US ending air invasion/support in libya

They told me if I voted for John McCain, it would be 4 more years of Bush policy and we'd be in wars all across the middle east!
........damn if they weren't right!
 
Dixie said:
Ah, so actually, Henry Kissinger never ordered bombs to be dropped. Thanks for admitting the truth and providing proof to back it up. Well done!
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No, he never signed the order because he wasn't the president but he conceived it and persuaded Nixon accordingly. Tom Lehrer gave up performing after hearing that Kissinger has got the Peace Prize.

Henry Kissinger, Nixon’s assistant for National Security Affairs, convinces the president to begin a secret bombing campaign in Cambodia where Viet Cong and North Vietnamese have established logistical bases. The campaign, secretly referred to as “Operation Breakfast,” spurs the Vietnamese to move deeper into Cambodia causing US bombings to move further into the country’s interior. As in Laos (see 1969-1973), the US drops an incredible number of bombs on civilian areas. [Los Angeles Times, 7/8/1997] Craig Etcheson will later write in his book, The Rise and Demise of Democratic Kampuchea: “The fact is that the United States dropped three times the quantity of explosives on Cambodia between 1970 and 1973 than it had dropped on Japan for the duration of World War II. Between 1969 and 1973, 539,129 tons of high explosives rained down on Cambodia; that is more than one billion pounds. This is equivalent to some 15,400 pounds of explosives for every square mile of Cambodian territory. Considering that probably less than 25 percent of the total area of Cambodia was bombed at one time or another, the actual explosive force per area would be at least four times this level.”
 
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Your opinion piece link to the LAtimes did not work...


"The campaign was called "Operation Breakfast", and while it may sound like the
Central Intelligence Agency's present air campaign over Pakistan, it wasn't. You
need to turn the clock back to another American war, four decades earlier, to
March 18, 1969, to be exact. The target was an area of Cambodia known as the
Fish Hook that jutted into South Vietnam, and Operation Breakfast would be but
the first of dozens of top secret bombing raids. Later ones were named "Lunch",
"Snack" and "Supper" and they went under the collective label "Menu". They were
authorized by president Richard Nixon and were meant to destroy a (non-existent)
"Bamboo Pentagon", a central headquarters in the Cambodian borderlands where
North Vietnamese communists were supposedly orchestrating raids deep into South
Vietnam."

So again, Tom, Dixie was correct and you were/are not
 
Great, you're having an argument about which American President with a Nobel Peace Prize in his back pocket, has killed a fuck load of people compared with all the other Nobel Prize winners and, i have to admit, Obama wins it hands down.

However, does anyone want to cite Obama and compare the numbers of civilians killed, or the total numbers of people killed, in a massive superannuated combined death toll taking into account all American Presidents?

That would make interesting reading.
 
charver said:
Great, you're having an argument about which American President with a Nobel Peace Prize in his back pocket, has killed a fuck load of people compared with all the other Nobel Prize winners and, i have to admit, Obama wins it hands down.

However, does anyone want to cite Obama and compare the numbers of civilians killed, or the total numbers of people killed, in a massive superannuated combined death toll taking into account all American Presidents?

That would make interesting reading.
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You really know how to make everyone look like an asshole don't you Charver?

That's why I love you.
 
King of Proles said:
You really know how to make everyone look like an asshole don't you Charver?

That's why I love you.
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One day we shall buy countless rounds of beers, embrace, call each other 'brother' and lace daisies into each other hair.

More likely the first part though. ;)
 
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