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"There were 750,000 "unnatural deaths" in Cambodia from 1975-78.....The Nixon [and Ford] administrations predicted a million deaths in Cambodia if US aid were to cease."

"There were 750,000 "unnatural deaths" in Cambodia from 1975-78.....The Nixon [and Ford] administrations predicted a million deaths in Cambodia if US aid were to cease."

-Noam Chomsky, infamously praising the Khmer Rouge for saving hundreds of thousands of lives and for killing virtually no one at all.  The prediction actually referred to the likely death toll from a Communist take-over, and asserted that the Khmer Rouge would murder more than one million people if they took power.<ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/manufacturing.html</ref>  The Khmer Rouge should indeed take the blame for those who were killed by their refusal to allow foreign aid, although before 1975 an aid cut-off would likely have cost only thousands of lives at most, and the Khmer Rouge did nothing to alleviate the famine they artificially cultivated.  Chomsky cultists (Wade Frazier, I'm looking at you) ''still'' use these easily debunked claims to openly deny the Khmer Rouge genocide, largely thanks to willful ignorance and self-deception.  Cambodia's 1975 population of 6.8 million<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref> fell to 4 million by 1979.<ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/labedz.pdf</ref>

-Noam Chomsky, infamously praising the Khmer Rouge for saving hundreds of thousands of lives and for killing virtually no one at all.  The prediction actually referred to the likely death toll from a Communist take-over, and asserted that the Khmer Rouge would murder more than one million people if they took power.<ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/manufacturing.html</ref>  The Khmer Rouge should indeed take the blame for those who were killed by their refusal to allow foreign aid, although before 1975 an aid cut-off would likely have cost only thousands of lives at most, and the Khmer Rouge did nothing to alleviate the famine they artificially cultivated.  Chomsky cultists (Wade Frazier, I'm looking at you) ''still'' use these easily debunked claims to openly deny the Khmer Rouge genocide, largely thanks to willful ignorance and self-deception.  Cambodia's 1975 population of 6.8 million<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref> fell to 4 million by 1979.<ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/labedz.pdf</ref>

"Oh will there be a dreadful bloodbath/ When the Khmer Rouge come to town?/ Aye, there'll be a dreadful bloodbath/ When the Khmer Rouge come to town."-US print and television journalists, singing to the tune of "She Was Poor But She Was Honest," openly mock the very idea of a Communist genocide in Cambodia.<ref>http://jim.com/canon.htm#ch2</ref>

"Oh will there be a dreadful bloodbath/ When the Khmer Rouge come to town?/ Aye, there'll be a dreadful bloodbath/ When the Khmer Rouge come to town."

-US print and television journalists, singing to the tune of "She Was Poor But She Was Honest," openly mock the very idea of a Communist genocide in Cambodia.<ref>http://jim.com/canon.htm#ch2</ref>