Posted on 02/13/2008 6:27:36 PM PST by Bokababe
"He (McCain) did everything that we asked of him, including arming the KLA", said Albanian lobbyist Joe DioGuardi. The Albanians collected one million dollars for the presidential campaign of this senator.
Americans of Albanian heritage collected a million dollars in one evening for the presidential campaign of Republican Senator John McCain, said the Albanian American Civic League yesterday, the lobby group headed by former Congressman Joe DioGuardi. A reception for McCain was held January 22 at the Saint Regis Hotel in Manhattan, and the senator, who is now leading in the runoff for the Republican party candidacy in the November elections, cut his campaign in Florida by one day to attend this gathering.
"Even in 1998 when we had problems with Milosevic, McCain did everything that we asked of him to the benefit of the Albanian people, including arming the KLA", announced DioGuardi. "We are American Albanians and we need a leader who will strengthen this country... We must support John McCain because he did everything we asked of him for Kosovo, from supporting the Kosovo Liberation Army to supporting the independence of Kosovo. Two years ago he spoke in Brussels and said that independence is the only solution", concluded this former congressman who has been fighting for the independence of Kosovo and Metohija for more than twenty years.
He explained that the first thing McCain said to him when he entered the hotel in Manhattan on January 22: "Joe, I saw your people in Michigan, and in South Carolina and in New Hampshire", from which this lobbyist deduced that all Americans of Albanian background will be voting for the senator from Arizona.
DioGuardi and his wife Shirley Cloys-DioGuardi have been friends with McCain for years, and he intervened several times in the Senate on behalf of the Albanians. Because of that, the Albanian American Civic League awarded him the "Balkan Award for Peace" a year and a half ago, and the initiative was the proposed Senate resolution - which McCain wrote - in which thanks is extended to the Albanians for "saving all the Jews who lived in Albania or who sought shelter there during the Nazi Holocaust".
However, even though he is leading in the presidential nomination, John McCain has not yet succeeded in convincing the primary wing of the Republican Party - the conservatives - that he is the right candidate. One of the reasons is that he often spoke and voted against the majority Republicans, as in 1999 when he asked for more intensive air bombing of Serbia.
In April of that year, three weeks after the bombing commenced, he announced that the US is in danger of losing the war to the Serbian Army which has "antiquated machinery" and "absolutely no military air power", if massive strategic air attacks are not initiated. "Attacks on any infrastructure target must not be prevented. We all regret civilian losses, as well as our own, but they cannot be avoided," he said.
During the pre-election campaign in February 2000 at a meeting in Manhatten, John McCain asked for the release of all Albanian prisoners in the prisons of Serbia proper, and a year later he used his influence to ask the administration for an urgent investigation into the killing of the brothers Bitici who were taken from prison and killed in the police training center in Petrovo Selo in eastern Serbia. This February 5 the senator held another meeting in Manhattan and in the public there was a visible Albanian flag.
McInsane campaigns to fight the war on terror but has a history of supporting illegal alien Muslims by helping them kill Christians and take over their country.
I’m not pimping for anyone, that’s why you had to ask?
So, Tina, since you decided to come into this thread about Kosovo, please enlighten us about the McCain position on Kosovo.
Soros supports Kosovo independence, he’s been propping up propaganda machines with funding since the early days of the Balkan crises. He’s utterly contemptible.
huhhh?????? It’s ‘invisible’....I see nothing!
Thank you for the information. I never understood why it was US who jumped into an ‘OLD’ European problem.
If I agreed with your assumption that having been a communist is valid reason to bomb a country that hasn't threatened you, to dissolve it's territory and provide military and diplomatic support to illegal aliens' claims of entitlement:
I'd still have to point out that the people you describe were the ones we were bombing, the article is written about mcCainiac and muslim albanians.
So don't be concerned, we all know that muslims in Europe are totally forthright and honest, that they are tolerant of other people and religions, and that supporting them against Christian Serbs was a highlight of the Clinton presidency.
“Can you point me to a link which has a clear exposition of it all?”
In haste as I am off to a meeting. Try Googling “McCain KLA” or “McCain Kosovo” There was also a thread here on FR a few years ago, I believe, about his fund raising activities with the KLA terrorists. Of course, in this regard he really isn’t a lot worse than either Bush or Clinton or Mrs. Bill Clinton.
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Open Convention
Afternoon BTTT!!!!
Actually Serbs were killed by the Nazi-allied Croatian Ustashe in ways even more brutal than gas chambers, not for helping Jews, but simply for being Serbs. The Nazis sent letters of rebuke to the Ustashe objecting to their inhumane means of murder.
Clinton is the one who went along with UN
And i know why they did that. Oil pipe line
Yes they went through hell. The same kind of hell Jews went through
Yes, and that is part of why us Orthodox Christians are so angry at anyone who supports giving the Serb’s ancient homeland, Kosovo (properly called Kosovo and Metohija, meaning, the Field of Blackbirds and Land of the Monastery) to the Muslim Albanians.
The shift in the population of Kosovo from Serb to Albanian began with the WW II genocide against the Serbs, continued with the Communist policy of trying to homogenize the Yugoslav population, and was completed by illegal immigration from Albania and intimidation of the remaining Serbs during the 1980’s and on.
The pre-communist land deeds in Kosovo are virtually all held by either the Serbian Orthodox Church or monasteries on Mount Athos to which land was deeded so the rents could be used for the support of the monks, with the balance largely belonging to Serb farmers.
I will not vote for anyone who supported the illegal NATO war against Yugoslavia, not because I have any fondness for the last Communist holdouts, but because its supporters have either bought into lying Muslim propaganda (and are thus unfit to govern when a confrontation with radical Islam is the main foreign policy issue of the next decade) or (worse) think the jihad can be appeased, and want to do it with Orthodox land.
I’m not sure which third party I’ll vote for. Obama may not have Serb blood on his hands, but he’s a d*mned socialist with the blood of the unborn on his hands thanks to his votes in the Illinois legislature, and I wouldn’t vote for him anyway.
my grandfathers family came from that area. He was from Montenegro
I actually managed to contact family from there. Heard lots of stories about what was going on. And yes I felt Clinton was very wrong aiding the kla. they were linked to alqaida. and drug running thugs.
Thanks for the ping. I had already resolved not to vote for him for other reasons, so I'll just add this to the list. :)
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