Bush needs educating about the war he, and Cheney didn’t want to go to. For one thing the “killing fields” took place in Cambodia, they were the result to the Khmer Rouge taking power as a result of American medaling in Cambodian affairs.
As the Vietnam War progressed, Sihanouk adopted an official policy of neutrality until he was ousted in 1970 by a military coup led by Prime Minister General Lon Nol, who was supported by the USA.
Sihanouk realigned himself with the communist Khmer Rouge rebels who had been slowly gaining territory in the remote mountain regions and urged his followers to help in overthowing the unpopular pro-United States government of Lon Nol, hastening the onset of civil war.
In “Operation Menu”, a series of secret B-52 bombing raids by the United States on suspected Viet Cong bases and supply routes inside Cambodia, was acknowledged after Lon Nol assumed power; U.S. forces briefly invaded Cambodia in a further effort to disrupt the Viet Cong. The bombing continued and, as the Cambodian communists began gaining ground.
In November 1978, Vietnam invaded Cambodia to stop Khmer Rouge incursions across the border and the genocide of Vietnamese in Cambodia.
As usual Bush tends to paint all conflicts in a region wit h the same brush. Arabs are terrorists, Asians are Communists, black people are niggers…oh sorry…didn’t mean to let the Bush out of the bag.
Mr. President please do not invoke a war you ran away from. You don’t know shit about it so avoid looking any stupider and shut the hell up. Concentrate on the war you started not the one started by your dead Texas predecessor.
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