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To: 1rudeboy

No, she’s pointing out some facts about his accusers.


11 posted on 03/09/2010 8:20:39 PM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: FormerLib

Right, she’s blowing smoke.


13 posted on 03/09/2010 8:22:45 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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I am currently reading ‘The Krajina Chronicle’ by Srdja Trifkovic. It is an excellent, if slightly challenging read due to all of the Slavic names.

However, it chronicles the history of the Serbs from the very beginning. They are Eastern Orthodox and were a free people who were the warrior barrier between the Ottoman Empire and the heart of Europe.

The Austrian Hapsburgs invited them over to their side of the border and set them up w/o tax obligation and offered religious freedom in exchange for a virtual lifetime [age 16-60] of their men.

These people have been fighting a very old war for a very long time.

The Pig Wars in the early 20th c. may well have been the spark that started WWI as Austria/Hungary decided to lower the amount paid for pork. The Serbs had other ideas and sold it to the Germans and were prospering- which had been hard to do when the men were constantly being sent off to fight wars beyond the initial ‘Maginot’ line in the Balkans.

During the Clinton administration, when fighting broke out, initial news stories were pro-Serb. Then the talking points memo came out and the MSM message changed. I remember being very confused and my husband also heard the same conflicting message.

No FR to check for accuracy back then.

So Clinton backed his side, bombed the crap out of the Serbs [who STILL held out for an amazingly long time] and the rest is history.


44 posted on 03/10/2010 12:55:35 AM PST by FreeStateYank (I want my country and constitution back, now!)
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