Joey
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Re: The New and Improved Joey? thread
Reply #13635 - Jan 20th, 2015 at 9:16am
" And there was another Southeast Asia mess : Cambodia . As late as 1970 Nixon's excuse for dropping bombs on the neutral nation had been that it was necessary to protect the retreat of American ground forces from South Vietnam . But now it was April 1973 , the boys were back home , and B-52's were still dropping 24,000 tons a month . Secretary of State William Rogers told Congress it ' was justified because the continued presence of North Vietnamese troops in Cambodia threatened the right of self - determination in Vietnam . ' That was surreal , considering that the Paris Peace Accords we had just signed allowed 145,000 North Vietnamese Troops to garrison inside South Vietnam . Another excuse arose : Communist communications lines in the countryside had to be intercepted . So why , the suspicious circles asked , were bombs falling on the country's most heavily populated areas ? " !!!!!!!!!!
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