Cambodia: NIXON ILLEGAL BOMBING IN CAMBODIA [FR]

THE bombing of Vietcong in Cambodia, not only they killed Vietcong but also innocent Cambodian. Vietcong use this bombing plan to destroy Cambodia by moving it force deep inside Cambodia. You will know why there were so many Khmer Rouge force in the 17 April takes over of Phnom Penh. American policy how to destroy not the enemy but Cambodian.

Even after Richard Nixon's secret war in Cambodia became known, the president persisted in deception. "Publicly, we say one thing," he told aides. "Actually, we do another."

Newly declassified documents from the Nixon years shed light on the Vietnam War, the struggle with the Soviet Union for global influence and a president who tried not to let public and congressional opinion get in his way. The release Wednesday of some 50,000 pages by the National Archives means about half the national security files from the Nixon era now are public. On May 31, 1970, a month after Nixon went on TV to defend the previously secret U.S. bombings and troop movements in Cambodia, asserting that he would not let his nation become "a pitiful, helpless giant," the president met his top military and national security aides at the Western White House in San Clement, Calif. Revelation of the operation had sparked protests and congressional action against what many lawmakers from both parties considered an illegal war. Nixon noted that Americans believed the Cambodian operation was "all but over," even as 14,000 troops were engaged across the border in a hunt for North Vietnamese operating there. In a memo from the meeting marked "Eyes Only, Top Secret Sensitive," Nixon told his military men to continue doing what was necessary in Cambodia, but to say for public consumption that the United States was merely providing support to South Vietnamese forces when necessary to protect U.S. troops. "That is what we will say publicly," he asserted. "But now, let's talk about what we will actually do." He instructed: "I want you to put the air in there and not spare the horses. Do not withdraw for domestic reasons but only for military reasons." "We have taken all the heat on this one." He went on: "Just do it. Don't come back and ask permission each time." The military chiefs, more than their civilian bosses, expressed worry about how the war was going. "If the enemy is allowed to recover this time, we are through," said Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, the naval operations chief who two months later would become chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Nixon told his aides to plan offensive operations in neutral Laos, continue U.S. air operations in Cambodia and work on a summer offensive in South Vietnam. "We cannot sit here and let the enemy believe that Cambodia is our last gasp." The papers also are thick with minute aspects of Vietnam war-making and diplomacy. They show growing worries about the ability of the South Vietnamese government years before it fell, but also seek encouragement wherever it could be found. One May 1970 cable marked "For Confidential Eyes Only" provided national security adviser Henry Kissinger with an inventory of captured weapons, supplies and food. It noted, for example, that the 1,652.5 tons of rice seized so far would "feed over 6,000 enemy soldiers for a full year at the full ration."

In April, US President Nixon authorises the invasion of Cambodia by a joint US-South Vietnamese force of 30,000 troops. Tasked with destroying Vietnamese communist bases inside Cambodia, the force pushes the Vietnamese further into Cambodia but is otherwise ineffective and is forced to withdraw in June by the US Congress.

The Chinese clearly supported his position. The next day Chou En-lai complained about the bombing to a group of American Congressmen. When their leader, Senator Warren G. Magnuson of Washington, suggested that the Cambodians "be patient," Chou asked with obvious anger, "How can a man be patient when bombs are falling in his head?" He warned that although Sihanouk was a "peace-loving Buddhist," Washington was "forcing him to put himself into the battle."

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[anaminalwafdi]

USA could not exist without war - look his history. -naturaly in a name of peace...

[AhmekKhmer]

@anaminalwafdi, killing is their ways if business

[jackmol]

Nixon should be brought on trial for crime against humanity,...

[AhmekKhmer]

jackmol, not just Nixon but surely all American president in some kind of war crime around the world, the question is who would bring them in?

[mrjjmig]

@AhmekKhmer You don't have a clue.

[AhmekKhmer]

@mrjjmig

you have clue to tell me?

[poyner1134]

@jackmol Or Henry Kissinger

[jesse17ful]

my dad was in this war and he was sent by Nixon into Cambodia along with his unit

[PalemoonSun]

@bensommerMusic Oh, I get it, because the USA lost even worse in Nam than the French did, that makes it rather amusing. I suppose that is why the Swift Boat veterans group chairman has a regional headquarters for his company in Hanoi. Now yes, that is funny.

[DeRoquencourt]

SIHANOUK the BASTARD who gave legitimacy to the Khmers Rouges. The Khmer peasants rallied the Commies for Sihanouk. Sihanouk waged a deal with the Khmers Rouges and his name GREATLY favoured their coming to power. The french smelly leftist who issued this movie doesn't speak of this ESSENTIAL fact.

[DeRoquencourt]

An event can't be explained by a signle cause but rather by a chain of causes. One of them may be determinant. This politically correct movie hints that's american bombing triggered the seize of power by the Khmers Rouges. If this might have been one of the cause, this silly dishonnest french movie forget INTENTIONAlly the MAIN CAUSE:

[DeRoquencourt]

If somebodies are guilty of war crimes in the Vietnam war they ARE the COMMIES and thier accomplices , the smelly, longhaired leftists in the US.

[DeRoquencourt]

Unfortunately leftists bastards inside the USA made the politicians think they had lost the war in 1975 and brainless congress betrayed South Vietnam. Had the GREAT RICHARD NIXON stayed in power 1975 would have seen another crushing victory of the South Vietnam army thanks again by the huge fire power of the US Air Force... Dwarves unfortunately forced a great man to resign ....

[DeRoquencourt]

Richar Nixon was a very BRILLIANT statesman and a great doer of american foreign policies. He succeeded in Vietnamization as in the 1972 Easter offensive the Commy army was totally crushed by the joint South Vietnam Army and the US Air Force. Almost NO american died during the Easter Offensive and The South Vietnam Army needed ONLY the US Air Force fire Power : Strategic victories of An Loc , Kontum and Quang Tri

[DeRoquencourt]

NOTHING in this video charges Richrd Nixon of illegal actions, of illegal bombing... This video is VERY DISHONNEST as it charges the Americans of having triggered the Khmer Rouge genocide. It's always VERY EASY to make judgments once facts have already taken place ... But I remember the French leftists, the french commies celebrating the Khmer Rouges entry in Phnom Phen . These ugly fucking bastards are the ONLY responsible for the communist genocide in Cambodia

[DeRoquencourt]

No Nixon had the constitutional rights to have Cambodia bombed. the Empeachment commision could never show it was unconstitutional.

Bombing was LEGAL. More over Sihanouk was a bastard who let Commies reinforce Vietcong from both Sihanoukville port and the Ho Chi minh trail that run partly through Cambodia. the Vietcong the North Vietnamese Commies violated the borders of Cambodia but strangely nobody got angry about this ....