[lugsoul]

Southack, we've been down this road before, but facts are your friend. Not even Sir Michael Jackson, the butcher of Derry, claims that Clark ordered his to "open fire" on Russian troops. You know full well that the order that led to the "WWIII" exchange was for his men to occupy the runways before the Russian troops could do so to prevent Russian transports from landing.

People can debate the foolishness of that order all they want. But it is false to claim that Clark gave an order to open fire, and I'm sure you know that.

[Southack]

"You know full well that the order that led to the "WWIII" exchange was for his men to occupy the runways before the Russian troops could do so to prevent Russian transports from landing."

No, the Russian paratroopers were already there:

"In Waging Modern War, General Clark wrote about his fury upon learning that Russian peacekeepers had entered the airport at Pristina, Kosovo, before British or American forces. In the article "The guy who almost started World War III," (Aug. 3, 1999), The Guardian (U.K.) wrote, "No sooner are we told by Britain's top generals that the Russians played a crucial role in ending the West's war against Yugoslavia than we learn that if NATO's supreme commander, the American General Wesley Clark, had had his way, British paratroopers would have stormed Pristina airport, threatening to unleash the most frightening crisis with Moscow since the end of the Cold War." "I'm not going to start the third world war for you," General Sir Mike Jackson, commander of the international KFOR peacekeeping force, is reported to have told Gen. Clark " http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jatras12.html

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