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To: Thomas M. who wrote (1543)	5/20/2003 10:01:46 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

All countries which have had communist revolutions have had bloodbaths afterward. Some bigger than others. Cambodia's was particularly bad on a percentage basis strictly because of the policies of the Khmer Rouge leadership. The Soviet Union and China revolutions killed tens of millions of people over a period of decades - entire socio-economic classes (like landlords and kulaks) were "liquidated". But as a percent of the population Cambodia's was the worst. It certainly did not help that we left a power vaccuum in Cambodia, in an utterly devastated society. Power vacuum? Just victorious communists running things is all. And internal documents have shown that we knew our actions were leading to the rise of a very brutal regime. Every body knew a communist regime would be brutal. That is a given. A logical conclusion would be that we desired this outcome, so that people like you could point to the brutality as a justification of our crimes. Paranoia not logic working there. By the way, after the killing fields became known to the world, the U.S. then provided crucial support to keep Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge going. That would be China who did that. The Khmer Rouge committed their genocide between their victory in 1975 and the Vietnamese invasion of 1978. The only Americans who supported the Khmer Rouge were the far leftists like Chomsky and Herman who tried to provide rhetorical cover for the regime during these years.