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kmudd
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 Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:30 pm Post subject: Chrisssy is going nuts again |
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| Chriss Matthews couldn't understand how 3 million Vietnamese died. Well for one thing the war lasted over 20 years if you count the French was in there before us.Also the VC and North Vietnamese killed untold numbers of civilens both while the war was going on and after. |
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Polaris
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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Matthews needs to read about the "Killing Fields". Then he might begin to understand.
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GenrXr
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:21 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Matthews needs to read about the "Killing Fields". Then he might begin to understand. |
Small correction. The 'Killing Fields' was a name given to the cambodian agricultural landscape. Pol Pot with his CPK (Khmer Rouge) created a communal sharing government where currency was outlawed. In these fields the CPK worked/starved to death over a million Cambodians. With 70 percent of their food being exported for money for the government people were fed on a cup of rice or gruel per day. Also, anyone related to the former government, educated, or wealthy were killed off as they were discovered within these communal camps. The Khmer were the Cambodian proletariat class and it was through Pol Pots indoctrination of these people that he was able to gain control and install this radical form of gorvernment.
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Scott
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 2:19 am Post subject: |
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| GenrXr wrote: | | In these fields the CPK worked/starved to death over a million Cambodians. |
Good point, GenrXr, but it was closer to three million.
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Michmaddave
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 2:26 am Post subject: |
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| Scott wrote: | | GenrXr wrote: | | In these fields the CPK worked/starved to death over a million Cambodians. |
Good point, GenrXr, but it was closer to three million. |
Even more perspective would be to mention an entire Cambodian population of only about 7 million, meaning 40 percent of the population put to death. A minor point missed by the left.
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JimRobson
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Chris Matthews... read a book? That's a reach. Don't hold your breath.
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