BUSH Blames His Own Country For The Cambodian Genocide.

[kpete]

Pol Pot R Us

by digby

And here I thought it was the liberals who were the blame American firsters.


Mr Bush spoke of the massacres under Cambodia's Khmer Rouge,"The defence strategy that refused to hand the South Koreans over to a totalitarian neighbour helped raise up an Asian Tiger that is a model for developing countries across the world, including the Middle East."

Mr Bush compared current calls for withdrawal from Iraq with what happened at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.

"Many argued that if we pulled out, there would be no consequences for the Vietnamese people," Mr Bush said. "The world would learn just how costly these misimpressions would be.

"Three decades later, there is a legitimate debate about how we got into the Vietnam War and how we left.

"Whatever your position in that debate, one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America's withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens," Mr Bush said, mentioning reprisals against US allies in Vietnam, the displacement of Vietnamese refugees and the massacres in Cambodia under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6958824.stm

This is truly amazing. The president of the United States is actually blaming his own country for the Cambodian genocide. Even Normon Podhoretz and his creature Rudy Giuliani haven't had the nerve to make that argument. Old Norm was adamant that the Vietnam Syndrome had helped turn the US into a bunch of wimps, but he didn't actually blame the US for Pol Pot.

For the record, as I'm sure everyone knows, Pol Pot's rise was enabled by the US's war policies not by its withdrawal and it was the newly minted commies who ended the genocide so Bush is, as usual, talking gibberish.

more at:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/pol-pot-r-us-by-digby-and-here-i.html

[mr_hat]

1. He's not blaming his own country. He's blaming Dems

and the press and all the other peace-wimps. This isn't anything new to the loony right - they've bemoaned for years the deaths the left supposedly caused.

Humanitarians that they are.

[roamer65]

2. HL Mencken was right.

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

[BlooInBloo]

4. That's my sig!

[babylonsister]

3. "Pol Pot R Us" - I love her! But as another poster said, this is about Dems

as witnessed by the rethug attack machine orchestrated by Fleisher. I wonder how long it took them to find people to play into those ads, or how much it cost? $15M was spent to 'sway' anyone on the cusp.

[bluestateguy]

5. Nixon pulled out of Vietnam, not the Democrats

And he did so over a 4 and a half year timeline. The Democrats did not "cut" funding for the war until all US combat troops were out and Nixon and Ford were begging for more financial military aid to the South Vietnamese in 1974-75. At that point, the jig was up for South Vietnam anyway.

[The Count]

6. And let's not forget, this propaganda was "catapulted" by the departing Turd Blossom:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0807/5392.html
WACO, Texas — A day after announcing he will leave government Aug. 31, an unrepentant Karl Rove said Tuesday that Democrats are headed toward repeating Vietnam-era mistakes that gave Republicans the upper hand on national defense for 30 years
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ongressional efforts to oppose President Bush’s “surge” strategy have clear echoes of Democrats in the early 1970s who cut off support for U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, a war that was even more unpopular than Iraq. In Rove’s view, the nation wound up with its prestige diminished and its adversaries emboldened.

So, Nixon listened to democrats, and carter, Clinton's presidencies never happened...
Anyway, my point was, the turd still puts words in W's mouth...

[Avalux]

7. Bush was speaking to his base today, they're too dumb to know that.

Anyone with a knowledge of history and a brain knows that speech was completely ridiculous. It was directed at those among us who will support Bush no matter what he pulls out of his ass. Mind-numbing.

[Adsos Letter]

8. I heard outtakes of the speech on my way home from SSU...

...the idea of comparing the occupation of Iraq with the occupation of Japan or Germany after WWII...I thought my eyeballs were gonna' pop out of my head...has this man ever actually read a history book?

[Nite Owl]

9. If he thought it was such a terrible thing

he should have been there instead of falling on the floor drunk. I suppose next he will blame the liberals for that too, he would have gone if only the war hadn't ended!

[bklyncowgirl]

10. He should have fought in that war then, not spent it defending Dallas from a Viet Cong Invasion

That is when he bothered to show up for duty of course. He disgusts me.