Posted on 09/08/2013 7:53:14 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Singer James Blunt has told the BBC how he refused an order to attack Russian troops when he was a British soldier in Kosovo.Blunt said he was willing to risk a court martial by rejecting the order from a US General.
But he was backed by British Gen Sir Mike Jackson, who said: "I'm not going to have my soldiers be responsible for starting World War III."
Blunt was ordered to seize an airfield, but the Russians had got there first.
In an interview with BBC Radio 5 live, broadcast on Sunday, he said: "I was given the direct command to overpower the 200 or so Russians who were there.
"I was the lead officer with my troop of men behind us...
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Imagine outbreak of WW3, all because of the “Ethnic Albanians” of Kosovo.
RIDICULOUS. Was NEVAR our bees’ wax.
Good for this Brit..!
Will there be anyone like him in Syria?
Wesley Clark (Weasely Clerk) has always been an ass.
I had a feeling it was him! Does he still infest the area of Little Rock, Ark?
The story the U.S. Press wasn’t allowed to cover, because it might make a Democrat Hero President look bad.
Even if he prevented WWIII, I still hold him responsible for inflicting the world with his horrible hit song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oofSnsGkops
The "whole story" (at link) didn't turn out quite the way the headlines implied...the Brit. soldier actually was the "hero" here, and not just yakking back about "speaking truth to power", facing off against the war-mongering American general, and etc....good for him!!
Oh brothr. How many times have out “leaders” almost started WW3 that we never heard about?
He may only have delayed it by fourteen years.
He's A Democrat!
We devastated the environment, bombed the Chinese embassy, came very close to engaging in armed combat against Russian forces, and in general, pursued a horrific and inhumane strategy to rain misery on the civilian population of Belgrade in order to pressure Milosevic into surrendering.
Why did we do all that? The US did not even have an arguable interest in the Balkans, and no one ever tried to claim that Serbia represented any kind of threat to our nation or our interests.
But for months the Clinton administration had told us that Milosevic was waging a vicious genocide against Albanian Muslims, and needed to be stopped. The New York Times called it a “humanitarian war.” In March 1999 – the same month that the bombing started – Clinton’s State Department publicly suggested that as many as 500,000 Albanian Kosovars had been murdered by Milosevic’s regime. In May of that year, as the bombing campaign was drawing to a close, Secretary of Defense William Cohen lowered that estimate 100,000.
Five years after the bombing, after all the forensic investigations had been completed, the prosecutors at Milosevic’s “War Crimes” trial in the Hague were barely been able to document a questionable figure of perhaps 5,000 “bodies and body parts.” During the war, the American people were told that Kosovo was full of mass graves filled with the bodies of murdered Albanian Muslims. But none were ever found.
Maybe he’ll cut a tune with Roger Waters; The Ballad of James Blunt.
Bump
Because they kept telling us that civilian misery didn't matter to Milosevic, which would make that a weird strategy
The term was “ethnic cleansing”,in other words : reversing multi-cultural ism.
That was the same State Department that said this.
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