Thanks jimmy...
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9879/jamesd.html
>>>>>With respect to the Cambodia issue, Chomsky is pointing out > how US
agit-prop and media take advantage of our lack of > certainty with respect
to the real numbers. Originally Chomsky lied about Cambodia, to deny the
crimes of the Khmer Rouge. He changed his tune after the Soviet Union
changed their tune. > Chomsky estimates that only 800,000 are verifiable
via > publically accessible documentation. Chomsky originally claimed
"thousands, not tens of thousands", a statement he attributed to "highly
qualified specialists" although the people he cited were too cautious to
make the claim he attributed to them. > As for the Cambodia issue, I think
the US government's > complicity in 'inadvertently' bringing the KR into
power is a > good precedent for what we're doing in the Middle East.
Originally, Chomsky claimed that the Khmer Rouge were rebuilding Cambodia,
that they were comparable to the french resistance, that the stories of
massacres had been repeatedly discovered to be false, and so on and so
forth. --digsig James A. Donald <<<<<
