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To: Lion in Winter
To elaborate a bit more... I had a certain relationship with a bunch of croatians when I was a kid and a teenager. It was literally a "other side of the fence" thing where I lived in a fancy neighborhood and on the other side of the fence was a blue collar street. I became best friends with a croatian kid. His father and his fathers friends taught me how to hunt, fish, make wine, etc. I spent many hours freezing my *ss off with them, etc. (and drinking, too). Now, some of them were biased sort of people, they were all hard core anti-communist, and without going into detail weren't exactly apologetic about some relatively recent Croatian history. That is not to defend them, but the point is they really let me into their tight group and I was close with them. For that reason, I was on "their side" against the Serbs.

But that was irrational... even if I was pro-Croatian vs. the Serbs, that conflict was pretty much over when we were bombing the Serbs. I am just one lone freeper, but I was wrong. It is one of the few political positions I have ever regeretted, and for every Serb reading this, I am sorry.

13 posted on 04/07/2006 7:08:37 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Rodney King
You know, as joan said, the Serbs and Croats in the USA were all anti-commie. So,I am sure your friends were too. And, probably just a little nationalistic as well which happens when folks have to leave their homeland not by choice.

I am not a Serb either, but after figuring out that clinton was a BAD BAD MAN, I decided that I had better check out his foreign policy mistakes.

And THAT is how I came over to seeing that ALL sides in a civil war do bad stuff... but in the Yugoslavian civil war.... ONLY the Serbs were getting bashed by bubba clinton

So, knowing clinton to be a lout... well, I saw through the media hype and came to realise that the Serbs were fighting back after bad stuff was done to them by the kLA in Kosovo.

I too came late to seeing that the 1999 bombing was a BIG CLINTON MISTAKE.

And, I am ashamed that my country is probably going to be the cause of MORE Christians losing their homes, their churches and their Religion's HEARTLAND.

I am so sorry about that, I really am.

15 posted on 04/07/2006 7:20:24 PM PDT by Lion in Winter (Violent islam is the same as plain islam. No peace at all.... Just mass mayhem.)
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