[ek_hornbeck]

He started a war based on Christianne Ammanpour being on the border showing the plight of these muslims going back to Albania and yet never showed how these Albanians were taking over Serb villages and the entire area in the first place which led to the Serbs saying enough is enoug

To be fair, Serbs did commit atrocities against unarmed civilians, as did the Kosovar Albanians (who continue to do so today). What disgusted me about US media coverage and the rest of what we heard from Clinton's mouthpieces, however, was how single-sided it was. Once the CLinton administration committed to backing the Muslims, we never again heard a single word about acts of terrorism and murder committed by the Kosovars. They were painted as completely innocent victims, as though we were dealing with armed Nazis shipping unarmed Jews and other "undesirables" off to death camps, as opposed to an ugly civil war with plenty of blame and blood on the hands of both sides.

[roofgoat]

“To be fair, Serbs did commit atrocities against unarmed civilians:

and that’s what happens when people keep getting pushed, and I use the word pushed mildly.

[manc]

Agree with every word there, great post.

[Peter Libra]

Sadly I remember the immense propaganda machine that was the American and Canadian news media. I remember the "authoritative" information about the "mass graves". The maximum bodies found, (I stand to be corrected) were a few hundred and spread apart.

Louise Arbour of Canada was described by two Canadian lawyers as the "unindicted war criminal". She was the UN human rights guru. Ammanpour was guilty as well. I understand Hilary Clinton had urged Bill Clinton to do what he did.

The shouts of "ethnic cleansing" to describe the actions of the Serbs were parroted incessantly. This by the North American media. Female anchors were using this phrase, often with a rasp in their voice. It was in fact a description of what has happened in Kosovo to the Serbs. The figures are available.