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34 comments:
Right-on Sacrava you are telling our folks to consider what the yanks themselves always preach:
"There's nothing such as FREE LUNCH"
We can't just jump and hug this "Pitbull" it has a darkside!
Been-there-done-that
Hey idiot, the flag are all wrong. Today flag is not red and yellow stupid! That flag suppose to be on 1979-1991. Today flad is red, white, and blue with Angkorwat in the middle.
In retrospect, please re-examine these cases: the former accountant who was sentenced to life in prison, the grenade attacks, the turning blind eye to deplorable conditions of human rights violations by the Cambodian government, yet the US chose Cambodia as a host for the joint-military exercise. Also, why the sec. of state travels around the world to swiftly strike diplomatic ties around the world despite human rights violations in those countries. The US is after something, and the Chinese must be the principal of the concern. Sure, there are numerous specific strategic interests that the US is going after, in case the Chinese decides to make any drastic move. The real challenge will be the joint-military exercise with S. Korea and US in the yellow sea, and the Chinese does not like it a bit. I'm sure some of you recall the Korean conflict in the 1950s, and why the Chinese decided to join in the fight. As far I can see, there will be a lot of things will happen between now and the end of this year. Furthermore, all these military exercises in the yellow sea is a precusor to war. Remember, the N. Korean takes the upcoming military exercise as a tantamount to war. May gods help us.
American isnot like the China! to deal with america is dealt not only with the goverment but the people too!
Do not forget the US has just built Hun Xen and his son an Anti-Terrorist Center.
It is a power weapon in the hands of this criminal franchise to go on and eliminate all oppositions by just labelling them "terrorists" with the blessing of the USA.
Look out Khmers here come Uncle Sam determined to rout out local dissenters in the name of combatting internationalterrorism.
My govt deal with whoever is in charge , you idiot.We will deal with you if you're.
Yes your govt deal with whoever is in-charge, billions $ into the hole in Pakistan, Afganistan, Iraq, and has nothing to show for it. Not only that there are only murder and mayhem with no end in sight. All the big buck your govt spent came from the tax-paying people who are struggling to get by, many has no jobs, and many are living on the street.
What a great govt you are trying to sell to Khmers.
We are not trying to sell anything to your fucking khmer.You are begging us for help.
As for our war with the world terrorist.They started it on us first .we just try to finish it up.It's the war to win the heart and soul of the people and it's hard .If it were the fight between countries ,you can bet your fucking life on it ,we can whip their ass in about 2 weeks at the most. Every penny that was spend to finance the war was consented by our congress who represent the people , not like your fucking govt who are so willing to cede your fucking land to your neighbor in exchange for power.
You hate America because you are a communist .
4:25 AM
I am Khmer. Now, watch your fucking language, you fucking yankee.
Certainly, you have fucked too many countries all ready, fucked head.
4:25 AM
Hey, fucked head!
Yes, I dare you try with the Chinese.
Of course, you're afraid of the Chinese, and everyone knows it.
Perhaps, try the N. Korea first, just to get a good taste of what you'll get before tring with the Chinese.
The US has brought about the Chinese threat by its own doing. They made the Chinese super-rich and subseqently powerful, and now is trying to contain the fire.....LOL
By doing so americans have come around and dragged Southeast Asian countries into their orbit, ignoring all other consequences just like what they have done in Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia war which was part of the cold war in the 60's.
If they are truly serious about containing China influence:
Stop sending their own manufacturing to China.
Stop buying from Wal-Marts
Stop selling high-tech to China
Stop borrow money from the China
But Noooooooooo....
If they can sell Marlboro cigarettes and Cokes and make 10 Cents out of a Dollar, how much profit will they gain out of a billion-plus Chinese, do the math!
But when it comes to defending their turf some idiot like us can be enticed with pennies and dimes to bleed for them.
4:25am, your george bush mentality and typical arrogance got yourself hated all around the world. now obama is trying to sanitize that dirty image of yours, moron. as far as cambodia asks for your help, you are dead wrong. we ask for what are owed to us, cambodia and cambodians. remember the usa's hands are not so clean in the genecide. so get off your fucking high horse.
4:34AM,
Do i need to refresh your rusty memory. We defeated the great axis of evil of Italy,Germany and japan during WW2 .And in the 80s,we defeated the evil empire of soviet union a.k.a USSR without using a single bullet.And with CHINA ? ,it's just like a piece of cake.
9:37AM,
It's your own govt that committed crime to its own people .We, the U.S had made all kind of efforts to prevent it from happening.But your race is impossible to rescue no matter who is in charge.Every govt was corrupted to the bones .
As far as debt is concern ,you still owed us $3oo millions plus taxes from your previous govt regardless, because you're khmer .Just pay the due as a man
9:44am aka 4:25am, how convenient! you moron just left out your Vietnam war. you got out fought and wipped. as a consequence, you high tailed without looking back. moron
10:01am, the usa helped cambodia? my rear end. your
stinky ass has been exposed and you are shamelessly
trying to cover it up with a fig leave. as a matter of fact regarding that $300 mils, the usa should pay back with its dignity and sincere formal apology to the cambodian people. because the death of those million cambodians can not be put any price on.
10:09AM,
Dude ,whose country got bombed almost got back to the stone age? Is it vietnam or U.S? Go figure idiot?.Don't be fool like the Hezbullah of Lebanon whose country was badly destroyed by the Israelis and still proclaim victory .It's laughable.
Now back to Vietname once again.The U.S was not defeated by the Vietnam's ragtag armies you idiot. We respected our democracy where the new U.S administration decided to withdraw our armed forces.We still remain the most single super power on the planet .
We took SADDAM regime out in a matter of two weeks period.
And who are you? And why are you so against my country?.
10:27AM,
Just pay the due and it will be easy for you to beg some more.Nobody can forfeit the debt .The Russian won't do it.
You have to remember,it was your country under the leadership of prince Sihanouk who was so corrupted and SO cooperate with the communist that attack us in the South and still proclaim neutrality .Neutrality my ass.It was your stinky ass that get exposed to the world of been involve with the communist .While we were trying to curb the communist from spreading, your leader had made every efforts to help and facilitate them . And when the khmer rouge won the battle and started to annihilate your people ,you still blame us .Get a life .
bullshit, just accept your idiology war defeat in vietnam and move on. by the way, was there any wmd in iraq? NO. so george bush lied.
This dude must be an imposter, a hillbilly, or an illigal immigrant who had never seen a war or fire a shot in his life. That is why he is so boastful like a bullfrog. All he preaches here is what he has heard on TV or from Hollywood.
Real Americans are dissent and thoughtful people. It's their government that deserve criticism and bashing.
11:27AM and 11:41.You both must be Vietnamese or Taliban or muslim extremist sympathizers .Get the hell out of my country and go back to where you belong if you happen to be here in the U.S.
Neither a muslim, extremists, or anybody sympathizers, but just stating facts and giving valid points. You are not a good American but most likely a right wing terrorist, 2:27 pm.
Your kind is so typical when you can't and lose an argument. You begin to accuse people being a communist, muslim, extremist, terrorist, etc. But look at yourself, boasting of annihilating others for no other good reasons. So you better check yourself into Gitmo and join your brotherens there for the US of A's sake.
As for the logo it should have been designed to say:
6OTH YEAR OF BUYING, FLIP-FLOPPING, AND TRASHING FRIENDSHIP!
As for the $300 Millions so-called debt the US should come back and compensate every single collateral damage victim of the aerial bombardement, backfill every single bomb crater, and restore all Khmer forests anf farmlands inflicted by their agression first.
Just around the Neak Leung/Ba Phnom area alone this $300 millions (which is the approximate figure they spend in less than a month in Irag, Afganistan, and Pakistan combine) probably breaks even, not to mention other regions of Cambodia riddled with craters which are still visible from the air after 40 years.
10:01 AM
Hey, fucker, we'll pay all this money, but first we'd expect you to pay the Chinese first.
Fucked head, let us know why you finished paying your debt to the Chinese, and then we'll pay you the rest, fucked head.
7:34 PM
Thank you for hitting this fucking arrogant son of basterd's nail on the head.
7:34 PM
What you have pointd out are facts, and these fact are irrefutable proof. This fucker is another fucking white hilbility. Also, this kind of behavior clearly demonstrates the reason why the US lost the war to Vietnam and still losing to the current wars. I hope they have better attitude when they face N. Korea or China.
7:34 PM
What you have alluded purely based on irrefutable facts (not fiction). Again, thanks.
10:01 AM
Hey fucked head! We need your version of analysis and intepretation of this recent news.
Was it planned by the S. Korea and US in an effort to contain N. Korea and Burma.
What's your take on this? Sure, this is a dangerous game. Do you think this pretext should go on, you fucking asshole 10:01 AM fucked head?
Doubts surface on North Korea's role in ship sinking
Some in South Korea dispute the official version of events: that a North Korean torpedo ripped apart the Cheonan.
July 23, 2010|By Barbara Demick and John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Seoul — The way U.S. officials see it, there's little mystery behind the most notorious shipwreck in recent Korean history.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton calls the evidence "overwhelming" that the Cheonan, a South Korean warship that sank in March, was hit by a North Korean torpedo. Vice President Joe Biden has cited the South Korean-led panel investigating the sinking as a model of transparency.
But challenges to the official version of events are coming from an unlikely place: within South Korea.
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Armed with dossiers of their own scientific studies and bolstered by conspiracy theories, critics dispute the findings announced May 20 by South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, which pointed a finger at Pyongyang.
They also question why Lee made the announcement nearly two months after the ship's sinking, on the very day campaigning opened for fiercely contested local elections. Many accuse the conservative leader of using the deaths of 46 sailors to stir up anti-communist sentiment and sway the vote.
The critics, mostly but not all from the opposition, say it is unlikely that the impoverished North Korean regime could have pulled off a perfectly executed hit against a superior military power, sneaking a submarine into the area and slipping away without detection. They also wonder whether the evidence of a torpedo attack was misinterpreted, or even fabricated.
"I couldn't find the slightest sign of an explosion," said Shin Sang-chul, a former shipbuilding executive-turned-investigative journalist. "The sailors drowned to death. Their bodies were clean. We didn't even find dead fish in the sea."
Shin, who was appointed to the joint investigative panel by the opposition Democratic Party, inspected the damaged ship with other experts April 30. He was removed from the panel shortly afterward, he says, because he had voiced a contrary opinion: that the Cheonan hit ground in the shallow water off the Korean peninsula and then damaged its hull trying to get off a reef.
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"It was the equivalent of a simple traffic accident at sea," Shin said.
The Defense Ministry said in a statement that Shin was removed because of "limited expertise, a lack of objectivity and scientific logic," and that he was "intentionally creating public mistrust" in the investigation.
The doubts about the Cheonan have embarrassed the United States, which will s begin joint military exercises Sunday in a show of unity against North Korean aggression. On Friday, an angry North Korea warned that "there will be a physical response" to the maneuvers.
Two South Korean-born U.S. academics have joined the chorus of skepticism, holding a news conference this month in Tokyo to voice their suspicions about the "smoking gun:" a piece of torpedo propeller with a handwritten mark in blue ink reading "No. 1" in Korean.
"You could put that mark on an iPhone and claim it was manufactured in North Korea," scoffed one of the academics, Seunghun Lee, a professor of physics at the University of Virginia.
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Lee called the discovery of the propeller fragment five days before the government's news conference suspicious. The salvaged part had more corrosion than would have been expected after just 50 days in the water, yet the blue writing was surprisingly clear, he said.
"The government is lying when they said this was found underwater. I think this is something that was pulled out of a warehouse of old materials to show to the press," Lee said.
South Korean politicians say they've been left in the dark about the investigation.
"We asked for very basic information: interviews with surviving sailors, communication records, the reason the ship was out there," said Choi Moon-soon, an assemblyman with the Democratic Party.
The legislature also has not been allowed to see the full report by the investigative committee, only a five-page synopsis.
"I don't know why they haven't released the report. They are trying to cover up small inconsistencies, and that has cost them credibility," said Kim Chul-woo, a former Defense Ministry official who is now an analyst with the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, a government think tank.
A military oversight body, the Board of Inspection and Audit, has accused senior naval officers of lying and concealing information.
"Military officers deliberately left out or distorted key information in their report to senior officials and the public because they wanted to avoid being held to account for being unprepared," an official of the inspection board was quoted as telling the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo.
The Cheonan, a 1,200-ton corvette, sank the night of March 26 about 12 miles off North Korea. The first report issued by Yonhap, the official South Korean news agency, said the ship had been struck by a torpedo, but soon afterward the story changed to say the ship sank after being grounded on a reef.
The military repeated that version for days. The audit board found that sailors on a nearby vessel, the Sokcho, who fired off 35 shots with a 76-millimeter cannon around the time of the sinking, were instructed to say they'd been shooting at a flock of birds, even though at first they had said they'd seen a suspected submarine on radar.
On April 2, as Defense Minister Kim Tae-young was testifying before the National Assembly, a cameraman shooting over his right shoulder managed to capture an image of a handwritten note from the president's office instructing him not to talk about North Korean submarines.
Such inconsistencies and reversals have fueled the suspicions of government critics. U.S. officials, however, say the panel's conclusion is irrefutable.
Rear Adm. Thomas J. Eccles, the senior U.S. representative on the panel, said investigators considered all possibilities: a grounding, an internal explosion, a collision with a mine. But they quickly concluded that the boat was sunk by a bubble-jet torpedo, which exploded underneath the vessel and didn't leave the usual signs of an explosion, he said.
"The pattern of damage was exactly aligned with that kind of weapon," Eccles said in a telephone interview. "Torpedoes these days are designed to drive underneath the target and explode. They use the energy of their explosion to make a bubble that expands and contracts. It is designed to break the back of the ship."
Pyongyang, meanwhile, denies involvement in the sinking and calls the accusation against it a fabrication.
South Koreans themselves appear to be confused: Polls show that more than 20% of the public doesn't believe North Korea sank the Cheonan.
Wi Sung-lac, South Korea's top envoy for North Korean affairs, says the criticism from within has made it difficult to get China and Russia on board to punish Pyongyang for the attack.
"They say, 'But even in your own country, many people don't believe the result,' " Wi said.
Lee called the discovery of the propeller fragment five days before the government's news conference suspicious. The salvaged part had more corrosion than would have been expected after just 50 days in the water, yet the blue writing was surprisingly clear, he said.
"The government is lying when they said this was found underwater. I think this is something that was pulled out of a warehouse of old materials to show to the press," Lee said.
South Korean politicians say they've been left in the dark about the investigation.
"We asked for very basic information: interviews with surviving sailors, communication records, the reason the ship was out there," said Choi Moon-soon, an assemblyman with the Democratic Party.
The legislature also has not been allowed to see the full report by the investigative committee, only a five-page synopsis.
"I don't know why they haven't released the report. They are trying to cover up small inconsistencies, and that has cost them credibility," said Kim Chul-woo, a former Defense Ministry official who is now an analyst with the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, a government think tank.
A military oversight body, the Board of Inspection and Audit, has accused senior naval officers of lying and concealing information.
"Military officers deliberately left out or distorted key information in their report to senior officials and the public because they wanted to avoid being held to account for being unprepared," an official of the inspection board was quoted as telling the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo.
The Cheonan, a 1,200-ton corvette, sank the night of March 26 about 12 miles off North Korea. The first report issued by Yonhap, the official South Korean news agency, said the ship had been struck by a torpedo, but soon afterward the story changed to say the ship sank after being grounded on a reef.
The military repeated that version for days. The audit board found that sailors on a nearby vessel, the Sokcho, who fired off 35 shots with a 76-millimeter cannon around the time of the sinking, were instructed to say they'd been shooting at a flock of birds, even though at first they had said they'd seen a suspected submarine on radar.
On April 2, as Defense Minister Kim Tae-young was testifying before the National Assembly, a cameraman shooting over his right shoulder managed to capture an image of a handwritten note from the president's office instructing him not to talk about North Korean submarines.
Such inconsistencies and reversals have fueled the suspicions of government critics. U.S. officials, however, say the panel's conclusion is irrefutable.
Rear Adm. Thomas J. Eccles, the senior U.S. representative on the panel, said investigators considered all possibilities: a grounding, an internal explosion, a collision with a mine. But they quickly concluded that the boat was sunk by a bubble-jet torpedo, which exploded underneath the vessel and didn't leave the usual signs of an explosion, he said.
"The pattern of damage was exactly aligned with that kind of weapon," Eccles said in a telephone interview. "Torpedoes these days are designed to drive underneath the target and explode. They use the energy of their explosion to make a bubble that expands and contracts. It is designed to break the back of the ship."
Pyongyang, meanwhile, denies involvement in the sinking and calls the accusation against it a fabrication.
South Koreans themselves appear to be confused: Polls show that more than 20% of the public doesn't believe North Korea sank the Cheonan.
Wi Sung-lac, South Korea's top envoy for North Korean affairs, says the criticism from within has made it difficult to get China and Russia on board to punish Pyongyang for the attack.
"They say, 'But even in your own country, many people don't believe the result,' " Wi said.
Lee called the discovery of the propeller fragment five days before the government's news conference suspicious. The salvaged part had more corrosion than would have been expected after just 50 days in the water, yet the blue writing was surprisingly clear, he said.
"The government is lying when they said this was found underwater. I think this is something that was pulled out of a warehouse of old materials to show to the press," Lee said.
South Korean politicians say they've been left in the dark about the investigation.
"We asked for very basic information: interviews with surviving sailors, communication records, the reason the ship was out there," said Choi Moon-soon, an assemblyman with the Democratic Party.
The legislature also has not been allowed to see the full report by the investigative committee, only a five-page synopsis.
"I don't know why they haven't released the report. They are trying to cover up small inconsistencies, and that has cost them credibility," said Kim Chul-woo, a former Defense Ministry official who is now an analyst with the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, a government think tank.
A military oversight body, the Board of Inspection and Audit, has accused senior naval officers of lying and concealing information.
"Military officers deliberately left out or distorted key information in their report to senior officials and the public because they wanted to avoid being held to account for being unprepared," an official of the inspection board was quoted as telling the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo.
The Cheonan, a 1,200-ton corvette, sank the night of March 26 about 12 miles off North Korea. The first report issued by Yonhap, the official South Korean news agency, said the ship had been struck by a torpedo, but soon afterward the story changed to say the ship sank after being grounded on a reef.
The military repeated that version for days. The audit board found that sailors on a nearby vessel, the Sokcho, who fired off 35 shots with a 76-millimeter cannon around the time of the sinking, were instructed to say they'd been shooting at a flock of birds, even though at first they had said they'd seen a suspected submarine on radar.
On April 2, as Defense Minister Kim Tae-young was testifying before the National Assembly, a cameraman shooting over his right shoulder managed to capture an image of a handwritten note from the president's office instructing him not to talk about North Korean submarines.
Such inconsistencies and reversals have fueled the suspicions of government critics. U.S. officials, however, say the panel's conclusion is irrefutable.
Rear Adm. Thomas J. Eccles, the senior U.S. representative on the panel, said investigators considered all possibilities: a grounding, an internal explosion, a collision with a mine. But they quickly concluded that the boat was sunk by a bubble-jet torpedo, which exploded underneath the vessel and didn't leave the usual signs of an explosion, he said.
"The pattern of damage was exactly aligned with that kind of weapon," Eccles said in a telephone interview. "Torpedoes these days are designed to drive underneath the target and explode. They use the energy of their explosion to make a bubble that expands and contracts. It is designed to break the back of the ship."
Pyongyang, meanwhile, denies involvement in the sinking and calls the accusation against it a fabrication.
South Koreans themselves appear to be confused: Polls show that more than 20% of the public doesn't believe North Korea sank the Cheonan.
Wi Sung-lac, South Korea's top envoy for North Korean affairs, says the criticism from within has made it difficult to get China and Russia on board to punish Pyongyang for the attack.
"They say, 'But even in your own country, many people don't believe the result,' " Wi said.
Sorry for the duplicate
While we're on the subject of the US carpet bombing in Cambodia, don't forget the "agent orange" in Vietnam. Danang is the most concentrated agent orange, because that was the US base (launchpad).
You fucked head, 10:01 AM, your wife a cheap whore. You should share her among your friends.
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