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Interesting find, in light of the recent war that saw the technique of trumped up charges to sell the operation.

I guess we can start calling the Kristol Crowd, Rodham Republicans?

IN FAVOR OF THE [Kosovo] WAR
David Aaronovitch (The Independent)
Christiane Amanpour (CNN)
Larry Arnn (Claremont Institute)
William Bartley (Wall Street Journal)
Joe Biden (D-DE)
John R. Bolton (American Enterprise Institute)
Max Boot (Wall Street Journal)
Zbigniew Brzezinski (lobbyist)
Winston Churchill, Jr. (British Parliament)
Eliot A. Cohen (Johns Hopkins University)
Chris Cox (D-CA)
Bob Dole (lobbyist)
Eliot Engel (D-NY)
Steve Forbes (Forbes Magazine)
Thomas Friedman (New York Times)
John Fund (Wall Street Journal)
Paul Gigot (Wall Street Journal)
Jonah Goldberg (National Review)
Katharine Graham (Washington Post)
Hugo Gurdon (London Telegraph)
Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
William Hague (British Parliament)
David Hart (London Times)
John Hillen (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Bruce Herschensohn (Claremont Institute)
Albert R. Hunt (Wall Street Journal)
Jesse Jackson (liberal activist)
Bianca Jagger (celebrity)
Robert Kagan (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Robert D. Kaplan (Atlantic Monthly)
Garry Kasparov (Wall Street Journal)
Henry Kissinger (lobbyist)
William Kristol (Weekly Standard)
Tom Lantos (D-CA)
Joseph Lieberman (D-CT)
Richard Lugar (R-IN)
John McCain (R-AZ)
George Melloan (Wall Street Journal)
Dick Morris (NY Post)
Gerold Nadler (D-NY)
Kate O'Beirne (National Review)
William Odom (Hudson Institute)
Michael O'Hanlon (Brookings Institute)
Andrea Petersen (Wall Street Journal)
John Podhoretz (New York Post)
Ellen Joan Pollock (Wall Street Journal)
Ramesh Poneru (National Review)
David Pryce-Jones (National Review)
Therese Rafael (Wall Street Journal Europe)
Howell Raines (New York Times)
Vanessa Redgrave (actress)
David Rieff (Salon)
William Safire (New York Times)
William Saletan (Slate)
Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
Gerald Seib (Wall Street Journal)
Daniel Schorr (NPR)
Ike Skelton (D-MO)
George Soros (Open Society Institute)
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. (New York Times)
Ellen Tauscher (D-CA)
David Tell (Weekly Standard)
John Warner (R-VA)
Caspar Weinberger (Forbes Magazine)
George Will (columnist

Victor David Hanson, now a scribe at National Review, was also for the war but he actually went a step further and argued that Serbia was a threat to the United States.

I never could figure out why so many on the right were in favor either. Still can't....

... self-inflated Victor Davis Hanson, NRO'S WAR-CRIMES ADVOCATE and onetime ancient historian of repute.
There was room for disagreement on the Kosovo intervention.
If you hate Christians and want to support drug-dealing Islamic terrorists—as Hanson, apparently, does—then you had every reason to support the Kosovo Albanians, but even Mad Albright, after a testosterone injection, was never silly enough to suggest that Milosevic was going to send his tanks across Hungary, through Austria, and on to Berlin! Much less, that he had a delivery system that could rain chemical death on the American heartland.
As an "historian," Hanson should know that Albright's claim at Rambouillet was that Milosevic had carried out massacres of Albanian civilians, claims that have been largely debunked. No one ever suggested that he posed a threat either to Western Europe or the United States. In fact, the Europeans dragged their heels at Rambouillet, not because they liked Milosevic or because they were cowards, but because they did not fully believe Albright's lies, and because they disliked the idea of NATO bombing a European city that had suffered so much in two world wars. Hanson makes fun of the idea that Orthodox Christians were angered by the bombing, but they were, and they are still angry, if anybody will take the trouble to ask them. None of these facts—the location of Kosovo, Albright's lies, the reaction of the Orthodox—is a secret.

I used to admire Hanson's work on ancient history, but looking at his uninformed pontifications on European affairs, I would not trust his judgment on the time of day without checking my own watch. The moral quirk that encouraged him to contemplate the slaughter of innocent civilians with glee has led to an intellectual twist that blinds him to facts. His contempt for humanity leads to his contempt for truth. He's perfect for National Review Online.

For the their support of the attack on Serbia,I wonder if any of the Rodham Republicans received a thank you card from the KLA and their Al Qaeda allies, which was sent air mail delivery, and postmarked 911?

Kosovo saw the convergence of two forces, the Clinton Globalists, who wanted to downgrade National sovereignty, and the Internationalist, who wanted to expand NATO's role ("Out of area or out of business!) and spread American influence.

Thank you!