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Singer James Blunt 'prevented World War III'
BBC News ^ | 14 November 2010

Posted on 09/08/2013 7:53:14 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Singer James Blunt has told the BBC how he refused an order to attack Russian troops when he was a British soldier in Kosovo.Blunt said he was willing to risk a court martial by rejecting the order from a US General.

But he was backed by British Gen Sir Mike Jackson, who said: "I'm not going to have my soldiers be responsible for starting World War III."

Blunt was ordered to seize an airfield, but the Russians had got there first.

In an interview with BBC Radio 5 live, broadcast on Sunday, he said: "I was given the direct command to overpower the 200 or so Russians who were there.

"I was the lead officer with my troop of men behind us...

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 09/08/2013 7:53:14 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Imagine outbreak of WW3, all because of the “Ethnic Albanians” of Kosovo.

RIDICULOUS. Was NEVAR our bees’ wax.

Good for this Brit..!


2 posted on 09/08/2013 7:58:24 PM PDT by gaijin
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Will there be anyone like him in Syria?


3 posted on 09/08/2013 8:00:12 PM PDT by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Wesley Clark (Weasely Clerk) has always been an ass.


4 posted on 09/08/2013 8:01:03 PM PDT by Bobalu (Bobo the Wonder Marxist leads Operation Rodeo Clown against Syria)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Would that be GEN Wesley Clark, US Army? As commander of Ft. Hood, he participated in the murder of the Branch Davidians at Waco, TX. He was the allied commander in the Kosovo War. He was a real weasel them (and he has remained so to this day).
5 posted on 09/08/2013 8:02:15 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: Bobalu

I had a feeling it was him! Does he still infest the area of Little Rock, Ark?


6 posted on 09/08/2013 8:05:12 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The story the U.S. Press wasn’t allowed to cover, because it might make a Democrat Hero President look bad.


7 posted on 09/08/2013 8:08:54 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Even if he prevented WWIII, I still hold him responsible for inflicting the world with his horrible hit song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oofSnsGkops


8 posted on 09/08/2013 8:13:45 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: MinorityRepublican; All
Second the comments re: General Wesley Clark...NOT a fan, to say the least!

The "whole story" (at link) didn't turn out quite the way the headlines implied...the Brit. soldier actually was the "hero" here, and not just yakking back about "speaking truth to power", facing off against the war-mongering American general, and etc....good for him!!

9 posted on 09/08/2013 8:19:03 PM PDT by 88keys
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Well...nobody's perfect...LOL!
10 posted on 09/08/2013 8:20:46 PM PDT by 88keys
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To: gaijin

Oh brothr. How many times have out “leaders” almost started WW3 that we never heard about?


11 posted on 09/08/2013 8:36:56 PM PDT by GeronL
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He may only have delayed it by fourteen years.


12 posted on 09/08/2013 8:42:32 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Bobalu
Wesley Clark (Weasely Clerk) has always been an ass.

He's A Democrat!

13 posted on 09/08/2013 8:58:52 PM PDT by Retired Chemist
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>> He's A Democrat RAT!
14 posted on 09/08/2013 9:03:36 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: MinorityRepublican
During Bill Clinton’s 1999 NATO-led war in Kosovo – which according to some estimates cost as much as $75 billion – we bombed Belgrade for 78 days, killed almost 3,000 civilians, and shredded the civilian infrastructure (including every bridge across the Danube.)

We devastated the environment, bombed the Chinese embassy, came very close to engaging in armed combat against Russian forces, and in general, pursued a horrific and inhumane strategy to rain misery on the civilian population of Belgrade in order to pressure Milosevic into surrendering.

Why did we do all that? The US did not even have an arguable interest in the Balkans, and no one ever tried to claim that Serbia represented any kind of threat to our nation or our interests.

But for months the Clinton administration had told us that Milosevic was waging a vicious genocide against Albanian Muslims, and needed to be stopped. The New York Times called it a “humanitarian war.” In March 1999 – the same month that the bombing started – Clinton’s State Department publicly suggested that as many as 500,000 Albanian Kosovars had been murdered by Milosevic’s regime. In May of that year, as the bombing campaign was drawing to a close, Secretary of Defense William Cohen lowered that estimate 100,000.

Five years after the bombing, after all the forensic investigations had been completed, the prosecutors at Milosevic’s “War Crimes” trial in the Hague were barely been able to document a questionable figure of perhaps 5,000 “bodies and body parts.” During the war, the American people were told that Kosovo was full of mass graves filled with the bodies of murdered Albanian Muslims. But none were ever found.

15 posted on 09/08/2013 10:48:37 PM PDT by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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Maybe he’ll cut a tune with Roger Waters; The Ballad of James Blunt.


16 posted on 09/08/2013 10:50:24 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Maceman

Bump


17 posted on 09/08/2013 10:52:14 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Maceman
strategy to rain misery on the civilian population of Belgrade in order to pressure Milosevic into surrendering. Why did we do all that?

Because they kept telling us that civilian misery didn't matter to Milosevic, which would make that a weird strategy

18 posted on 09/08/2013 10:53:51 PM PDT by GeronL
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The term was “ethnic cleansing”,in other words : reversing multi-cultural ism.


19 posted on 09/08/2013 11:00:42 PM PDT by Jumpmaster (Mitt said he will put America back to work. 53% said "Screw that"!)
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To: Maceman
Clinton’s State Department publicly suggested that as many as 500,000 Albanian Kosovars had been murdered by Milosevic’s regime.

That was the same State Department that said this.

20 posted on 09/09/2013 3:46:12 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty
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