Bombing Cambodia - Nixon, Kissinger, and the Khmer Rouge - 2

Journalist John Pilger explains the how the United States bombing of Cambodia contributed to the rise of the Khmer Rouge.

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• Kissinger
• Vietnam
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• bombing
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[UlucReis]

Henry Kissinger received the Nobel Prize for Peace??? WTF??? Is it an April 1st Joke or a parody from MAD TV or what?

If so then my next candidate for 2008 Nobel Peace Prize is Ariel Sharon, for 2009 is George W. Bush Jr. and for 2010 is Radovan Karadzic. "Thank you for your cooperation."

[Lo2lo2Nada]

"A base that existed only in the imagination of American Generals" ...well this is just like the excuse about all the massive destruction arms in Irak isn't it? Let's see what excuse they'll find now to start bombing somewhere else now that they have almost finished with Irak..

[LadyboyAgogo]

who havnt the fucked up US bombed ?

[creativeengineer]

@poortogee77 As your country is disintegrating under the weight of greed, moral corruption and laziness, just think about your words God Bless America means.You too have been brainwashed the same way the Chinese have been brainwashed about their evil leader Mao Zedong and the facade of communism.

[creativeengineer]

A decent American would go and remove the bombs their countrymen planted for little children to be blown to bits. But their so-called Christian, Jew and Muslim hypocrites alike turn a blind eye to the whole hell on earth they created. George W. Bush said he was a Christian. The truth is he is one of the sons of satan.

[southamptonbythesea]

I wouldn't want to admit that my country was capable of this either but the evidence is out there now.

[poortogee77]

LET ME GUESS ALL THESE COMMENTS ARE FROM EITHER NON-AMERICANS,OR ANGRY WAR PROTESTERS WHO WOULD LOVE NOTHING LESS THAN THE US BE WIPED OFF THE EARTH,WELL IT IS'NT GONNA HAPPEN ,OK YOU BASTERDS!!!!GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!

[bensommerMusic]

Love when GIs write neat little illiterate messages on their bombs & missles. That's a mature thing to do.

[Gorbachenko]

This dope smoking poufter is full of shit...

[goodygumdr0ps]

what-a-crock-of-shit is this "journalism."

really, most don't even know what is going on in these countries now, let alone then.

[EkajTheSwordsman]

In their 1993 study, modelling “the highest mortality [they] can justify,” Judith Banister and Paige Johnson estimated 275,000 deaths during the 1970-1975 period. Marek Sliwinski carried out a demographic study where he arrives at an estimate of 240,000 war deaths out of which there were 40,000 deaths as a result of American bombings. As Pol Pot’s biographer David Chandler points out, the bombing campaign “had the effect the Americans wanted: it broke the Communist encirclement of Phnom Penh."

[t4705mb6]

Those who "win" major world awards & prizes are now always chosen in closed private rooms of castles & sprawling mansions by the world's wealthy elite. Phone calls are made, meetings are held. The reason for their choices always smells like a crab shack dumpster on a Monday morning after a 3 day holiday weekend. Criminal cronies & henchmen are are often "paid" for services, a bonus, with these awards. Kissinger killed millions. Obama got his "peace" prize after escalating the Afghanistan war.