Two million Vietnamese fled their country after the US pulled support from the region. Thousands died at sea.
Senator James Webb (D-VA) blasted democrats for allowing the horrible genocide in southeast Asia after the US withdrew forces from the region!
The Corner reported the news today:
Glenn Reynolds has more genocide talk from James Webb....Finally, the aftermath of Saigon's fall is rarely dealt with at all. A gruesome holocaust took place in Cambodia, the likes of which had not been seen since World War II. Two million Vietnamese fled their country — usually by boat — with untold thousands losing their lives in the process. This was the first such diaspora in Vietnam's long and frequently tragic history. Inside Vietnam a million of the South's best young leaders were sent to re-education camps; more than 50,000 perished while imprisoned, and others remained captives for as long as 18 years. An apartheid system was put into place that punished those who had been loyal to the United States, as well as their families, in matters of education, employment and housing. The Soviet Union made Vietnam a client state until its own demise, pumping billions of dollars into the country and keeping extensive naval and air bases at Cam Ranh Bay.The author: James Webb, now a Democratic senator from Virginia. The article first appeared in the Wall Street Journal in April, 2000 and is now available on Webb's website.
How dare you take Jim Webbs own words out of context like that.You need to give him a chance to re-define what he meant by those statements.
ReplyDeleteThings said in the past are never meant to apply in the present. I'm sure that now he realizes that the war in VietNam and the ensuing genocide were all the fault of the U.S.
You got a lot of nerve using someone's own words.
The war in Iraq is only just like Vietnam when Ted Kennedy says so.
ReplyDeleteScrew Webb! ...
ReplyDeleteWebb is a witless whiner and a member of the party of the Seditious & Sleazy ...
Jim Webb used to be a respectable leader. His pursuit of the democrat party turned him into a clintonesque double talker.
ReplyDeleteBottom line. Webb served in Vietnam. I would take your thoughts on this issue more seriously if anyone in the present administration had done the same. It all come down to basic problem facing the right on these war issues. Your leaders have no credibility when it comes to war. They avoided real service. To a war vet like myself and Jim Webb--this lack of service can't be ignored. You can play at talking about this war, but where's the experience? I'm betting most of you "had better things to do."
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