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To: wideawake
"Those of us in the real world recognize that both sides had grievances and both sides committed atrocities and that no one in the Balkans' hands are clean."

The U.S. supported the old troublemakers (those with a history of spreading hate who had been jailed during Yugoslavia's existance - long before Milosevic came to power.)

Even though a more moderate Muslim, Fikret Abdic, garnered more votes in Bosnia, he was somehow swept asside and it was maneuvered to have Izetbegovic becoming the leader. And the unquestioned acceptance and praise for him by the west shows that he was who they wanted.

The west chose a recipe for breakup and purposely. The whining about atrocities against specific groups was only to further their agenda.

133 posted on 06/28/2006 9:05:33 AM PDT by joan
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To: joan
The west chose a recipe for breakup and purposely.

Ah, yes - the monolithic, evil west. Quite the conspiracy theorist.

Abdic was the Serbian candidate in Bosnia, and he was not "swept aside", he withdrew in order to organize a unit that fought alongside the VRS.

He's currently serving time for the war crimes he committed while leading that unit against Izetbegovic's forces.

I'm not sure what kind of "moderate" executes 121 civilians.

146 posted on 06/28/2006 10:06:09 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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