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To: Nam Vet
I know my European history and your comparison to La Raza (!) is a real stretch. I could compare the Serb action in Kosovo similar to Saddam exterminating Kurds or Shiites.

Would you have stood by the Russians and let the Serbs cleanse all of Kosovo? Not an easy answer.
21 posted on 02/25/2008 9:58:37 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: Thrownatbirth
"I know my European history and your comparison to La Raza (!) is a real stretch. I could compare the Serb action in Kosovo similar to Saddam exterminating Kurds or Shiites."

Hardly.

The expulsions of the native Serbs in Kosovo by the Albanians began many years before these wars. Check back to American news stories in the 1980's from reputable news sources, and you will find that it was the Albanians who were continually "the ethnic cleansers" of all non-Albanians in Kosovo. The previous communist government just ignored it while thousands of Serbs & other non-Albanians poured out of Kosovo every year due to Albanian ethnic cleansing of non-Albanians. Even the Bishop who was to become the Serbian Orthodox Patriarch was beaten by Albanian and hospitalized for months, along with a number of nuns raped by Albanians. Serbs had finally had enough of a foreign minority to whom they had offered sanctuary from Albania's ruthless leaders, taking over the province and cruelly repressing the indigenous peoples. This frustration is how Milosevic came to power in the first place.

Yes, Kosovo autonomy was revoked, because "autonomy" had turned Kosovo into a cruel and lawless place -- and into "a little Albania" on Serbian soil. And yes, Milosevic was heavy-handed in suppressing a growing Albanian insurgency for secession, but there was no "genocide of Kosovars". There was a suppression of an armed insurgency which any leader of any country would have been forced to try and accomplish given the circumstances. Milosevic's tactics may have been heavyhanded, but he was responding to a problem that already existed, not creating a new one.

Kosovo is not Bosnia.

26 posted on 02/25/2008 11:13:45 AM PST by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Thrownatbirth
I see you swallowed the propaganda hook, line and sinker. Also, throughout history Kosovo was a Christian-Serb province. The Albanian muzzies were the aggressors throughout. Ethnic cleansing ????? Look who have been driven out, one way or another. Christian churches and monestaries as old as 1200-1400 years have been totally razed by the Albanians. Ever heard of the "Greater Albania" idea??? I believe Macedonia and part of Greece are also part of the 'plan'. That idea has been around longer than you or I, as I recall. I'm surprised you haven't heard of it before.

Nam Vet

30 posted on 02/25/2008 12:22:06 PM PST by Nam Vet (I'd rather be waterboarded than vote for John McCain.)
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