Sunday, August 26, 2007

The Daily Flashback

...Killing Fields edition.

Lies, Lies, and More Lies, in History-Illiterate America - The Smirking Chimp:

"George Bush -- and other Iraq War supporters -- have argued that if we withdraw from Iraq the result will be like the slaughters -- the killing fields -in Cambodia.

Here are the facts:

  • The killing fields were real. The genocide against their own people was committed by the Khmer Rouge.
  • The Vietnamese -- the Communist Vietnamese -- were the people who went in and put a stop to it.
  • The United States then supported the Khmer Rouge.

Here's how that came to happen..."

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