Posted on 12/16/2010 6:58:01 AM PST by Ravnagora
Far from being Tony Blair's 'good' war, the assault on Yugoslavia was as wrong as the invasion of Iraq
'The United States of America and the Kosovo Liberation Army stand for the same human values and principles ... Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American values." So declared the neocon US senator (and current foe of WikiLeaks) Joseph Lieberman back in 1999 at the height of the US-led military intervention against Slobodan Miloševic's Yugoslavia.
It would be interesting to hear what Senator Lieberman makes of the report of the Council of Europe – Europe's premier human rights watchdog – on his favourite band of freedom fighters. The report, which cites FBI and other intelligence sources, details horrific rights abuses it claims have been carried out by the KLA, the west's allies in the war against Yugoslavia 11 years ago.
The council claims that civilians – Serbian and non-KLA-supporting Kosovan Albanians detained by the KLA in the 1999 hostilities – were shot in northern Albania and their kidneys extracted and sold on the black market. It names Hashim Thaçi, the former leader of the KLA and Kosovo's prime minister, as the boss of a "mafia-like" group engaged in criminal activity – including heroin trading – since before the 1999 war. The report is a damning indictment not only of the KLA but also of western policy. And it also gives lie to the fiction that Nato's war with Yugoslavia was, in Tony Blair's words, "a battle between good and evil; between civilisation and barbarity; between democracy and dictatorship".
It was a fiction many on the liberal left bought into.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
>>what way were the Serbs “rotten people”?
Essentially because our politicians, diplomats and associated media sycophants drummed it into our heads willynilly nonstop for years framing the issue without any historical context and ignoring the supply chain from Turkey, Iran and the Saudis and other oil fiefdoms, even Pakistan, and with no reference the enshrining of jihad in the Balkans.
Yeah, the Serbs were so rotten to fight against the fascists and the communists while finding time to save 500 US airman.
Yeah, damn those Serbs. </saracasm>
Isn’t the word “besmirch” a derivative of Bismarck?
Serbs? A rotten people?!!??
Well then I guess so are all freedom loving, cultured, ancient, Christian people of the world.
Get your facts straight before you post absurdities.
Completely different set of reasons, but I agree with this part, "We should have stayed out of it".
....Fighting with the KLA to take Serb land and give it to Muslim squatters was one of the sorriest chapters in U.S. history and will come back to haunt us in the future....
It already HAS come back to haunt us!!!!!
Think of all that has happened to our country (and to Europe) since that evil anti-Christian, globalist/muslim war in the Balkans. Start with 9/11, and end with the election of pro-muslim extremist Barack Hussein Abdullah obama and its many horrible consequences.
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