It Never Happened

While some of us remember the killing fields and boat people...and understand the warnings of a similar catastrophe should we precipitously leave Iraq...

The good Senator John Kerry and B. Hussein Obama, and fellow democrats apparently have a different take:

James Taranto in the Opinion Journal writes:

In 2001, California's Orange County Register published an investigation of communist re-education camps in postwar Vietnam:

To corroborate the experiences of refugees now living in Orange County, the Register interviewed dozens of former inmates and their families, both in the United States and Vietnam; analyzed hundreds of pages of documents, including testimony from more than 800 individuals sent to jail; and interviewed Southeast Asian scholars. The review found:

* An estimated 1 million people were imprisoned without formal charges or trials.

* 165,000 people died in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam's re-education camps, according to published academic studies in the United States and Europe.

* Thousands were abused or tortured: their hands and legs shackled in painful positions for months, their skin slashed by bamboo canes studded with thorns, their veins injected with poisonous chemicals, their spirits broken with stories about relatives being killed.

* Prisoners were incarcerated for as long as 17 years, according to the U.S. Department of State, with most terms ranging from three to 10 years.

* At least 150 re-education prisons were built after Saigon fell 26 years ago.

* One in three South Vietnamese families had a relative in a re-education camp.

According to John Kerry, "it didn't happen."

Read the rest here.

And never doubt for a moment that the lives of millions of innocents (non-voting, non-donating innocents, naturally) are a small price to pay for the retention of power and privilege by the Democrat Politicians.

They have already done so within living memory of anyone over 40. Their only strategy: deny it ever happened.

Men who can live with themselves after desecrating the Oval Office with interns and cigars, men who can live with themselves after labeling their military brothers as rapists and torturers for political favor, men who can sleep at night after allowing their mistress to drown in a car they drove off a bridge, rather than risk scandal to taint marriage or political career...are clearly capable to lying and cheating if it is a benefit to them.

Even worse are men who can allow millions to die, be tortured and imprisoned because it is politically useful and expedient for their careers, cannot even be counted as members of the human race. They are very simply, monsters. Monsters that should be shunned by the community of civilized and decent people, if not imprisoned for their crimes against humanity. I would prefer execution, painful and prolonged, but I don't dare say it, for fear of it being misconstrued as a threat, and bringing down upon my head aggravation that I really don't need.

But these are the denizens of the past and current Democrat Party.

Their disease and corruption is so rife, we fail to see it. Our noses are so jaded by the stench, we no longer smell the rot.

Never doubt that the weakening and even the destruction of America will also be acceptable to them, as long as they, like the Vichy Government of Nazi occupied France, can retain their exalted positions, their status and prerogatives.

They believe in nothing, therefore "betrayal" has no meaning to them. Their only principle is advancement, wealth, power, and privilege for themselves. They are the very picture and definition of evil greed.

Taking up their cause, believing, supporting or following them puts your soul at risk. Corruption, like Truth is a virus.

Make sure you choose to expose yourself to the right one.

The Gunslinger