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From: berman@ihlpg.UUCP (Andrew S. Berman)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Kampuchea and Responsibility
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Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 15:43:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 28 15:43:20 1985
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> When Vietnam
>came, the killing stopped, but the famine started, and a second million
>died.  Did the Soviets send aid?  No.  Anyway, due to general hardships of
>holocausts, another million Cambodians died in 1975-1985, for a total
>of at least three million.  But it's really ok, as long as the US is no
>longer involved, right?
>
>			Greg Kuperberg
>
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Can you honestly say that the interruption in food production in South
East Asia, Vietnam, Laos, and Kampuchea was not due in large part to
the massive bombing and herbicide-spraying for years on end? We know
what Agent Orange has done to our own Vietnam Veterans. What the hell
do you think it did to the people on the ground?  Indeed the difficult
times that Southeast Asia has experienced since the end of US military
internvention, the hunger, the dislocation, and indeed the ravages of the
Pol Pot regime can be blamed in large part on the massive destruction wrought upon
thoses nations by the Johnson and Nixon regimes.


At the Paris Peace Accords, the US (alias Henry Kissenger) pledged
$20 Billion dollars to help rebuild southeast asia. Not one cent
has been forthcoming.
If you seek to blame all the sins of the world on the Soviets, that's too
damn convenient. They sin plenty; but they aren't responsible
for the crimes that have been committed by our administrations against
the peoples of Southeast Asia, El Salavador, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic,
ad infinitim.

Work to right the wrongs...that's patriotism.


                                            Andy Berman