Posted on 10/20/2004 6:57:53 AM PDT by DTA
The War Democrats Believe In
The Democrats have been characterized as a party of peace marchers and flag-burners -- a Neville Chamberlain cadre chattering away on cable TV, knee-jerk internationalists whove mistaken the United Nations for the United States Marines.
I must protest this calumny.
Under the right circumstances, the Democrats can be Sgt. York and Audie Murphy times Rambo. There was a little war of which Democrats are exceedingly fond so much so that theyre still bragging about it five years later.
Its a conflict that didnt involve allegations of weapons of mass destruction. The nation we subjugated wasnt a sponsor of international terrorism. (This time, we fought for the terrorists.)
It wasnt remotely related to national security. And the justification for our intervention turned out to be a complete fabrication.
For 78 days in 1999, we bombed Christian Yugoslavia (our ally in two World Wars) to aid Moslem separatists who were tight with Osama bin Laden. Ever since, NATO has occupied its sovereign territory with disastrous results.
Appearing on CNNs Late Edition in August, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton offered her husbands 1999 adventure, over the ancient province of Kosovo, as evidence that Democrats are better at fighting wars than Republicans. (I would have thought Korea and Vietnam proved that conclusively.)
We smashed the Serb war-machine, and we didnt lose a single American military person, Hillary boasted of the conflict her draft-dodger hubby dragged us into. She neglected to mention that it was a war we fought from 30,000 feet.
The party of McGovern and Dean is so proud of this notable feat of arms, that it invited Hashim Thaci, chieftain of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and Clintons erstwhile ally, to attend the Democratic National Convention. (Youd think the Party in a Perpetual Fog would be at least a little curious about how Thaci got the nickname Snake. Hint: Its not because hes a patron of the arts.)
On his return to Kosovo, Snake Thaci head of a terrorist gang that finances its operations through drug-running and prostitution proclaimed, It was confirmed once again that a Democratic administration would recognize and respect the will of the people of Kosovo for self-determination.
Self-determination is code for independence from Yugoslavia the creation of another Republic of Jihad (Balkanistan) on the periphery of Europe.
The Clinton gang that ran the war including Richard Holbrooke and Wesley Clark (then Supreme Commander of NATO forces) -- are slated for key posts in a Kerry administration. Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs under Clinton, Holbrooke (who once called the Serbs murderous assholes) could be Kerrys Secretary of State.
The War Hero and his running-mate both voted for the Senate resolution authorizing the use of force in Kosovo. A war resolution died in the Republican House.
What, we went to war without congressional authorization! We also did it without the permission of the United Nations. (Whatever happened to multilateralism?) Still, the French and Germans were on board always a bad sign.
In a July 23, 2004 letter to Albanian-Americans, Kerry charged the Bush administration was turning its back on the region Whenever Bush doesnt coddle terrorists (the PLO, the KLA) Kerry accuses him of abandoning whole regions.
In said letter, Kerry declared, The people of Kosovo must be able to determine their own future, including how they want to be governed. Since the people of Kosovo now are overwhelmingly Moslem, thanks in part to Clinton, Kerry is committing himself to Kosovos independence.
He wants to finish the job our last Democratic president started in 1999.
Kosovo is the ancient heartland of Serbian Orthodoxy. Until the 1970s, its population was predominately Serb.
Due to illegal immigration from Albania, Moslems became a majority and began agitating for autonomy. Then they started committing atrocities against their Serb neighbors like beating elderly nuns, raping young girls and attacking monasteries. Then the KLA which the U.S. State Department listed as a terrorist group as late as 1998 started assassinating Yugoslav police and government officials.
Slobodan Milosevic, an ex-communist apparatchik who was President of Yugoslavia at the time, overreacted. (It is the Balkans, after all, a region second only to the Middle East for ethnic/religious harmony.)
Casting about for a way to take the nations attention off oral sex and impeachment, Bubba determined that we must intervene to save the saintly Albanians from the savage Serbs.
Ethnic cleansing was afoot, President Perjury gravely intoned. Exactly how this was different from the exchange of populations that took place throughout Europe in the aftermath of World War II (think of Poland and Germany, think of India and Pakistan) was never quite explained.
Worse, there were reports of killing fields and mass graves. Milosevic was cast as an architect of genocide the Heinrich Himmler of the Balkans,
At the Rambouillet conference, the Yugoslav president was presented with an ultimatum: allow a peace-keeping force into Kosovo (as a prelude to detaching the province from Yugoslavia) and permit NATO forces to occupy the entire country, if they choose.
The Serbs refused and the bombing commenced. We killed over 3,000 mostly civilians, mostly with cluster-bombs -- before Milosevic finally yielded to vastly superior force.
After the Yugoslav Federal Army was driven from Kosovo, forensic experts scoured the countryside, and came up empty-handed.
A December 31, 1999, article in the Wall Street Journal (coincidentally, by Daniel Pearl) reported that allegations of indiscriminate mass murder, rape camps, crematoriums, mutilation of the dead havent been borne out in the six months since NATO troops entered Kosovo. Ethnic-Albanian militants, humanitarian organizations, NATO and the news media fed off each other to give genocide rumors credibility. Now, a different picture is emerging.
Following these revelations, there were no cries of Where are the MGs? (mass graves). Republicans didnt begin every speech by accusing Clinton of lying to the nation in his rush to justify an unnecessary war (though they could have).
Michael Moore did not make a documentary on how a Democratic president engineered a conflict to advance his personal agenda. (Fahrenheit 1999?) No one in the media asked about Clintons exit strategy (5 years later, U.S. forces are still stationed in Kosovo) or demanded to know how he intended to win the peace.
Whether or not there was ethnic cleansing before the war, there certainly was afterward.
Albanians, who were handed a victory by Clinton and NATO, drove out 277,000 Serbs. (Hundreds were murdered and thousands brutalized.) As of March 2004, Moslem multiculturalists had destroyed 135 Orthodox churches, monasteries and shrines all under the watchful eyes of KFOR , as NATOs Keystone Cop peace-keeping force is called.
The rampage continues. The latest pogrom occurred in March, when (in a planned and coordinated campaign) 28 Serbs were murdered, more than 600 wounded and another 3,600 forced to flee. The Serbs left in Kosovo -- estimated at between 102,000 and 114,000 -- live in a state of siege. Should KFOR be withdrawn, theyd all be dead or exiled in a matter of days.
Yes, Kosovo truly was the Democrats finest hour a prime example of just how tough the party of Jimmy Carter and Ramsey Clark can be, when theyre in a fighting mood.
On the other hand, their Kosovo allies are threatening to give scum-of-the-earth a bad name. Back in 99, Senator Joe Lieberman, whos rumored to know something about foreign policy, called the KLA freedom fighters. Well, you know what the moral relativists of the left say: One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.
As it transpires, the KLA is allied with other freedom fighters, -- whose SOP is car bombs and demolishing sky-scrappers. Bin Laden was active in the Balkans as early as 1994.
In a Washington Times story published within days of 9/11, defense expert Bill Gertz disclosed: Islamic radicals, including supporters of bin Laden, have been supporting Albanian rebels fighting in the region (who then were trying to de-stabilize Montenegro), including members of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Intelligence officials have said there are reports that KLA members have been trained at bin Laden camps in Afghanistan. During the initial fighting there, U.S. units scooped up Kosovar Albanians who were serving with the Talibans foreign legion.
Another investigative article (Al Qaedas Balkan Links, The Wall Street Journal, November 1, 2002) noted, By feeding off the regions impoverished republics and taking root in the unsettled aftermath of the Bosnia and Kosovo conflicts, al Qaeda, along with Iranian Revolutionary Guard-sponsored terrorists, have burrowed their way into Europes backyard.
Also, in the wake of the Democrats merry little war, Kosovo became the prime route, after Turkey, for the importation of heroin from Southeast Asia to Europe just one more way our friends the freedom fighters thanked us for giving them a country.
The foregoing all is courtesy of Bill Clinton, John Kerry and the other Democrats who know what the US military is for killing Christians to aid Moslem terrorists.
Whatever the shortcomings of President Bushs plans for Iraq, at least hes trying to bring democracy to a nation thats never known it before. Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney ousted a brutal dictator, who sponsored international terrorism and (at the very least) was actively acquiring WMD-technology.
In Kosovo, we put the terrorists in power. Kerry helped. He voted for it. He defends it. (Thaci was his honored guest in Boston.) Now hes pushing independence for the terrorists. In terms of betraying the West, this is easily the best work hes done since his contribution to undermining the U.S. war effort in Vietnam in 1971.
Kerry terrorist connection ping
This column should be required reading for every voter.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, it seems that the Dems are trying to create a new super enemy that can be used for the Orwellian perpetual war.
The only problem with this, however, is that Bush has also defended the Kosovo war. But maybe out of ignorance and deference to the judgment of his predecessors.
A Message from the Serbian-American Voters' League*
This November thousands of Serbian-Americans will be faced with an important choice. They will choose between a President who has endeavored to take a more even-handed approach to the former Yugoslavia than his predecessor, and a challenger whose old-guard allies and advisors have condoned the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Serbs from the Krajina, armed the Muslim side in Bosnia, started an illegal and unprovoked war against Serbia, and allowed Kosovo to become a KLA fiefdom.
As individuals we may disagree with some aspects of President George W. Bushs policies. As members of the Serbian-American community, however, we have to take into account the fact that John Kerrys foreign policy is being molded by Clintons veterans whose zeal for anti-Serb interventions has been abundantly proven. As The New York Times noted (April 11, 2004) Kerrys foreign policy advisors are more hawkish than most Democrats: He routinely consults [with] Biden, Berger and Holbrooke
Potential secretaries of State Biden and Holbrooke, for instance, were leading advocates of military intervention against Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic during the 1990s
Many of the key figures around Kerry staunchly supported the Kosovo war.
People are policy, they say in Washington, and history suggests that range of opinion will shape a new presidents foreign policy as much as the specific ideas the candidate advances during the campaign. Richard Holbrooke, who infamously called Serbs murderous assholes (The New Yorker, Nov. 6, 1995) is slated for a top diplomatic post if Kerry is elected. James Rubin, Albrights chief propagandist during the Kosovo war, is Kerrys senior foreign policy advisor. General Wesley Clark is also an advisor to Kerry, and tipped to be a candidate for Rumsfelds successor. These gentlemen need no introduction to the Serbian-American community.
Then theres Dr. Ronald D. Asmus, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs under Albright and now Kerrys foreign policy advisor, who says that the unfinished business in the Balkans is the most pressing foreign policy issue and who hailed the decision to wage a war to stop Serbian aggression in Kosovo as the defining moment for NATO. Theres Will Marshall, also Kerrys foreign policy advisor, who enthuses over the exemplary nature of the 1999 U.S.-led intervention in Kosovo a policy which he says was consciously based on a mix of moral values and security interests with the parallel goals of halting a humanitarian tragedy and ensuring NATOs credibility. Theres Philip James, former senior Democratic Party strategist, who says that Abu Ghriab was sickeningly reminiscent of the darkest days of Serbian supremacy in the Balkans. The list is long, but the quotes are all alike.
On his web site Senator Kerry says of the Balkans, We will continue to support the ethnic re-integration of Bosnia and The people of Kosovo must be able to determine their own future. Re-integration of Bosnia is the code for the revision of the Dayton Agreement and the liquidation of the Republika Srpska demanded by the Muslims. Self-determination is the code for Kosovos independence.
Candidate Kerry says, Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who deserves his own special place in hell, but that was not, in itself, a reason to go to war. Six years earlier Senator John Forbes Kerry voted Yes to S Con Res 21 (introduced by Biden, D-DE, the Kosovo Resolution) to authorize the war against Yugoslavia, which was adopted 58-41 on March 23, 1999.
Only a week after Mr. Kerry signed a vacuous note to the Serbian National Federation ending it with Ziveli i mnogaja ljeta! he addressed a message to the Albanian community (July 23, 2004) in which he said he was proud to receive support from Albanians, promised to takcle the final status of Kosovo immediately, and attacked the Bush administration for turning its back on the region:
The people of Kosovo must be able to determine their own future, including how they want to be governed
Continued delay which is all the Bush administration has offered hardens the positions of extremists on all sides
I will need your help in building the support we will need in Congress and with the American people to carry out this historic task
I am proud that we will, together, help make real the dream of Albanians, of Americans, of our allies.
Last May Richard Holbrooke organized a dinner meeting with Albanian-Americans in New York to raise funds and secure Albanian-American votes for Kerry. It was attended by Madeleine Albright, Wesley Clark, James Rubin, and Rep. Eliott Engel (D-NY). They all expressed commitment to the independence of Kosovo. Two months later the KLA chief Hashim Thaci was invited to the Democratic National Convention which in itself was scandalous and on his return to Pristina declared: It was confirmed once again that a Democratic administration would recognize and respect the will of the people of Kosova [sic!] for self-determination.
It is to be feared that an incoming Kerry regime will seek to finish the job in the Balkans by dismembering Serbia, recognizing Kosovos independence, encouraging Montenegros secession, destroying Republika Srpska, and internationalizing the crisis (non-existant for now, but certain to be duly procured) in Vojvodina and the Sanjak.
In short, a Kerry administration would pursue policies that would be destablizing to peace and stability in the Balkans, catastrophic to the interests of the Serbian nation, deeply detrimental to the reputation of the United States, and contrary to all American ideals. We therefore ask you to support President George W. Bush.
FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE SERBIAN-AMERICAN VOTERS LEAGUE:
Dr. Srdja Trifkovic
Author and journalist
Highland Park, IL
Slavko Panovic, President
Serbian National Defense
Chicago, IL
Branko Tupanjac
Enterpreneur
Lake Forest, IL
Dr Jasmina Vujic
Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Berkeley, CA
Lou Milicich
Attorney at Law
Chicago, IL
Michael Mennard. Ph.D.
Foreign Service Officer, Ret.
Washington D.C.
Robert A. Jakovich, CFO
Orbit Industries, Inc
Middleburg Hts, OH
Alexandar D. Malich
Attorney at Law
Pittsburgh, PA
Professor Dragoslav Djordjevic
Monterey, CA
Bill Anderson, Executive VP
DMS Pharmaceutical Group, Inc.
Park Ridge, IL
Mark Brnovich, Atty at Law
Public Policy Researcher
Phoenix, AZ
Bosko Jovanovic, VP Operations
Nordic Foods Inc.
Kansas City KS
Mirko Sikirica, PharmD
Senior Clinical Analyst
Philadelphia PA
Back to Serbian-American Voter's League page.
That one is not over, and the precedent cannot possibly be allowed to stand. I mean, what the hell are we gonna say when the UN comes over here demanding that we hand Texas, California, and the entire American southwest straight over to Mexico on the same perverted basis of ethnicity being everything and things like sovereignty, rightful ownership, and history not meaning anything anymore?
The program for the Balkans contemplated by Kerry and his clintonite advisors, and by the REAL power behind the Big Nothing Kerry, George Soros, amounts to nothing less than genocide against the Serbian people!!!! Nations that indulge in genocide, no matter how powerful, usually do not stand. Remember the fate of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and Ottoman Turkey. If the US under Kerry/Soros commits genocide against the Serbs, America may well share their fate, and take us all down with it.
This is yet another reason NOT to vote for John Kerry, and to do everything we can to re-elect George W. Bush!!!!
Imagine someone who fell in coma in 1988 and got awaken today. Soviet empire collapsed without a shot being fired, Germany unified, Europe planning to include Turkey, Ghadafi cooperate with Americans, majority of American brand name products are "Made in China" and American jobs are running to India. If he needs a drink after hearing this shocking news, he would be surprised- even Jack Daniels sells watered down whiskey.
Things change. That's why it is important to think and plan before it is too late.
The failure to destroy lots or Serbian armor was entirely predictable. Absent open terrain (like a desert), the only way to destroy a tank force wholesale from the air is to make them MOVE. Since the Serbs were not going to be forced to maneuver (Clinton had taken the Ground Offensive option off-the-table) they could make maximum use of camoflage, air defenses & simple decoys. My question is: If Wesley Clark is so smart, how come he couldn't figure this out?
Worse, when the after-action investigation proved very few tanks were destroyed (most were pulled out on trucks and trailers!) Clark covered up the reports, and demanded new ones be written and replaced with new investigators!
The Clintons enabled and emboldened the enemies of freedom, by bombing christians.
Serbs are my Brothers.
The so-called Vietnam anti-war protestors were not against war at all. They just felt we were fighting on the wrong side.
I couldn't phrase it better. The precedent of Kosovo cannot be allowed to stand. The place has to be given back to its rightful owners, who will no doubt boot the Albanians when that happens, as I would in their stead.
Or in Kerry's case, the sitting President was from the wrong Party.
That's one question I would like to see Kerry answer: Why Kosovo and not Iraq?
a very good report.
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