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2022-01-16 Southeast Asia
Beijing clears US bombs before constructing China-Laos railway
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Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2022-01-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top
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#1 Lotta big numbers thrown around in there. I suspect this is Journalism Math™
Posted by Frank G 2022-01-16 07:28||   2022-01-16 07:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Still cleaning up what the 8th Air Force and the RAF left in Germany.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-01-16 07:49||   2022-01-16 07:49|| Front Page Top

#3 We were actually ar war with Germany when bombed them.
Posted by Too Old To Work 2022-01-16 09:54||   2022-01-16 09:54|| Front Page Top

#4 580,000 bombing missions?
Say What?
Posted by ed in texas 2022-01-16 10:52||   2022-01-16 10:52|| Front Page Top

#5  I suspect this is Journalism Math™

"We just kept pressing the times button and that's what we came up with."
Posted by SteveS 2022-01-16 11:02||   2022-01-16 11:02|| Front Page Top

#6 The people who won their side of the war and then promptly killed half a million Laotians really love talking about The Bombing.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-01-16 11:02||   2022-01-16 11:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Under the Hague Convention, a neutral state is responsible for expelling any belligerent force from its land. If the neutral is unwilling or unable, the other belligerent may take actions as deemed necessary.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-01-16 11:03||   2022-01-16 11:03|| Front Page Top

#8 I call BS. Nearly 200 bombing missions every single day of the year for all ten years -- over Laos alone? Really?
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-16 11:04||   2022-01-16 11:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh good! I'm glad someone came in to justify armed aggression against a neutral country. Say, what did we do when the Germans used the same excuse? Poland was launching attacks on German territory, the Germans *had* to invade to put a stop to it!

Oh that's right, they were hanged as war criminals. Tell me Kissinger doesn't deserve the same.
Posted by Punky Elmigum9411 2022-01-16 14:16||   2022-01-16 14:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Ok. Kissinger doesn't deserve the same.

Now fuck off.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-16 14:24||   2022-01-16 14:24|| Front Page Top

#11 I figure some of those bombs musta got dropped 10 times or more. I guess they bounce.
Posted by ed in texas 2022-01-16 15:24||   2022-01-16 15:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Oh boy… some one thinks the Germans were telling the truth?
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-01-16 19:11||   2022-01-16 19:11|| Front Page Top

#13 Why not? People believe in 'Peace in our Time'...
Posted by CrazyFool 2022-01-16 20:38||   2022-01-16 20:38|| Front Page Top

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