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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (120236)	12/31/2000 7:32:33 PM
From: asenna1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"Nixon with the same only attempting a withdrawal with some dignity. - Tell that joke to the Cambodians and the Laotians. Tell that to the 1 million or so that died because of the Khmer Rouge who followed after Cambodia and Laos were dragged into the war by NIXON. Tell that lie to the Cambodian culture that was destroyed. "There are no American combat troops in Cambodia. There are no American combat advisers in Cambodia. There will be no American combat troops or advisers in Cambodia. We will aid Cambodia. Cambodia is the Nixon doctrine in its purest form...." - President Richard M. Nixon, November 1971 "Nixon with the same only attempting a withdrawal with some dignity. I laugh my ass off reading your pretentious posts. "Those that remember those times intimately, will never forget." Really. Keep going TG, you're on a roll...

To: TideGlider who wrote (120236)	12/31/2000 8:07:04 PM
From: asenna1	Respond to of 769670

"I am stunned by the press and people that feel that every blow should be telegraphed. No boxer would ever do that. A nation cannot be ruled by polling and press editorials. If that were the case we would have no need for a Administration." "The U.S. Congress, increasingly concerned over the president's lack of interest in seeking their consent regarding military operations, soon passed the Cooper-Church Amendment. The amendment legally forbade Nixon from military engagements in Cambodia beyond June 30th as well as prevented US support of the Cambodian armed forces through training and bombing raids. For all intents and purposes, the war in Cambodia was now illegal as far as the Congress was concerned. It was also the first time in US history that the legislative branch had ever restricted the war powers of the executive branch." "Despite the passage of the Cooper-Church Amendment, Nixon was undeterred. The US encouraged the South Vietnamese air force to engage communist targets in Cambodia, which they often did with little regard for collateral civilian casualties." "In a matter of months, Cambodia had devolved from a country plagued by isolated skirmishes to full blown free-fire zone."