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...April 30, 1970, in order to protect the band of traitors headed by Lon Nol and Sirik Matak which the Nixon administration had installed in Phnom Penh by a criminal coup, President Richard Nixon ordered U.S. and Saigongovernment soldiers to invade Cambodia. More than 110,000 American and Saigon soldiers with the most up-to-date means of destruction at their disposal and with the help of the U.S. Air Force penetrated into northeastern Cambodia, bringing with them death, destruction and ruin...
They reduced entire border villages to ashes, they killed civilians, the American air force and the Saigon troops completely razed the districts of Mimot and Snuol. On May 2, a first contingent of South Vietnamese mercenaries arrived in Phnom Penh to defend the Lon Nol group, which was about to be destroyed by the Cambodian people, risen in mass in response to the historic call of March 23 of Norodom Sihanouk, the legal chief of state of Cambodia and president of its United National Front...
...administration and the Pentagon will continue to allow and tacitly encourage U.S. military personnel to help prop up illegitimate and unpopular regimes in which the American government and economic interests have large investments. Junior Cambodian officers told American reporters last week that Americans frequently advise and plan strategy for Lon Nol troops all around beseiged Phnom Penh. Such involvement will probably increase as the Khmer Rouge assault intensifies and achieves more successes like this week's capture of the former royal capital of Oudong...
...long as the U.S. government continues to support the Lon Nol regime in Cambodia and the Thieu regime in South Vietnam, it must continue to offer covert military assistance to protect the billions of dollars in weapons and economic aid already being provided...
Congress should cut off all military aid to the Thieu and Lon Nol regimes and bring all United States military personnel home, allowing the United Nations forces to ensure that the people of Southeast Asia can choose their governments with no outside pressure. Only then will the American people be sure that the Pentagon and the White House are not blatantly defying the laws passed by Congress...