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To: Thomas M. who wrote (55476)	10/29/2002 12:33:00 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

But, since we directly slaughtered a million Cambodians, Yeah, we just lined them up and shot them all, didn't we. Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge and their Chinese backers had nothing to do with it. You must live in a state of denial about what the Communist Thugs did in the last Century.

To: Thomas M. who wrote (55476)	10/29/2002 12:57:35 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Yep, but it was our presence in Cambodia that caused the upheaval that brought Pol Pot to power in 75, two years after we supposedly left. The Communist Khmer Rouge came to power in this small Southeast Asian nation in 1975 as part of the vast upheaval caused largely by the spilling over of the Vietnam War. Peasants were ruined by the war’s destruction, and many supported the Khmer Rouge guerrillas when they overthrew an American-backed military government just days before South Vietnam fell. In the four years they were in power, the Khmer Rouge tried to turn Cambodia into a self-sufficient, agrarian utopia. They forced people to move from cities to the countryside and murdered the educated and the skilled. More than 1 million people were killed or died of starvation. pbs.org