Wednesday, February 09, 2005

History Through the Eyes of Pol Pot

"If I had to do it all over again, I'd take more time to smell the flowers. Yes, smelling flowers would definitely have helped to mask the stench of the three million people I slaughtered in The Killing Fields. Oh, and I'd grow a mustache, too. A Tom Selleck mustache. That would have been sweet."

--former Cambodian leader Pol Pot, upon his death in 1998