, his two friends were [North] Korea and China, and he spent a lot of time there,” said Widyono.

Palace in Pyongyang

The Cambodian king’s ties to North Korea were such that leader Kim Il Sung built him a 60-room palace in Pyongyang. He gets the treatment of a real king there in his palace there in North Korea and he even gets, has a present from the [North] Korean government to have his bodyguards. These are all very burly North Koreans, you know, very no-nonsense bodyguards. And, until all the time he has these North Korean bodyguards with him," said Widyono. The Khmer Rouge returned Sihanouk to Cambodia where they used his image as a way to gain legitimacy. Afterward, he was placed under arrest in the palace. During this time, Sihanouk could only watch as the Khmer Rouge went on to starve, work, and murder as many as 2 million Cambodians. In 1979, he fled again to China as Vietnam invaded Cambodia, ending the Khmer Rouge regime.

Constitutional monarchy

United Nations-sponsored elections helped return Sihanouk to the throne under a constitutional monarchy. But he had little power, while his son, Norodom Ranariddh, shared a dual prime minister position with Hun Sen. Sihanouk never regained the influence he once had in Cambodia, which Widyono said was a lifelong disappointment for Sihanouk. "When I was there in Cambodia he complained to me, when I was the ambassador of the U.N., he complained to me that he is their king that reigns, but does not rule because it's really Hun Sen and Ranariddh, the two prime ministers, who have the power. So, he feels like he is always this goal of him to be the leader of a prosperous Cambodia has eluded him all his life," said Widyono. Hun Sen ousted Ranariddh in 1997, becoming the sole power in Cambodia.

Sihanouk remembered
 
Atrocities comin' out at trial...
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Khmer Rouge abuses recalled at trial
Oct. 23,`12 (UPI) -- A former Lon Nol soldier has told a court in Cambodia he was forced to collect human waste and spread it on fields with his own hands.
Chum Sokha, who was 20 at the time Phnom Penh fell in 1975, testified Monday in the trial of top Khmer Rouge officials, the Phnom Penh Post reported.

Sokha, one of the parties in a civil suit against the leaders, said he did the work for six months in a rural cooperative. He had buried his uniform when the Khmer Rouge came to power, but Sokha said his father was taken away when his military connections became known and he was never seen again.

Sokha became emotional on the stand, prompting objections from attorney Andrew Ianuzzi, who is representing Nuon Chea, the party's chief ideologist.

Ianuzzi said Sokha's grief was outside the scope of the trial, and the judge asked witnesses to keep descriptions as limited as possible.

Read more: Former Lon Nol soldier says he was forced to spread human waste - UPI.com
 

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