If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case.
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You can get something really really fabulous. I just tasted the Pol Roger Winston Churchill 1998 and my god, it's so delicious. And if you want to have a special celebration, you know, that's the way to go if money is no object.
There is a great difference between surrender and capture, ... Surrender means we have to give Pol Pot safe conduct. We have to capture him alive.
Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.
There was no sadness or sorrow expressed at the cremation. We are actually happy because we will be spared of further international criticism because of Pol Pot.
The future of the country is really the most serious ... since Pol Pot.
Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.
I don't know if censure would be in order, but an apology, because it does a great disservice to the men and women who suffered in the gulags and in Pol Pot's killing fields,
This is the type of thing you would expect from a repressive regime, ... This is not the type of thing you would expect from the United States. If I read this to you and did not tell you that is was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that have no concern for human beings.
As you know, they have had their differences in the past eight months. During this time, Pol Pot has lost almost everything, including his dignity, his former control of the military and the people.
I think we should care as much as we cared about the death of Hitler or if Hitler had been captured. Pol Pot committed a genocide.
I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him. But China could.
Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!
Like a cornered animal, which turns instinctively to confront pursuing predators, Pol Pot viewed policy in terms of a fight to the death. The alternative was to be devoured.
My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.
A court must be set up on the advice of national and international lawyers who are currently conducting their work, ... I am one among many people who support an investigation into the genocidal regime of Pol Pot, which must be punished.