Lying for Empire/ With a Straight Face! / Nixon, Kissinger & Bombing of Cambodia!

[KoKo]

(ON TO IRAN...According to the Neo-Cons...because our Security is at RISK and IRAQ will EXPAND OUT OF THE BOUNDARIES AND THREATEN OUR INTERESTS!)

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Lying for Empire/President Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and the Bombing of Cambodia
excerpted from the book
How to Commit War Crimes With A Straight Face
by David Model


The United States, apprehensive about Southeast Asia becoming part of the Soviet sphere of influence, were willing to commit whatever resources were needed to incorporate it into the American Empire. American military leaders believed that Cambodian territory was providing a transportation route from North to South Vietnam and a haven where North Vietnam established its headquarters. Despite the fact that in the 1960s and early 1970s, Cambodia was safely in the American camp, its use by North Vietnam was becoming a problem.
Not only did Nixon and Kissinger not seek the necessary approval from Congress to bomb Cambodia, they tried to conceal the bombing not only from the American public but Congress as well. Nixon and Kissinger believed that these hideous lies were imperative to hold on to South Vietnam as part of the American Empire..
Following the bombing, many peasants were so outraged at the United States and their puppet leader in Cambodia that they chose to join the Khmer Rouge, a marginal revolutionary communist group whose ranks swelled to a major force. After taking power, the Khmer Rouge unleashed a reign of terror killing over one million people.

More at..........

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[Rebellious Republican]

1. Excelent post KoKo01, this is exactly why I keep asking everyone to

call this an escalation, not a surge! The term escalate brings back all those memories for many. This is exactly why the GOP and the MSM want to soften the debate with the term "surge".
Call it what it is...

escalate
2 entries found for escalate.

Main Entry: es·ca·late
Pronunciation: 'es-k&-"lAt, ÷-ky&-
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -lat·ed; -lat·ing
Etymology: back-formation from escalator
intransitive verb : to increase in extent, volume, number, amount, intensity, or scope <a little war threatens to escalate into a huge ugly one -- Arnold Abrams>
transitive verb : EXPAND 2
- es·ca·la·tion /"es-k&-'lA-sh&n, ÷-ky&-/ noun
- es·ca·la·to·ry /'es-k&-l&-"tor-E, ÷-ky&-/ adjective

As per Merriam-Webster Online.