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Old 05-04-2008
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Re: Democrats and the Killing Fields

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Originally Posted by jviehe View Post
The answer is of course no. If the US had mantained its presence, the Khemer Rouge would not have been able to exert its power.
That wasn't the question. The question was whether the Khmer Rouge would even have existed absent U.S. intervention. In other words, if there had never been a U.S. presence to maintain, not if it had been maintained.
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