"Where were the WMD!?!??!??!? (Wounded and Mass Dead)...I seem to recall talk of Serbians "Ethnic Cleansing" and "Mass Graves" as a justification for our bombing them into the ground, yet the mass graves never were found."
Yes...and the Racak Massacre, which Clinton used as a predicate for hostilities. It's amazing that a media that has skepticism and sees deceit within the Bush administration over Iraq, never saw any of these attributes with Clinton. On the contrary, reporters like Christian Amanpour and CNN were more than happy to carry the water for this WH in the build-up for that war.
The hypocrisy is astounding when you consider that Saddam was guilty of ten-times the atrocities that Slobo supposedly committed. And yet, those same humanitarian reasons for support of the war in Kosovo were suddenly absent when it came to dealing with Saddam. Astounding when you also consider the actual mass-graves being unearthered in Iraq, while those in Kosovo never quite materialized...at least at the level we were told.
These two conflicts have always been great examples of liberal (media) hypocrisy and bias. For all their claims of Geneva Convention violations in Iraq, there was a total ignorance of these violations in Kosovo. From the targeting of public utilities, to commuter train railways to even the Serbian media (SerbTv), Kosovo was one BIG Geneva violation.
While John Kerry lamented the "closing" of Al-Sadr's newspaper in Iraq...as an infringement on free-speech (despite Sadr's calls for the murder of US Soldiers) Kerry had nothing to say when NATO/US forces destroyed SerbTV, killing at least 20 civilians....and 10 other private radio/TV stations and 36 transmitters.
Also missing from this outrage was our own media, that while defending the rights of all journalists in Iraq (including the enemy), had nothing to say about those journalists and media outlets intentionally targeted in Serbia. On the contrary, Baghdad Bob practically became a cult hero as he was allowed unfettered access to the airwaves.
One of the biggest hypocricies I witnessed was listening to General Wesley Clark comment on possible Geneva Vioaltions by our soldiers in Iraq. This was amazing when you consider that Clark, himself, had an indictment issued against him for war crimes (from some foreign lawyers) in violation of the Geneva Convention. Yet, he is paraded out by the liberal media to comment on Iraq, when similar charges have been levied against him in Kosovo. From body-counts and civilian casualties to the long-term impact of the war in Serbia/Kosovo, the media completely ignored all of these issues in comparison to how they treated Iraq.