Posted on 02/13/2008 6:27:36 PM PST by Bokababe
"He (McCain) did everything that we asked of him, including arming the KLA", said Albanian lobbyist Joe DioGuardi. The Albanians collected one million dollars for the presidential campaign of this senator.
Americans of Albanian heritage collected a million dollars in one evening for the presidential campaign of Republican Senator John McCain, said the Albanian American Civic League yesterday, the lobby group headed by former Congressman Joe DioGuardi. A reception for McCain was held January 22 at the Saint Regis Hotel in Manhattan, and the senator, who is now leading in the runoff for the Republican party candidacy in the November elections, cut his campaign in Florida by one day to attend this gathering.
"Even in 1998 when we had problems with Milosevic, McCain did everything that we asked of him to the benefit of the Albanian people, including arming the KLA", announced DioGuardi. "We are American Albanians and we need a leader who will strengthen this country... We must support John McCain because he did everything we asked of him for Kosovo, from supporting the Kosovo Liberation Army to supporting the independence of Kosovo. Two years ago he spoke in Brussels and said that independence is the only solution", concluded this former congressman who has been fighting for the independence of Kosovo and Metohija for more than twenty years.
He explained that the first thing McCain said to him when he entered the hotel in Manhattan on January 22: "Joe, I saw your people in Michigan, and in South Carolina and in New Hampshire", from which this lobbyist deduced that all Americans of Albanian background will be voting for the senator from Arizona.
DioGuardi and his wife Shirley Cloys-DioGuardi have been friends with McCain for years, and he intervened several times in the Senate on behalf of the Albanians. Because of that, the Albanian American Civic League awarded him the "Balkan Award for Peace" a year and a half ago, and the initiative was the proposed Senate resolution - which McCain wrote - in which thanks is extended to the Albanians for "saving all the Jews who lived in Albania or who sought shelter there during the Nazi Holocaust".
However, even though he is leading in the presidential nomination, John McCain has not yet succeeded in convincing the primary wing of the Republican Party - the conservatives - that he is the right candidate. One of the reasons is that he often spoke and voted against the majority Republicans, as in 1999 when he asked for more intensive air bombing of Serbia.
In April of that year, three weeks after the bombing commenced, he announced that the US is in danger of losing the war to the Serbian Army which has "antiquated machinery" and "absolutely no military air power", if massive strategic air attacks are not initiated. "Attacks on any infrastructure target must not be prevented. We all regret civilian losses, as well as our own, but they cannot be avoided," he said.
During the pre-election campaign in February 2000 at a meeting in Manhatten, John McCain asked for the release of all Albanian prisoners in the prisons of Serbia proper, and a year later he used his influence to ask the administration for an urgent investigation into the killing of the brothers Bitici who were taken from prison and killed in the police training center in Petrovo Selo in eastern Serbia. This February 5 the senator held another meeting in Manhattan and in the public there was a visible Albanian flag.
He will NEVER get my vote.
Just in case any of you were thinking of voting for “Mustapha” McCain in November....
neither did I.
How could the republican sheeple vote for this sorry excuse of a man. Why would he support muslim illegal aliens in Kosovo who after they came into the Christian nation wanted the whole damned country. It is painfully similar to the Mwxican border disaster this man has fostered.
Anyway its over. McCain couldnt be elected dog catcher.
I think I would check that out farther before I came to a conclusion on anything. Most leaders of serbia were pro communism. and they tend to tell a few fibs here and there. clinton was the one who armed kla to fight against serbia , his orders
What next? I hadn’t noticed this, either. The fact is, McCain is such a “maverick” that he does something twisted like this almost every day, so it becomes a dog bites man story.
a s chairman of the IRI you will find pictures of him with a lot of people some good some bad. that is his job and why reagan started IRI
a s chairman of the IRI you will find pictures of him with a lot of people some good some bad. that is his job and why reagan started IRI
a s chairman of the IRI you will find pictures of him with a lot of people some good some bad. that is his job and why reagan started IRI
Now there is.
He also swallowed the Racak hoax whole. Not a good sign...
There were atrocities on both sides, but nothing to justify the bombing campaign, IMO.
He needs to make up for this. You can’t arm Islamofascists and then claim you’re going to win the war against them unless you show more leadership than we’ve seen to date, leadership which acknowledges that there are bad Islamofacscist elements, domestic and foreign, in Kosovo.
Which was, on the whole, ineffectual and made little strategic sense.
Go to International Republican Institute check it out
Yes. Clinton led the charge, but McCain joined right in.
Now I’m wondering whether it was part of the deal he had during clinton’s last years in office, when he agreed to play ball with clinton in return for clinton calling the DEA off Cindy. They were after he for having stolen drugs from her nonprofit employer.
It was an open and shut case, but clinton, ever the politician, made a deal with McCain and called them off.
Interesting. Thanks for the heads up.
The fact that Reagan started this organization doesn’t mean that it is conservative, or even a good influence in the world. I spent some time looking at various articles posted there, and they strike me as naive and liberal in their orientation.
In fact, pretty much like yet another NGO going around making more trouble for the world. Now, I know, that’s a large generalization after only reading half a dozen articles. But there was some pretty disturbing stuff, IMHO.
Your welcome Dems have one also
http://www.ndi.org/
Did you notice articles On elections? IRI started the rock the vote. to get kids out to vote
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.