Posted on 02/07/2003 3:38:28 AM PST by JohnHuang2
US President Bill Clinton has vowed to continue bombing Yugoslavia unless President Slobodan Milosevic stops the attacks on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
"If President Milosevic will not make peace, we will limit his ability to make war," he said in a nationally televised address.
Mr Clinton said the military action had three goals:
to demonstrate the seriousness of Nato's opposition to aggression
to deter President Milosevic from further attacks on Kosovo Albanians
to damage Serbia's capacity to wage war
As bombs exploded across Yugoslavia, Mr Clinton told America there was a "moral imperative" to end Serb attacks on Kosovo Albanians.
And he warned the conflict could spread if not stopped now.
"We act to protect thousands of innocent people in Kosovo from a mounting military offensive," he said.
"We act to prevent a wider war, to defuse a powder keg at the heart of Europe, that has exploded twice before in this century with catastrophic results."
Geography lesson
The president, using a pointer and a coloured map to show Americans where Kosovo is, gave the nation a crash course in European history.
Mr Clinton reminded Americans that both Europe and the US had been slow to respond to two previous ethnic slaughters - the Holocaust and Bosnia.
He warned that US forces faced grave risks but indicated the assault would not involve any ground troops.
"I do not intend to put our troops into Kosovo to fight a war," he added.
'Full-blown crisis'
Speaking earlier, Mr Clinton stressed that Nato laid the blame fully on President Milosevic who had ''chosen aggression over peace".
"His forces have intensified their attacks, burning down Kosovo Albanian villages and murdering civilians,'' Mr Clinton said.
''As I speak, more Serb forces are moving into Kosovo and more people are fleeing their homes."
Some 60,000 ethnic Albanians had been driven from their homes in the last five weeks, he said, and 250,000 altogether.
A chance for peace
''After two world wars and a cold war, we and our allies have a chance to leave our children with a Europe that is free, peaceful and stable,'' the president said.
"But we must act now to do that, because if the Balkans once again become a place of brutal killing and massive refugee flights, it will be impossible to achieve.
''I have concluded that the dangers of acting now are clearly outweighed by the risks of failing to act,'' he added.
Mr Clinton said there was a danger that many more innocent people would die, and neighbouring nations would become destabilised if the allies delayed action.
The US must stand with its Nato allies ''against ethnic violence and atrocity", he added.
Friday, February 7, 2003
That PISSANT is directly responsible for 9/11/01, and he has the stone cajones to say this???
I vote we give him an M-16, and force him to lead the charge into Iraq personally. Preferably, without NBC protective gear... If he breathes some rycin or anthrax...?
Well, it'd be one less scum-sucking bottom-feeder democRAT on the government tit...
Great find; I'm surprised that any of the leftist media still has this comparison available.
I'm surprised that any of the leftist media still has this comparison available.
What baffles me is why the heck aren't Republicans throwing this right back in the media's face? Especially in light of all the fixation with what the U.N. will do, what the U.N. will say, what our "allies" will think, etc.
Precisely. The only bottom line that matters -- for Democrats and their marionette presstitutes.
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