Ted Kennedy's (Wrong) History Lesson

No bloodbath after we left Vietnam??? Thats what he said, according to Larry Elder, to a question from Tim Russert:

"Well, first of all, I heard the same kinds of suggestions at the time of the end of the Vietnam War. The 'Great Bloodbath,' we're going to have over 100,000 people that were going to be murdered and killed at that time. And for those of us who were strongly opposed to the war, [we] heard those same kinds of arguments."

He's right, it wasn't 100,000, but millions:

In July 1986, The Wall Street Journal wrote, "South Vietnam was eventually conquered by the North, and Cambodia was taken over by the communist Khmer Rouge, who in trying to recreate a primitive communist agricultural society slaughtered from 1 million to 3 million Cambodians. If we take 2 million as the best estimate, then in four years the government of this small nation of 7 million alone killed 64 percent more people than died in the 10-year Vietnam War. Overall, the best estimate of those killed by the victorious communists in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia is 2,270,000. . . . "

So, why don't we trust liberals on National Security? Maybe for the delusional world outlook of Democrat leaders like Kennedy:

Kennedy's revisionist history and Kerry's attack on the honor of those who served in Vietnam demonstrate why many Americans refuse to trust Democrats with national security. They called Reagan a war-monger, criticized the military buildup that hastened the demise of the Soviet Union, insisted that SDI wouldn't and couldn't work, and now call Bush a war criminal.