Meanwhile, back here on Planet Earth, I'm still waiting for the U.S. and the UN to get on their soapboxes and DEMAND an apology from the Croatian government they openly supported and ARMED during the '92-'95 civil war for the underreported (due to an anti-Serb agenda) and equally heinous ethnic cleansing of the Serbs from the Republic of Krajina on May 1, 1995. Thousands of Serb civilians were killed and hundreds of thousands were forced to flee for their lives during this horror, dubbed "Operation Flash" by the Croat government.
I'm sure anyday now the UN will try In Absentium the late Croatian dictator Franco Tudjman for his brutal actions in Krajina. Uh, huh. That'll happen right after hell freezes over and before a few dunderheads on this thread can get over their rabid hatred of the Serbian people and see that most every action we took in the former Yugoslavia in the '90's was a blunder.
At least noone brought up the national disgrace we call the Kosovo War, when we (meaning Klintoon) bombed and killed 2,100 civilians of Christian Serbia for the benefit of the infamous Islamo-Fascist terrorist organization known as the KLA.
That sounds real useful--what sentence do you propose for a man who's been dead for 5 years?
we (meaning Klintoon) bombed and killed 2,100 civilians of Christian Serbia
No, "we" means the USA with funding provided by by Congress and moral backing from such as Governor Bush of Texas who backed the Kosovo intervention, but castigated Clinton for taking ground troops off the table.
And the total Yugoslav civilian casualties according to the study conducted by the decidedly not-sympathetic-to-the-USA Human Rights Watch were about 500. Here are some quotes from their study (Conducted with cooperation from Serbian authorities):
"Despite precautions, including the use of a higher percentage of precision-guided munitions than in any other major conflict in history, civilian casualties occurred. Human Rights Watch has conducted a thorough investigation of civilian deaths as a result of NATO action. On the basis of this investigation, Human Rights Watch has found that there were ninety separate incidents involving civilian deaths during the seventy-eight day bombing campaign. Some 500 Yugoslav civilians are known to have died in these incidents."
And over half of the casualties occurred in Kosovo, meaning as many as half of the civilian dead were of Albanian ethnicity, not Serbian.
"Attacks in Kosovo overall were more deadly-a third of the incidents account for more than half of the deaths...between 278 and 317 of the dead-between 56 and 60 percent of the total number of deaths-were in Kosovo. In Serbia, 201 civilians were killed (five in Vojvodina) and eight died in Montenegro"
BUSH: I supported the U.S. involvement in Kosovo, because I was afraid that the thug Mr. Milosevic would destabilize NATO. I felt it was in our strategic interest -- I thought it was in our strategic interest to become involved. I did not appreciate what the president did when he took ground troops off the table. I thought that was a -- I cannot imagine a commander-in-chief saying to an enemy, we're not going to use the full force of the United States to achieve an objective.