The stuff we don't teach in history class

[NNN0LHI]

Everyone in the world knew we were bombing Cambodia but the American people. Think about that for a minute. How could that be? And this is while we were living in a democracy with a free press. That is kind of unbelievable.


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The History that both America and China have forgotten: Vietnam

Wednesday, November 24, 2010


….Nixon and Kissinger had secretly approved an invasion in 1969 and the carpet-bombing of Cambodia, in the ruthless and irrational belief that it would help win the Vietnam War. For the next several years, without any authorisation from Congress, B-52s from Gaum flew thousands of bombing missions….the bombing created havoc in Cambodia, killing an estimated 600,000 people and driving the peasants into joining the Khmer Rouge….

The killing field(s)…was locally known as Choeung Ek, It was one of many. There were 343 other killing sites spread across Cambodia and numerous torture prisons too, from the Khmer Rouge period, 1974-1979. By then the United States was tacitly supporting the Khmer Rouge government, because of our humiliation at having been driven out of Vietnam. By allowing the Chinese to arm Pol Pot, we could hobble the Vietnamese, who were fighting the Khmer Rouge with Soviet artillery along the Cambodian-Vietnam border….

In this peaceful place…twenty thousand people were murdered over the course of three years….They were clerks, teachers, landlords – education was equated with wealth (“such people oppressed the poor”)….A sign on one tree said “The killing tree against which executioners beat children”- and it explained that these children, the offspring of the despised privileged class of doctors, lawyers, and teachers, were swung by their heels and their skulls smashed against the tress….

Pol Pot was undone by the invading Vietnamese…in 1979. In the same year…the United States supported the right to a seat for the exiled Pol Pot’s blood-soaked delegation to the United Nations…..

[notesdev]

1. It's not just in history class

It's our media acting as organs of the government, not telling us what .gov doesn't want us to know, even when everyone else in the world knows it.

Hasn't Wikileaks demonstrated this conclusively? Everyone else on the planet is getting far more detail about what our government has been doing than our media organizations are providing to us. It's only the underground media that is taking that story seriously.

[w8liftinglady]

2. My partner and dad were NOT in Cambodia during the Vietnam war.

It always haunted my dad-what happened to innocent families over there,as he was in intelligence.

[unhappycamper]

3. Unfortunately, I was.

:(

[NNN0LHI]

5. I believe you were there but I bet there is no mention of that in your official service record

I think that is what w8liftinglady was trying to say about her partner and dad?

They weren't there officially but they were both there. That is what I think she was trying to say anyway? I may be wrong?

Don

[leftstreet]

4. K&R