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To: marcos who started this subject	11/2/2002 5:55:42 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) of 261

I just can't stop laughing when I read this drivel: Thomas doesn't want to acknowledge that the Khmer Rouge was primarily a Maoist revolution, supported primarily by China. I honestly don't even know what slander Hawk was attempting to cast on me. Leave it to John Pilger to tell us the straight facts: <<< Between 1969 and 1973, American bombers killed 750,000 Cambodian peasants with explosives the equivalent of five Hiroshimas. Official US documents leave little doubt that it was this that provided the catalyst for the rise of the Khmer Rouge which, until then, had no popular base. "They are using [the bombing] as the main theme of their propaganda," reported the CIA director of operations on 2 May 1973. "This approach has resulted in the successful recruitment of young men." What Nixon and Kissinger began, Pol Pot completed. And when the Khmer Rouge were finally driven into Thailand by the Vietnamese in 1979, they were received and welcomed into border camps by US covert operations officials, including the same Defence Intelligence Agency colonel who had planned the secret bombing that had helped bring them to power. The Americans, and later the British, set about restoring the Khmer Rouge as the "resistance" to the Vietnamese-backed regime in Phnom Penh. >>> pilger.carlton.com Tom

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