That's worth repeating, but we've been saying here on FR since Pres. Clinton's 1999 war.
Ummm...when did this happen? The President did not seek a declaration of war from Congress.
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Good article. Going to read it again tomorrow when I'm actually awake.
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The #1 reason for the RATS unhappiness is that they are not in charge. They bigtime love a war IF they can run the show.
Wading deeper into the rat mentality of sympathizing for our enemies...
That's worth repeating, but we've been saying here on FR since Pres. Clinton's 1999 war.
It doesn't explain why, if they think America spreading peace and freedom and democracy is so bad, why they supported the liberation of Kosovo.
Islamofascism is the only popular (if I can use that term) totalitarian movement so after the fall of communism the leftists have had to gravitate towards this new fascism. Almost anything the Islamists do is good just like almost anything the Soviet Union did was good according to the left. There were crimes committed by both Christians and Muslims in the Balkans, but intervention there mainly helped the Isamic radicals and this area became a training ground for terrorists. That is the only reason the left wanted to intervene in the Balkans in the first place, not to help innocent people (Muslim or Christian) who were being attacked, but to strengthen the Islamic radicals there.
This is Slobodan Milosevic, an innocent man being tried by a so-called International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague, Holland, presumably for attempting to deport (or ethnically cleanse) albanian islammites from a Serbian province for barbaric conduct over a protracted period of time.
One assumes that the Dutch are practicing to try themselves for ethnic cleansing and genocide, since they themselves are now beginning to expell muslims from their own country, also for barbaric conduct over a protracted period of time.
One can only assume that barbaric conduct over protracted periods of time is a sort of an islammite specialty.
Now, one way to prevent yourself from being charged with hypocricy, is to start torturing people. For the same reason that nobody would ever charge Al Capone with shoplifting, nobody would ever charge somebody like Adolf Eichman or Joseph Mengele with hypocrisy.
Now, in an American courtroom, that would be the instantaneous end of the trial and the prosecutor's career (doing anything other than washing dishes in the courtroom cafeteria) right there.
Thus there should be a question of how Americans would want to be associated with this process even before you consider the fact that Americans soundly reject the entire premise of the ICC and have gone as far as to pass a law requiring the president of the United States to use military force to rescue any American being held by that "tribunal". In other words, Holland would face the armed might of the United States military were it to try to do to any American what it is doing to Milosevic.
My advice to the Dutch: Don't sit around trying to guess whether or not that "Hague Invasion Act" is real or some sort of a joke; go ahead, try it. Kidnap some American soldier or political official and put him on trial for some sort of war crime charge in the Hague. I can't think of anything I'd have more fun watching than that, other than having the spetznaz rescue Slobodan Milosevic of course.
There might still be time to hand Kosovo back over to its rightful owners before the UN steps in demanding that we hand Texas and California over to Vincente Fox and the Atzlan crowd on the same perverted logic and basis.
"Muslims are being killed in Bosnia Herzegovina and this government has tried to demonstrate to the Muslim world that we care about them and we're willing to do something about it."
Translation:
Both the Clinton administration and the previous Bush (89-93) administration had to prove that they were not anti-Muslim, beginning with former Acting Secretary of State, Lawrence Eagleburger, who made it clear that a US goal in Bosnia was to placate the Muslim world. Eagleburger characterized the US government's pro-Muslim position in Bosnia as a counter to the Muslim world's perception of an anti-Muslim position regarding Iraq -- and if we had to destroy a small Orthodox Christian nation in the process, it was a small price to pay.
There are other reasons why Clinton and his gangsters went to war against the Christian Serbs that include:
1. Clinton couldn't allow this pipsqueak of a nation to defy the New World Order.
2. To draw attention away from this wag-the-dog president regarding the Monica Lewinsky seduction, a woman young enough to be his daughter.
3. NATO needed a new mission since the demise of the Soviet Union.
And I'm sure others can add more....
We didn't bomb the Serbs in '99 to remove Slobodan Milosevic from power, we bombed them to remove Slobodan Milosevic's forces from Kosovo, where they were acting like murderous SOB's.
When it finally came time to remove Slobodan Milosevic from power, we utilized economic and diplomatic means, being trade sanctions and our support of OTPOR in the Serbian elections of 2000, with follow on pressure from the current President's administration ensuring that he was transferred to the ICTY in the Hague to face the consequences of his actions. Serbia still to this day is unequal to the task of dealing with events from Milosevic's reign, which explains why the current President has maintained Serbia's status as a pariah nation. And so it shall be until Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic are brought to justice.
It's simply not a Democrat/Republican issue, whatever those attempting to misrepresent it may say - it is worth remembering that Bob Dole was the Republican Presidential candidate in 1996, and it would be a hard case to make that he would have granted Milosevic as much leeway over Kosovo that Clinton did.
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Though the democrats supported Clintons effortst...the far left did not support the war in Kosovo etc. Groups like International ANSWER, protested but did not receive wide spread support.
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A little FReeper background thread on Bob Dole and the reasons behind the breakup of Yugoslavia leading to the Balkan conflict.