WHAT IS OWED TO THE SERBS.

The one guy who stood there and told Clark to pound sand. Clark was reportedly furious if memory serves.

And the Brit troopies and junior officers [*Ruperts*] who worked for him loved their boss for showing that for some officers, loyalty down the Chain of Command is just as meaningful a duty as it is up the chain. And they happily nicknamed him *Darth Jackson* or *Darth Jackie,* in part due to his gravel-toned voice. In part.

The one guy who stood there and told Clark to pound sand. Clark was reportedly furious if memory serves

I was very happy when Wesley Clark's presidential aspirations and political career fizzled out. A Clark presidency would be a lot like Obama's, except we'd have troops "nation building" and "keeping peace" in every third world country instead of just a handful. In other words, he'd be a combination of Barack Obama and Lindsey Graham.

I had to laugh when Clark thought he could run for Pres as a “War General”.
Quite a few people remember his actions, behavior, attitudes, etc.

He’d also have had classes on proper sodomy techniques, he was one of the great drivers behind the push for the first end to the ban on homos in uniform a.k.a. “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”
We’d have seen him and his purse limply motioning his driver on where to go.

Thanks for taking me up on my Paul Watson comment. Either Mr. Watson was flat-out lying (which he wasn’t) or the rest of the media REFUSED to let Americans know what was really going on there as their higher priority was to protect Clinton from war crimes. In the 1930s the New York Times had reporter Walter Duranty stationed in Russia and Ukraine. EVERY report of his talked about how great Russia was doing with its Communist experiment, versus people in the US (at the time) comparing it to our Great Depression. With those reports THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS went to the Soviet Union for a better life (Stalin was inviting them), with many taking their families. Once they showed up, their passports were taken away, then times got tougher and tougher. Finally Stalin got paranoid and executed virtually all of them. 2 Americans made it home. You don’t read about it because the people that control education prefer we not know the dark side of Communism.

That was 80 years ago. I WOULD LOVE to think that we live in a country where the media doesn’t get away with lying to us anymore, at least on the scale of war crimes or crimes against humanity...but given our bombing of Serbia, I guess we’re just not there yet.

As to WHY? Money maybe, but militarily we did not want to fight on the ground, since that meant a body count under Clinton’s watch. So we first bombed military targets. The Serbs played it perfect - they put up cardboard cutouts of military targets and we sent $1M sorties to bomb that cardboard into oblivion - we were getting nowhere. So the only choice left, short of ground troops, was civilian targets, to bring the country to its knees. That was a war crime. But it was ok because the Serbs, I guess, were the bad guys in the eyes of the countries that held the power.

Could you maybe tell me more, please? In a private mail, if you like.

Oh, I'm quite happy to spread the news in public. Unlike governments, we do not [mostly] hide our secrets away.

***As usual with the Clintons, follow the money.***

Note in particular the *accidental* bombing of the Chinese embassy. Note who was killed in that bombing, and then follow the money to the Clinton's 1997-98 Loral money-for-missiles scandal, in which the Clintons took cash in an exchange for missile guidance technology that went to China, who then passed it along to the North Koreans and Iranians.

Re the Vince Foster death: Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the US, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, resides here in McLean, VA on the banks of the Potomac River, right outside the [U.S.] Civil War battlefield site at Ft Marcy Park, where Vincent Foster's body was ~~dumped~~ found.

***And also take especial note of who the neighbors were in the vicinity where Vince Foster's body was dumped.

Too, recall that one of the early primary targets on the bombing was a museum....

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