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Ernie, your research?????????, my research, below.......


by Michael Dickey

1 million South Vietnamese residents took flight in make shift rafts into the South China Sea fearing the communist invaders. Most of them drowned. An additional 1 million South Vietnamese residents were executed. I would like to see these 1.6 million names added to the Vietnam memorial. Neighboring Cambodia fared much worse.

The Khmer rouge under the loose rule of Pol Pot took power with support from the North Vietnamese armies and supplies from the Soviet Union, easily defeating the pro western Lon Nol, who now had no support from the US thanks to the US congress decision to end aide in a bill submitted by and approved by the democraticly controlled congress, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn) said we should 'not intervene'. Cambodians "need peace, not guns" was the pacifist rallying cry. Unfortunately what they actually needed was guns.