Senator Kerry: There Was No Bloodbath After We Withdrew From Vietnam
Of course, John Kerry and the rest of his fellow anti-war radicals of the time were a big force behind our withdrawal from Vietnam, so of course he’s going to deny responsibility for the bloodbath which followed that retreat:
You gotta love how he talks of the victims of the communist “re-education camp” as thriving members of Vietnam’s society today. As though that re-education camp were a summer camp where they learned how to weave baskets and went skinny-dipping when the counselors weren’t around. Of course, Wikipedia tells a different story:
The last official American military action in South East Asia occurred on 15 May 1975. Forty-one U.S. military personnel were killed when the Khmer Rouge seized a U.S. merchant ship, the SS Mayagüez. The episode became known as the Mayagüez incident.
The Pathet Lao overthrew the royalist government of Laos in December, 1975. They established the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
Hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese officials, particularly ARVN officers, were imprisoned in reeducation camps after the Communist takeover. Tens of thousands died and many fled the country after being released. Up to two million civilians left the country, and as many as half of these boat people perished at sea.
Tens of thousands dead in the re-education camps and millions fleeing the country with about a 50% survival rate.
More:
The number of inmates and death figures at the various camps are unclear due to the secrecy of the Vietnamese government. Crude estimates range from 500 000 to over 2 million inmates. Estimated death figures due to diseases, starvation, execution and working accidents range from tens of thousands to over 100 000 dead.
We’d know better about the victims of these re-education camps if the Vietnamese communists, like most socialists, weren’t busy covering up the atrocities and inefficiencies of their regime. But the point is: A bloodbath did ensue in Vietnam after we gave up and abandoned the country, and Senator Kerry (much like the communists) is trying to cover it up for political expediency.
At least Senator Obama, one of Kerry’s Democrat colleagues, has the honesty to admit that his preferred foreign policy will result in genocide and that he doesn’t much care.
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