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Frank, We lived in San Jose after the Vietnam war was over and were were inundated with boat people, those escaping across the China sea in little ramschacle, leaky boast to escape persecution by their new communist overseers. Our neighbor was a former Vietnamese colonel who escaped in the dead of night with his 4 very young children. His wife agreed to take their Down’s syndrome son separately and out a different route because he was noisy and disruptive, and she didn’t want to jeopardize the whole operation because they would all be executed. The father made it out with the children, but the wife and son were captured, and sent to re-education camps - which is like the gulag. In 1996, she was finally freed, and joined her family to live in our cul-de-sac along with the Down syndrome son, now a young adult. We saw the family reunion after a 15 year separation. There was much criticism of Congress that having removed our troops from Vietnam, then 2 years later pulled funding to keep the North Vietnamese from swarming over South Vietnam. We pulled funding. The communists/fascists swarmed killing millions. The US knew it was happening - and our US eaders folded their arms and looked away. That’s called genocide enabling. It’s not what they didn’t say- it’s what they didn’t do, deliberately, on-purpose, with full knowledge of the consequences. “The Real Victims of the Vietnam War In 1979 William Shawcross’ book Sideshow was published, subtitled “Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia,” esentially blaming the U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia for Pol Pot’s and the Khmer Rouge’s “killing fields” slaughter in Cambodia, which claimed the lives of between one and three million Cambodians after the U.S. withdrawal. Shawcross had been an outspoken critic of the U.S. war effort in Vietnam. Shawcross, however, is an intellectually honest man, and wrote “Remember: for Cambodia, read Iraq” last March for The UK Times: ‘…horror had engulfed all of Indo-China as a result of the US defeat in 1975…. Given the catastrophe of the communist victories, I have always thought that those like myself who were opposed to the American efforts in Indochina should be very humble…. I still believe the overthrow of Saddam Hussein was the correct thing to do - and it was something only the United States could have done. For all the horrors that extremist Sunnis and Shias are inflicting on each other today, the US rid the world of the Pol Pot of the Middle East. So long as the vile Saddam family regime remained in power there was no hope of progress in the region…. In Indo-China the majority of Western journalists (including myself) believed that the war could not or should not be won. Similarly today, for too many pundits hatred (and it really is that) of Bush and Blair dominates perceptions. Armchair editorialists love to dismiss the US effort in terms of Abu Ghraib or Haditha. [snip] If Iraq collapses, such nihilist killing will spread far wider. As in Cambodia, bloody mass murder is the only alternative to what the US-led coalition is trying to achieve.’ Fourteen years after 1975 and the Boat People and killing fields, De Palma made a fictional movie about American atrocities against the Vietnamese, and thirty two years later still invokes the anti-war mantras of the seventies, as though many millions had not suffered and died, brutally, because we didn’t prevail in Southeast Asia. Where was and is his concern for those people; where is his movie about that, those graphic images?” http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/09/when_the_left_cares_and_when_i.ht…