Dodd-ering Fool

From The Washington Times/Inside Politics column...

Christopher J. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, was asked Sunday what he thinks would happen if American troops leave Iraq.

"Well, it can't be any worse than it is today," Mr. Dodd replied on CBS' "Face the Nation."

Mr. Dodd's words echoed his remarks from the Congressional Record of March 12, 1975: "The greatest gift our country can give to the Cambodian people is peace, not guns. And the best way to accomplish that goal is by ending military aid now."

The subsequent communist takeover of Cambodia led, of course, to one of the great slaughters of the 20th century.

Back on January 18, I posted "Kennedy's & VietNam".

Included was an excerpt from the Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby about Teddy Kennedy's involvement in cutting funds in Southeast Asia...

He helped lead the congressional drive to cut off financial aid to the pro-American governments in Saigon and Phnom Penh, brushing aside President Gerald Ford's warning that "the horror and the tragedy that we see on television" would only grow worse if America deserted its allies.

But Kennedy and the Democrats spurned Ford's request, and the result was unspeakable agony -- Cambodia's killing fields, Vietnam's re-education camps, waves of "boat people" hurling themselves into the sea. Having seen the results of US abandonment in Indochina, how can Kennedy advocate the same policy in Iraq?

Deja Vu!