US PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN INSISTS ON CAMBODIA INDPENDENCE. 1988
President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United Nations General
Assembly in New York, New York . September 26, 1988.
"Mr. Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose
freedom and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and
independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops
...."
"Prime Minister Pham Van Dong called on me and, in the presence of Premier Chou
En-lai, swore in the name of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam that the latter
would always respect the land frontiers as well as all islands belonging to the
"Kingdom of Cambodia" March 1970 by Sihanouk . Wilfred Burchett book "The China
Cambodia Vietnam triangle " P-176-177
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.
5. 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.
As of today,Cambodia is still occupied by the Vietnamese troops despite the
call from the US president to Vietnam to cease her occupation of Cambodia since
1988.
Cambodia needs Independence from Vietnam and the Vietnamese invaders.
Vietnam must cease her occupation of Cambodia at once.
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On April 28, 1984, Deng Xiaoping, Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, meets U.S. President Ronald
Reagan in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Photo: fmprc.gov.cn)
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RUSH: Here's Obama, another summit, more breakout groups.
OBAMA: Illicit trafficking and smuggling. That would be our focus this
morning. We have the opportunity to strengthen the International Atomic Energy
Agency, the IAEA, with the resources and authorities it needs to meet its
responsibilities. That will be our focus at our working lunch. We have the
opportunity as an international community to deepen our cooperation and to
strengthen the institutions and partnerships that help prevent nuclear
materials from ever falling into the hands of terrorists. And that will be our
focus this afternoon.
RUSH: They already have "fallen into the hands of terrorists." What the hell
is Iran? What the hell is North Korea? Terrorists already have access to
nuclear materials. This is Obama again presiding over America's decline:
Sitting there, discussing strengthening everybody else but weakening the United
States, which is what this is really all about. And they actually had a
breakthrough. Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yahoo!
OBAMA: I am so pleased to announce that President Lee has agreed to host the
next nuclear summit in the Republic of Korea in two years.
RUSH: Wow! Oh man, oh man they had a success yesterday, folks! They're going
to have another summit in two years in South Korea. Katie Couric could barely
bottle her enthusiasm.
COURIC: Tonight, saving the world! Leaders from all over the globe come to
Washington with one goal: Keeping terrorists from getting their hands on
nuclear weapons.
RUSH: "Saving the world." Terrorists already have nuclear weapons, or soon
will have: i.e, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. That's why we're cutting missile
defense, right? We're cutting missile defense because Iran's soon to be nuke.
We're cutting missile defense. We are weakening the United States. We are
trying to show them our moral leadership, that we can lead the world in
disarmament. And, of course, moral leadership is not what works with
terrorists or any other type of bad guy. Here's Anderson Cooper last night.
COOPER: President Obama kicking off nuclear security summit at the White
House. Forty-seven nations participating. His effort is a lot like former
President Reagan. So why are so many Republicans criticizing him?
RUSH: This is why so many people don't watch Anderson Cooper. "His effort is
a lot like former President Reagan. So why are so many Republicans criticizing
him?" because Reagan's name is being taken in vain here. This is absolutely no
similarity whatsoever in Obama and Reagan. This is Carter! If you want to
have any similarity, this is Carter and the way he would approach things and
did approach things. Obama is simply the second term of Jimmy Carter. These
people figure it out. Even people on our side say, "The era of Reagan is
over." Our people running around, "We can't use Reagan's policies anymore,
Rush! We need to modernize! The era of Reagan is over." I mean, we have all
kinds of prominent conservatives in and out of our media say that. Yet the
left invokes Reagan any time they want to give credibility to one of their own
in virtually anything. Well, let's go back to March 23rd, 1983 at the White
House. President Reagan addressing the nation live about defense and national
security. You tell me if this sounds anything like Obama.
REAGAN 1983: Since the dawn of the atomic age, we've sought to reduce the
risk of war by maintaining a strong deterrent and by seeking genuine arms
control. Deterrence means simply this: Making sure any adversary who thinks
about attacking the United States or our allies or our vital interests
concludes that the risks to him outweigh any potential gains. Once he
understands that, he won't attack. We maintain the peace through our strength.
Weakness only invites aggression. This strategy of deterrence has not
changed. It still works.
RUSH: And we're in the process of changing it. We're getting rid of our
defenses, we're paring them back, and yet they want to say that Obama is doing
exactly what Reagan did? It couldn't be further apart. Here's more from the
same national address, March 23rd, 1983, from the White House.
REAGAN 1983: I know that all of you want peace, and so do I. I know, too,
that many of you seriously believe that a nuclear freeze would further the
cause of peace. But a freeze now would make us less, not more secure -- and
would raise, not reduce, the risks of war. It would be largely unverifiable
and would seriously undercut our negotiations on arms reduction. It would
reward the Soviets for their massive military buildup while preventing us from
modernizing our aging and increasingly vulnerable forces. With their present
margin of superiority, why should they agree to arms reductions knowing that we
were prohibited from catching up?
RUSH: Now, you tell me this sounds like Barack Obama? Barack Obama is the
antithesis of Ronald Reagan in virtually any way you can imagine -- and you
people in the media need to be ashamed of yourselves or worse. This template,
this narrative out there that Obama is simply doing what Reagan's doing and why
are we not happy about it? You impugn the memory of Ronald Reagan when you
associate anything this little man-child, five-minute career, inexperienced,
community organizer does and compare that to anything Ronald Reagan did or
wanted to do. It is an embarrassment and you're not fooling anybody who was
alive during the eighties and knows full well what Ronald Reagan was all about.
It still amazes me that you people who despise Reagan to this day feel the
need to revive him to give your little president some sort of credibility he
has not earned.
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RUSH: By the way, ladies and gentlemen, you just heard the sound bite of
President Reagan in 1983, a national address to the country, suggesting he was
opposed to the nuclear freeze. The one thing that we have been allowed to see
that Obama wrote in college while at Columbia was an article supporting the
nuclear freeze. I have it right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers,
and these clowns in the discredited government-run media have the audacity to
try to say that Reagan and Obama are oriented toward the same thing, and, "We
have a great breakout! Yes, we're going to have another nuke summit in South
Korea in two years." President Obama, when we have a summit in North Korea,
that is when North Korea is gone, that will be success. You see, Barack, you
like people to compare to you Reagan -- even though you hated Reagan and his
domestic policies, and you wrote about that, and you spoke about it.
Reagan destroyed the Soviet Union. You are reestablishing the Soviet Union,
Obama. Reagan put missiles in West Berlin or Western Europe, and Obama put our
missiles in the dustbin! There is no comparison whatsoever. Reagan would have
been focused on destroying our enemies, not coddling them -- and certainly not
apologizing to them for his own country. Now, we've had Republicans, as I said
moments ago, say that the era of Reagan is over, and we have liberals now
saying that Obama is Reagan. Let me be clear about this. The era of Reagan is
never over because the era of liberty and security and capitalism is never
over. Reaganism is simply constitutional freedom. Freedom will never go out
of style. Reagan and his era will never be over. As for Obama, one day he's
said to be Lincoln, one day he's said to be FDR, one day he is said to be
Reagan. This is said to build up Obama for he has no significant
accomplishments of his own. Zip, zero, nada. You guys on the left, doesn't it
bother you at all that your guy has to be compared to Ronald Reagan so he
appears to have some chops, some cred, some street cred? Obama is Obama. He
is not FDR, he is not Lincoln, he's not Reagan. Obama is Obama, which means
Obama is a failure. He will always be a failure because Obama does not learn
from experience, from evidence, or from history. He has his agenda. He's
hell-bent on pushing it. He is presiding over the decline of the United States
of America, and he is doing so happily and purposefully. One more sound bite
from President Reagan, March 23, 1983 from the White House.
REAGAN 1983: The calls for cutting back the defense budget come in nice,
simple arithmetic. They're the same kind of talk that led the democracies to
neglect their defenses in the 1930s and invited the tragedy of World War II.
We must not let that grim chapter of history repeat itself through apathy or
neglect. We will send a signal of decline, of lessened will, to friends and
adversaries alike. Free people must -- voluntarily, through open debate and
democratic means -- meet the challenge that totalitarians pose by compulsion.
It's up to us, in our time, to choose and choose wisely between the hard but
necessary task of preserving peace and freedom and the temptation to ignore our
duty and blindly hope for the best while the enemies of freedom grow stronger
day by day.
RUSH: And now that freedom's enemies are growing stronger day by day, aided
and abetted by President Obama. So I don't want to hear it anymore. I don't
want to hear little nitwits like Anderson Cooper or whoever else in
government-run media, wonder why Republicans are upset when Obama is just
continuing the work of Ronald Reagan. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Obama is simply pursuing the agenda that he has had since he was an undergrad
at Columbia University. The one article that he's written that we have been
allowed to see is when he supports and makes the case for a nuclear freeze. We
have a recent poll from Carville and Greenberg which -- which said that Obama
needed to be tougher on terrorism.
Right, so this is how he does it. He pretends that disarming is how we're
going to beat the terrorists. We're disarming! We're taking down missile
defenses, we're reducing our own stockpiles, and that's how we're going to beat
the terrorists. Somebody wants to tell me that that has any resemblance
whatsoever to Ronaldus Magnus? Obama tries to talk tough but he can't even
pull that off. He's talking tough while whittling away our big stick, on
purpose. A man who is doing what Obama is doing in the area of national
security and nuclear defense and so forth, would only be doing it if he thought
(and thinks) that the problem in the world is the United States. There is no
other explanation for this.
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Read the Background Material...
• American Thinker: Reagan and Obama; a Difference of Epic Proportions
• Heritage Foundation: Obama is No Reagan on Nuclear Strategy
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