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To: Bokababe
I never stated that they were paid by those documentary makers. Feel free to look up MacKenzie and SerbNet when you have some free time. That's just for starters.

Besides which, if you are honest, you know that none of these people could ever have been paid enough by American Serbs to endure the attacks on their reputations and character that they have suffered because of their refusal to toe the "anti-Serb party line". The only reason anyone would suffer the way that all of them have, endure it and keep pushing forward is because what they are saying is the truth!

Serbian propaganda isn't the truth. For instance, recall that MacKenzie said that it'd take 500,000 soldiers to stop the war in Bosnia. Well, Radovan Karadzic himself stated in "Death of Yugoslavia" that it would have only taken 5,000 soldiers in Zvornik and 5,000 soldiers in the Corridor to end the war. Nevertheless, MacKenzie did a good job telling the world that a half million were needed.

97 posted on 04/06/2008 9:02:33 PM PDT by Diocletian
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To: Diocletian
"I never stated that they were paid by those documentary makers. Feel free to look up MacKenzie and SerbNet when you have some free time."

I know who SerbNet is -- they are a group of Americans of Serbian descent in the Chicago area. If they paid MacKenzie for a speaking tour, so what? Americans had a right to hear the other side of this after the enormous amount of propaganda they had been subjected to by the the other side. Writer Roy Gutman made a big deal of this "SerbNet connection", because MacKenzie was challenging a version of the war that would have destroyed Gutman's phony "career accomplishments" for writing "award-winning stories" that had no basis in fact.

MacKenzie had already published a book on his experiences in Bosnia, and wasn't saying anything that he hadn't already said in his book.

"For instance, recall that MacKenzie said that it'd take 500,000 soldiers to stop the war in Bosnia. Well, Radovan Karadzic himself stated in "Death of Yugoslavia" that it would have only taken 5,000 soldiers in Zvornik and 5,000 soldiers in the Corridor to end the war."

Again, that's dishonest. There is a difference in timing between those two opinions on the who, what where and when it would have taken to end it.

I am surprised that you didn't bring up the "rape & murder of Muslim women allegations" against MacKenzie from which he was ultimately CLEARED --virtually all of which started circulating in the US AFTER MacKenzie testified before Congress that "the US should not get involved in the Balkans". NYT writer, John Burns, who had won a shared Pulitzer with Gutman for the phony Boris Herak story (the same source for the rape & murder allegations against MacKenzie) published these allegations as "fact", because his career was built on the same "sand" as the MacKenzie allegations.

99 posted on 04/07/2008 10:42:51 AM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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