US FOREIGN POLICY FLIP FLOP AS USUAL : between the Communist democrat party and the GOP from the Vietnam era to present day.
1.Feb. 28, 1955 .In a brief visit to Phnom Penh, State Secy. Dulles asks that the US be given responsibility for training the Cambodian army in exchange for US military aid. 2. May 11, 1970 US Senate Foreign Relations Committee approves an amendment introduced by Senator Sherman Cooper and Senator Frank Church to prevent any future US military operation in Cambodia. 3.May 21, 1970 US Defense Dept. reports that the Communist base COSVN has been relocated beyond the 21-mile operation limit in Cambodia set by Pres. Nixon. Dec. 22, 1970 The Cooper-Church amendment become law, prohibiting the use of authorized funds for sending American troops into Cambodia or for attaching American advisers to Cambodian forces. It proclaims that any assistance given by the US did not constitute a commitment by the US to the defense of Cambodia 4.Jan. 23, 1973 Pres. Nixon announces that Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho have initialed an agreement in Paris to end the Vietnam War. Duc Kaing Kek Iev, aka Duch, was arrested in 1999. According to the Morphology study on race and forensic data analysis ,Kaing Kek Iev, aka Duch is A VIETNAMESE. UN Passes Strong Resolution on Cambodia Human Rights Abuses Feb. 27, 1982 : UN Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva adopted a resolution condemning Vietnam's occupation of Cambodia as a violation of Cambodian human rights. The vote was 28 in favor, 8 against, and 5 abstentions. Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia. 100 TORTURE CENTERS across CAMBODIA. Vietnam's occupation of Cambodia 1979-1989 under Le Duc Tho rule. An estimated 460 000 innocent Cambodians died , killed , tortured, etc... 100 Torture centers were established across Cambodia. (Methods of torture described to Amnesty International). Methods of torture described to Amnesty International as being used by the Vietnamese forces of invasion and occupation of Cambodia under Le Duc Tho's rule, from 1979-1989, through the CPP/HUN SEN regime.( an estimated 460 000 innocent Cambodians died during that period) 1. Beatings with truncheons, sharp-edged wooden staves, and iron bars and whippings with chains and rubber hoses.( Methods of torture described to Amnesty International) 2. Near-suffocation with plastic bags,( Methods of torture described to Amnesty International) 3. Near-drowning in vats of water,( Methods of torture described to Amnesty International(Methods of torture described to Amnesty International) 4. Burial alive, and(Methods of torture described to Amnesty International) 5. Forced ingestion of irritant liquids have also been reported to the organization ( Amnesty International report) 6. Electric shocks .In addition, former prisoners have testified that their interrogators administered electric shocks,( Methods of torture described to Amnesty International) 7.Burned them with hot irons, and (Methods of torture described to Amnesty International) 8.Forced them into petrol drums, which were then covered and repeatedly struck from the outside. The high noise level causes pain and disorientation. (Methods of torture described to Amnesty International). FOR CAMBODIA ? Vietnam, has not respected the UN CHARTER, the Paris Peace agreement with the US . POLES: WE'VE BEEN SOLD TO THE RUSSIANS! Poles, Czechs: US missile defense shift a betrayal By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press Writer Vanessa Gera, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 30 mins ago WARSAW, Poland – Poles and Czechs voiced deep concern Friday at President Barack Obama's decision to scrap a Bush-era missile defense shield planned for their countries. "Betrayal! The U.S. sold us to Russia and stabbed us in the back," the Polish tabloid Fakt declared on its front page. Polish President Lech Kaczynski said he was concerned that Obama's new strategy leaves Poland in a dangerous "gray zone" between Western Europe and the old Soviet sphere. Recent events in the region have rattled nerves throughout central and eastern Europe, a region controlled by Moscow during the Cold War, including the war last summer between Russia and Georgia and ongoing efforts by Russia to regain influence in Ukraine. A Russian cutoff of gas to Ukraine last winter left many Europeans without heat. The Bush administration's plan would have been "a major step in preventing various disturbing trends in our region of the world," Kaczynski said in a guest editorial in the daily Fakt and also carried on his presidential Web site. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said he still sees a chance for Poles and Czechs to participate in the redesigned missile defense system. But that did not appear to calm nerves in Warsaw or Prague. Kaczynski expressed hopes that the U.S. will now offer Poland other forms of "strategic partnership." In Prague, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kohout said he made two concrete proposal to U.S. officials on Thursday in hopes of keeping the U.S.-Czech alliance strong: for the U.S. to establish a branch of West Point for NATO members in Central Europe and to "send a Czech scientist on the U.S. space shuttle to the international space station." An editorial in Hospodarske Novine, a respected pro-business Czech newspaper, said: "an ally we rely on has betrayed us, and exchanged us for its own, better relations with Russia, of which we are rightly afraid." The move has raised fears in the two nations they are being marginalized by Washington even as a resurgent Russia leaves them longing for added American protection. The Bush administration always said that the planned system — with a radar near Prague and interceptors in northern Poland — was meant as defense against Iran. But Poles and Czechs saw it as protection against Russia, and Moscow too considered a military installation in its backyard to be a threat. "No Radar. Russia won," the largest Czech daily, Mlada Fronta Dnes, declared in a front-page headline. Obama said the old plan was scrapped in part because the U.S. has concluded that Iran is less focused on developing the kind of long-range missiles for which the system was originally developed, making the building of an expensive new shield unnecessary. The replacement system is to link smaller radar systems with a network of sensors and missiles that could be deployed at sea or on land. Some of the weaponry and sensors are ready now, and the rest would be developed over the next 10 years. 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