Milosevic trial nears fourth year

Pittsburgh post-gazette ^ | October 19, 2005

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[GSlob]

Pox on all of them.

[A. Pole]

Milisovic is not trash, at least no more than most of modern European politicians. He has been villified and stimgmatized together with other Serbs by Stuermer style hate campaign in mass media. But that the brainwashed masses see him that way it does not make him a trash or an evil man.

The reason why this tribubal has problems with convicting him (it has no capacity for honest judging him) is that collective hypnosis is hard to blend with the formal judicial process (even if is manipulted by the powers in control). Nazis learned that at their dismay at the infamous Reichstag Fire show trial.

[montyspython]

Amen to that brother.

[montyspython]

LOL!!!!

[montyspython]

"This trash should be just killed"

As stated before, the Serbs would have done this a long time ago. Tudjman and Izetbegovic are the trash that got off easy.

[montyspython]

[ma bell]

hopboy refuses to answer a simple question, 'were you ever wrong with your information". That tells you something right there to the everyday Readers Digest reader! He's a liar and I am and always have been right with all my information. Hence his refusal to engage me head-on with dialogue. His favorite is to downright name-calling and belittling, signs of a beaten man.

Oh well, Kosovo is getting worse everyday and he doesn't even admit that the KLA mafia are the true controllers of the UNMIK office.

[montyspython]

"Oh well, Kosovo is getting worse everyday and he doesn't even admit that the KLA mafia are the true controllers of the UNMIK office."

That admission would put a chink in his rusted armor because Hoplite's bloated ego prevents him from being rational as well as truthful.

[ma bell]

even i will admit when i am wrong or not completely correct with my information. Popeyes Chicken grease must have spilled onto his keyboards and fried it... no pun intended (as to reasons for his nonreply, to date)

[mark502inf]

First and foremost he was, and still is, a defender of Christianity

Somebody who is somewhat more of an authority on the subject than you disagrees:

"Patriarch Pavle, Head of Serbian Orthodox Church, said to Bosnian weekly “Slobodna Bosna” (Free Bosnia) that Milosevic is no Christian "

[mark502inf]

Stingy, Under Milosevic, the Serbs fought four wars and two of their opponents were predominantly Christians--the Slovenes and the Croats. And a potential fifth war against largely Christian Macedonia was forestalled by the the first US troop deployment in the Balkans--a battalion into Macedonia as part of UNPROFOR in 1993(iirc).

Also of note, before you further denigrate Christianity by associating it with Milosevic, Slobo is charged with more counts of war crimes against the Christian Croats than he is against any other group or nationality in the Balkans.

[ma bell]

he was not a supporter of the Serbian Church, never!

mark, FRY had no designs to ever "fight" Macedonia, that was a propoganda ploy by outside forces.

[montyspython]

Oh he's a Christian, when the purpose suits him.

Most people begin to pray to God only when they're in a pickle.

[montyspython]

"And a potential fifth war against largely Christian Macedonia was forestalled by the the first US troop deployment in the Balkans"

This is pure bullshit.

[mark502inf]

ME: "And a potential fifth war against largely Christian Macedonia was forestalled by the the first US troop deployment in the Balkans"

YOU: This is pure bullshit.

Read this:

Task Force Sabre, originally known as Task Force Able Sentry (TFAS), consisted of approximately 620 soldiers and a US helicopter detachment located at Camp Able Sentry. TFAS was the US Army's task force attached to the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP) in the Former Yugoslavia Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). UNPREDEP was originally established in July 1993, to monitor and report activity along the FYROM-Serbia border area that could undermine confidence and stability in the region or threaten the territory of FYROM.

OK, let's recap. U.S. Troops sent to Macedonia to patrol the "FYROM-Serbia border area" to deter Serbia from "threaten[ing] the territory of FYROM".

You're wrong, monty, but granted this was a pretty obscure deployment. About the only thing remembered nowadays about this first deployment of the U.S. Army into the Balkans was how one of the soldiers refused to wear the UN blue beret and was court-martialed.

[montyspython]

Yugoslavia had no plans to go into Macedonia pal, your deployment didn't do anything but cost taxpayer money.

[mark502inf]

Yugoslavia had no plans to go into Macedonia

I think you mean Serbia and, well, South Serbia. :-)

Anyways, the President of Macedonia certainly thought he had a problem with Serbia as he is the one who requested the deployment. Further, the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP) was approved by the UNSC to include the problematical Chinese and Slavic big brother Russia. ("Preventive Deployment", get it?)

So in spite of your protestations of Serb innocence, all sorts of people from all sorts of countries thought differently. Do you think maybe the ongoing Serb attacks and ethnic cleansing of their Croat and Bosnian neighbors to the north had something to do with it?

[Pantagruel]

Gligorov felt threatened by some Serb ultranationalist's statements, not Milosevic as he was/is no nationalist (let alone ultranationalist). I'll give you an example:In the late 90's, the EU offered 5.5 bln $ and special staus in the EU if the leaders of YU Republics agreed to preserve Yugoslavia in any form. Tudjman's response was that he couldn't abandon -- not even for billions and billions of dollars-- the "thousand year's long dream" of the renewal of Croatian State that "now keeps feeding the entire Croatian people". Milosevic's response was : "as I repeatedly stated in the past, I support the idea of strong federation or modern federation -- or nothing".