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This might be another nail in the Cambodia coffin: how often, other than the 1986 Senate statement, did the "5 miles inside Cambodia" claim include encounters with some Khmer Rouge?

Apparently there were only 3,000 Khmer Rouge soldiers in 1970 (at the takeover; increasing to 50,000 by late 1972). In 1969 they were set up to put pressure on the government in Phnom Penh, the capital. So they wouldn't be hanging around the Cambodia-Vietnam border.

p>At least Kerry has not fabricated his own name. br> -- unsigned /p> p> UNACCEPTABLE br> Re: Jed Babbin's Acceptable Realities : /p>

I appreciate the story from Jed Babbin today regarding the Bush administration's reluctance to get medieval on Moqtada Al-Sadr and his Iranian backers. The ironic thing about the criticism from Democrats on the Iraq war is that few complain about the "sensitive" way Bush has recently chose to fight this war. It appears to me that political points could be won by comparing Bush's tough-talk statements regarding terrorists prior to the Iraq war with the present acceptance of the on again, off again cease-fires that places American soldiers lives in the hands of hand-wringing Iraqi politicians.

p>Since John Kerry is known to take both sides of an issue, it appears to me that it's only a matter of time before another cease-fire becomes cause for politics over here. Then Bush will come off looking reactionary and political if he dares to ratchet up the heat on Al-Sadr.

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