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Read the articles by Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times. He was on the ground in Belgrade and could not figure out why we kept bombing CIVILIAN targets, which included bridges and schools. Clinton wanted to bring Serbia to its knees, and he did.

NATO bombing of Serbia and Belgrade lasted from 24th of March until 10th of Jun 1999. Attacks lasted continually for 78 days and during that time infrastructure, industrial objects, schools, medical facilities, media houses, monuments of culture, churches and monasteries were heavily damaged. Although Belgrade didn't suffer as much as Novi Sad, which lost all its bridges or Niš and Aleksinac where cluster bombs were dropped on a market place and residential area, Belgrade still has the most striking ruins.

The best-known ruins are Building of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Yugoslav Ministry of Defence, both in Kneza Miloša Street, as well as Serbian National Television in Aberdareva Street. The other side of the story, one about ordinary people who spent three months in Belgrade basements shelters, remains unseen.

The only question I ask is WHY?

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

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.