And how the Killing Fields became the Killing Fields?
The Killing Fields Museum - Learn from Cambodia - Home
It's because Democrats decided to just withdraw completely from Vietnam. Condemning not only many Vietnamese to death but MANY Cambodians.
Whether you agree with Vietham or not, Vietnam left us with one very important historical lesson.
You can't just withdraw militarily from a country whether you agree with that war or not. To do so condemns not just hundreds but MILLIONS to their deaths.
Now Obama seeks to repeat that horrible lesson in history for no other reason than to shore up his base for an election that (right now) he is likely to lose.
President Obamas decision to pull all U.S. forces out of
Iraq by Dec. 31 is an absolute disaster that puts the burgeoning Arab democracy at risk of an Iranian strangling, said an architect of the 2007 troop surge that turned around a losing war.
Retired ArmyGen. John M. Keane was at the forefront of persuading President
George W. Bush to scuttle a static counterinsurgency strategy and replace it with 30,000 reinforcements and a more activist, street-by-street counterterrorism tactic.
Today, even with that strategy producing a huge drop in daily attacks,
Gen. Keane bluntly told The Washington Times that the United States again is losing.
I think its an absolute disaster, said
Gen. Keane, who advised
Gen. David H. Petraeus when he was top
Iraq commander. We won the war in
Iraq, and were now losing the peace.
Forty-four hundred lives lost,
Gen. Keane said. Tens of thousands of troops wounded. Over a couple hundred thousand Iraqis killed. We liberated 25 million people. There is only one Arab Muslim country that elects its own government, and that is
Iraq.
We should be staying there to strengthen that democracy, to let them get the kind of political gains they need to get and keep the Iranians away from strangling that country. That should be our objective, and we are walking away from that objective.
Key general calls Iraq pullout plan a 'disaster' - Washington Times
There is a reason why the Democrats didn't gain politically after pulling out of Vietnam. It's because too many Americans saw the attrocities in tht aftermath.
That's one of the reasons Kerry lost in 2008. Too many people remember Kerry's hand in us just pulling out of Vietnam
Does Obama care how many people have died in Iraq?
Does he care that every Iraqi who risked their lives to help our military hunt down terrorists will be condemned to possibile imprisonment, torture and death?
Does he care that every Iraqi that ignored danger to vote in those elections will now have their lives and their children's lives in danger?
Does he care, Iraq will probably be taken over by another tyrant like Hussein?
Oh hell no, he doesn't care. All he cares about is winning an election.
The IDIOTS who think this is a good thing, Obama just withdrawing.
How many times must this happen before LIBERAL MORONS crack open a history book and learn from our past mistakes?
Remember this in 2012.
Remember and VOTE.
Saloth Sar (30 November 1925 15 April 1998),[1][2] better known as Pol Pot, (Khmer: ប៉ុល ពត
, was a Cambodian Chinese revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge[3] from 1963 until his death in 1998. From 1976 to 1979, he served as the Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea.
Pol Pot became leader of Cambodia in mid-1975.[4] During his time in power he imposed a version of agrarian socialism, forcing urban dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labour projects, toward a goal of "restarting civilization" in "Year Zero." The combined effects of forced labour, malnutrition, poor medical care and executions resulted in the deaths of approximately 21 percent of the Cambodian population.[5] In all, an estimated 1,700,0002,500,000 people died under his leadership.
In 1979 after the invasion of Cambodia by neighbouring Vietnam in the CambodianVietnamese War, he fled into the jungles of southwest Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge government collapsed.[6] From 1979 to 1997 he and a remnant of the old Khmer Rouge operated from the border region of Cambodia and Thailand, where they clung to power, with nominal United Nations recognition as the rightful government of Cambodia.
Pol Pot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vietnam is a Communist nation, so sometimes making blanket conclusions might not seem the best thing to do. In fact, when it comes to Cambodia's "killing fields"Pol Pot was fighting a war with Govt. for years and had an established movement in the country since 1962. In the case of Iraq, it is well known and has been known that Iraq consists of 3 different factions and has for thousands of years. See if this sounds familier,
The Sykes-Picot agreement had been made with the assent of Imperial Russia, defining their respective spheres of influence and control in West Asia after the expected downfall of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The Agreement was concluded on 16 May 1916.[31] Britain imposed a Hāshimite monarchy on Iraq and defined the territorial limits of Iraq without taking into account the politics of the different ethnic and religious groups in the country, in particular those of the Kurds and the Assyrians to the north. During the British occupation, the Shi'ites and Kurds fought for independence.
Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I submit to you, that the US leaving the nation of Iraq is not a pullout made from a decision in Washington, but is one more of the Iraqi Govts. making.
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BAGHDAD?Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ruled out the presence of any U.S. troops in Iraq
after the end of 2011, saying his new government and the country's security forces were capable of confronting any remaining threats to Iraq's security, sovereignty and unity
Iraqi Prime Minister Says U.S. Forces Must Leave On Time - WSJ.com
Given these factors, if our presence is not welcomed there, then not only do we needlessly sacrifice our Military in a questionable operation, but we do so for no reason other than to support a regime and a nation that does not want us there in the first place. Frankly, I would not trade one US Military soldier, sailor, airman, or Marine for the entire country and as such , in my humble opinion they cannot get home soon enough to suit me.
