--- In [email protected], "steven  linnabary" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Perhaps if Nixon hadn't supported (with crushing military aid that 
was used
> much like the North Koreans use theirs against their own citizens) 
the hated
> Prince Sihanouk (sp), Pol Pot wouldn't have been able to rally the 
people to
> his cause.
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Actually Steven, Nixon pulled support of Sihanouk in 1970 and 
assisted his overthrow by Lon Nol in March of that year. Until the 
invasion of Cambodia by 150,000 US and South Vietnamese troops a 
month later, the Khmer Rouge were active only in the eastern 
provinces - and even there had little support. The invasion drove 
them throughout the country and increased their ranks from a few 
thousand to several tens of thousands in just a short time.

I suppose Eric owes a debt of thanks to the Vietnamese communists for 
invading Cambodia and engaging in "regime change" against the Khmer 
Rouge in 1979.




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