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.
LLS
Is this Soros bunch?
I think that the word, “illegal alien” should give you a clue.
Oh he has his fans and they are just as rabid in their support of him as the clinton worshipers are for Clinton.
I think that the word, “illegal alien” should give you a clue.
Oh he has his fans and they are just as rabid in their support of him as the clinton worshipers are for Clinton.
IRI was instrumental in ending the cold war
McCrazy was an early supporter of GROUND TROOPS in Kosovo.
All in an undeclared war, in which Clinton violated the War
Powers Act.
The McCain Albanian connection has been there for a long time http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38b698747d0a.htm McCain made his national name on backing the 1999 NATO Bombing on behalf of the Albanian KLA http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/mccain040799.htm
No one outside of Arizona really knew his name before that.
I gave mccain heck about his illegal immigration bill. He responded to me and made me understand what he was trying to do. He was trying to get congress to debate this huge issue. Something has to be done there are so many here now. But it looks like states are doing a good job one by one they are handling that problem and its working
PS
My response to his illegal immigration bill was here on freepers.when someone captured web page from his site.
See the second paragraph in post # 24.
June 6,1991
Hon. Robert Dole
141 Hart Building
Washington D.C. 20510
Dear Senator Dole,
On behalf of over 10 million Albanians around the world and especially the hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians here in America, I want you to know how deeply we appreciate all you are doing for Kosova. Because of your personal efforts and legislative initiatives, the United States policy towards a disintegrating Yugoslavia has now taken a positive turn for Albanians and other nationalities seeking democracy in Yugoslavia.
Yet, in spite of the constitutional crisis instigated by the Serbian communist regime, the continuing pattern of gross human rights violations against the Albanians in Rosova and even in the face of your recent admonitions to the Administration - to follow the guidelines in existing law - the secretary of State deoided to resume aid to Yugoslavia in what looks like a clear violation of the spirit and letter of the Nickles Amendment to the Forein Assistance Act. Even though Mr. Baker sternly rebuked the Serbian authorities for their repressive measures against the Albanian people of Kosova and said that the Republic of Serbia would be penalized under the Act, the resumption of aid to even democratic Croatia and Slovonia right now we believe would seriously injure the democratic aspiration. of the Kosovars. Let me explain.
Many scholars and political observers agree with the concept of rewarding only those Republics that have held free and fair elections and that promote democratic change. They agree that it is politically and morally correct because it would penalize the intransigent communist Republics of Serbia and Montenegro and reward the others. In effect the secretary of state has adopted the spirit of your bill by ?certifying? under the trickles amendment while at the same time ? penalizing? serbia. while these current events appear to favor the Albanians in Kosova, the problem for them is still very complicated and the future security of Kosova is far from certain. Kosova has not been officially recognized as a Reublic (even by Croatia),. is currently occupied by Serbian special forces and for all practical purposes is treated merely as a part of Serbia. As things stand now, even our assistance (speaking hypothetically) to a potentially democratic Serbia would again exclude Albanians in Kosova, since it has been historically demonstrated that Serbia does not want to see the full development of Kosova.
Senator, Albanians in Yugoslavia, three million of them, are caught in a very difficult dilemma. While they would even wish to set Croatia and Slovenia as sovereign jurisdictions, because such sovereignty would protect these two northern Republics from Serbian interference and possible domination, a loosely knit Yugoslavia (or dissolved Yugoslavia) that would result would leave Albanians alone at the mercy of Serbia with no balancing support from Croatia and Slovenia. We have concluded, for these reasons, that barring any unexpected developments in Yugoslavia which improve the position of the Albanian population there, it is still in the interest of the Albanians to see a federated Yugoslavia, democratic and responsive to all her peoples? needs and interests. In such a situation, free and fair elections should inevitably produce the establishment of a ?Republic of Kosova?, freely arrived at and legally recognized as en equal and independent unit within the framework of a federal Yugoslavia. Such a development would place Kosova on the earns rooting with the other Republics.
At the same time, we believe that the Bush Administration (at least for now) should not respond to appeals for direct aid to democratic Croatia and Slovenia. If such aid were granted, we would lose all leverage to improve the plight of the Albanians, who would be left to the mercies of their Serbian overlords. For their part, the Croatians and Slovenians must demand that Kosova be given Republic status within Yugoslavia, so that the democratic voice of the Albanian Kosovars can be added to their own in the nations councils, only in this way will the territorial integrity of the Yugoslav state be preserved, and the cause of democracy and human rights advanced in accordance with Bush Administration goals.
Therefore, we hope that you would keep the plight of Kosova alive with your colleagues in the senate and urge the Administration to hold of f on all aid to Yugoslavia. while urging the Yugoslav Republics to put aside ethnic animosity and work toward true democratization. In view of the life and death nature of the situation in Kosova and all of Yugoslavia we implore your assistance.
Senator, for the Albanian people of yugoslavia and around the world, ? these are the times that try mens souls.? It was over two hundred years ago that Thomas Paine used these words to rally the American Colonies against the tyranny of King George III. Those words are no less significant today in light of the barbaric tyranny of the serbian communist inder, Slobodan Milosevic We desperately need your help in crafting a solution that? would ensure the Physical security of the Albanians in Yugoslavia and the political, economic and cultural integrity of their beloved ancestral homeland, Kosova.
Sincerely,
Joseph J. Dioguardi
President
Albanian American Civic League
I'm beginning to wonder whether the election of a murtad fitri as POTUS, and the certain reaction from the feverswamps of Islam, at last concentrating the collective mind of the left on the danger posed by the most violent and retrograde varieties of Mohammedanism, might actually be the best we could hope for from this election.
Muslim Albanian urinating on the remains of St George's Church while his friend takes his picture. This is what McCain made his national career on!
no yitbos
Obviously, you McSwine trolls are not too sharp on history; They were pro-Serbia.
“I gave mccain heck about his illegal immigration bill. He responded to me and made me understand what he was trying to do. He was trying to get congress to debate this huge issue.”
ROFLMAO! Well, McCain can be humorous.
Kids shouldn't vote. The voting age should be 40.
"neither did I."
I suspect we'll be learning at least one new thing a week if not per day about what McCain has done to line his pockets for the past 25 yrs. It ain't gonna be pretty since Soros' $ is the tip of the iceberg!
“Even Mr. McCain, who is pushing hard for the use of ground troops, acknowledges that bombing ought to be given more time.”
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05E6DB1F38F930A25757C0A96F958260
Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, insists the United States should be preparing its troops for a ground war in case that option became necessary.McCain was one of a number of members of Congress travelling to Brussels and Aviano, Italy with Defense Secretary William Cohen in the next three days to meet top NATO leaders and visit U.S. forces involved in the operations.
http://www.alb-net.com/kcc/index24-1.htm
The scary thing about a McCain presidency is that we may again be bombing Serbia
Serbia has just elected a very pro-Serbian govt who wants to keep Kosovo at any cost
Kosovo is the ancient homeland of the Serbs. This means quite a bit to them
Also, not only McCain may be helping Islamofascists, he will hurt further...already strained relations w Russia. Russia and Serbia are cultural and religious cousins...
McCain foreign policy could be as scary as Obama/Hillary
Yes, as we learned during the clinton incursion, Russians think of the Serbs as their Slavic “Little Brothers.”
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