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To: lugsoul
"General Clark said he believed it was ''an appropriate course of action''. But the plan was again vetoed by Britain."

The keyword is "again" vetoed.

Clark's original order was for Jackson to storm the Russian positions at the Pristina airport, just as I said above.

Clark's second *plan* was to block the Pristina runway from Russia resupplies, something that was merely discussed and not implemented.

What you've tried to do, dishonestly, has been to first claim that Jackson's men were told to occupy an empty airport (not true, the Russian paratroopers were already there), and then to later claim that the Russians were inside buildings and were not deployed around the runway itself. Such historical revisionism won't cut it.

General Jackson went so far as to tell Clark that he wasn't going to start World War Three for him. The situation was tense, and Clark's original order to storm the airport could have led to a nuclear exchange.

5 Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires

552 posted on 08/03/2004 3:13:27 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
Untrue. The original order was given in the course of a "race to the airport." When the Russians won that race, Clark wanted to take the airfield.

Of course, even your dissembling in this post does not support your false claim that Clark ordered anyone to "open fire" on Russians.

It seems apparent that you are less interested in the facts of the exchange than your characterization of the exchange.

559 posted on 08/03/2004 3:16:02 PM PDT by lugsoul (Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside.)
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