Posted on 04/08/2003 8:25:59 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
The Clinton Administration had warned it would bomb the Serbia TV station. In fact, on April 8, 1999, Larry King interviewed Miodrag Ilic, a former news anchor for the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation and a former talk show host who has worked on and off of the Serb network for over 20 years:
"Mr. Ilic, can you tell us your reaction to the warning that we have learned tonight from NATO: that unless Serb television stations allow Western broadcast during two to three hour periods everyday, they would be bombed? NATO says Serb stations are used as propaganda. Your comments?"
MIODRAG ILIC, SERBIAN BROADCASTING CORP.: "What would you do, Larry, if you were me? We are professionals, and we perform our duty. You see this, moment, it is exactly 3:02 in the morning in Belgrade. And there are about between 800 and 900 people in this building. There are assistants, journalists, producers, members of the technical staff and so on. And we're performing our duty. We have no chance to do something else, you know?
"But if it happens, then it will be the deadly strike to the democracy, and I think it will be the beginning of the world slavery."
(Excerpt) Read more at balkanpeace.org ...
If you're stupid enough to stay in a war zone, you deserve what you get. The US military is doing its job.
It was on Serb TV, not American TV, that Americans first saw proof of the capture of the three American soldiers, the downing of the F117 stealth bomber, the bombed refugee convoy, civilian apartment houses, schools, monasteries and the evacuation of mothers and babies from a hospital next door to a government building hit with missiles, NATO was clearly losing the propaganda war - not for the hearts of the Serbs but for the hearts of the AMERICANS. ....
While the American public has sort of put out of their minds the bombs that dropped on schools, hospitals, TV stations, electrical power plants, and other civilian targets during the 79 days of bombing Yugoslavia, the Serbs vividly remember and are living with the results. In the past few months a number of top elected officials have been assassinated - some of them, it is reported, by bounty hunters being paid by NATO.
During the bombing war against Yugoslavia, the rate of civilian casualties was quite high. The civilian infrastructure was the primary target of the protracted bombing campaign. Yugoslavia had no weapons of mass destruction, had not attacked America, and posed no threat to any other nation on earth.
There were no protests from the left, no press criticism to speak of, no talk of a quagmire, no international outcry. Essentially, we saved a people who now produce terrorists to wage jihad against us.
On the other hand, we were innundated with graphic pictures of "civilian casualties" in Afghanistan and Iraq, eventhough we have been much more careful to avoid them than we were in Yugoslavia. The street protests and media criticisms of our defensive actions in Afghanistan and Iraq are simply vehicles to attack a Republican administration. Nothing more, and nothing less.
The point is that in the Balkans, The US Military was used by Clinton to
Break up the Balkans to
- Expand NATO reach
- Give Nazis what they wanted in WWII
- Expand the EU that wants militarily muscle
- Divert attention from Lewinsky
- Assist Bin Laden supplied Islamists in taking over Bosnia and Kosovo.
Attack Yugoslavia that
- Had no WMD
- Didn't attack any of its' neighbors.
- Was not involved in 'genocide'
- Did not support 'terrorism'
Forced, by Clinton and NATO to participate in the Balkan 'bombing', the US Military owes it to the country to speak out against that gross misuse of power. Excuses just don't cut it.
Never could figure out if china and bubba conspired to bring down the building. The excuses were particularly lame at the time.
-demonstrated the limits of U.S. technology to Chicoms and North Koreans
-gave the lesson how being an American ally does not pay in the long run. Turkey got the message and stabbed U.S. in the back
-After dragging Presidency through the mud, Clinton managed to drag U.S. Constitution through the mud as well.As Commander in Chief, he forced all those who bombed Serbia after 6oth day to spit on U.S. Constitution as well.
No liberal whitewash will mask the stain Clinton and Madeline Albright made.
You make your points and I'll make mine.
My points were in response to what NativeNewYorker said.
"This is to counter the "Bush is evil because the US is killing journalists" spin.
I'll explain so even you can understand. I hope.
If you're in a war zone you should have the commonsense to realize, you're in dangerous territory. War is hell and journalists should understand the risks involved. "If you're stupid enough to stay in a war zone, you deserve what you get". As for the attacks, the US military is simply doing its job and PresBush isn't evil.
Now it's year 2003 my friend and reporters killed in Bagdad, were mingleling with a fighting enemy and unfortunately got zapped.
The point is, that the two events cannot be linked, they were opposites, apples and oranges.
Confused? LOL Hardly. The real question is, how can you be so stupid. It would appear reading comprehension isn't one of your strong suits. One more time for your feeble mind. This is simple stuff, so listen up. I wasn't responding to the article. I was responding to what NativeNewYorker said in their reply at RE:#1!
Free Republic isn't about any one specific article and I don't have to get on a thread and respond the way you want me to. Get with the program, bucko and stop wasting my time.
You're overthinking this. Generic liberals wouldn't know a Serb from a Slurpie. But they will reflexively support anything done by one of their own, regardless of its context or impact.
Simple question. Who are the stupid ones. The TV station workers that got killed Belgrad, or the reporters in the Bagdad hotel? Or both?
Not only do you have poor reading comprehension skills, you're a poor speller too. I suggest you work on your grammar skills. Carry on.
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