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1 posted on 02/15/2002 3:36:16 AM PST by Arkle
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To: Arkle
I shutter to think if the Impeached president was to testify, what he would actually say. We all know he's an ego maniac, always trying to steal someone else's thunder.
2 posted on 02/15/2002 3:41:50 AM PST by kassie
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To: Arkle

So, clinton is on the stand and the constable says: "bill, do you swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?"

clinton replies: "Truth?"
"Whole truth?"
"So help me God?"
clinton continues by saying: "I don't believe there is absolute truth, and as far as my god is concerned, well he is the father of all liars." "And it all depends on the definition of 'do'."

Mark

3 posted on 02/15/2002 3:51:07 AM PST by Alas
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Clinton called to testify?

The bombing raids on Trinidad begin in five minutes.

4 posted on 02/15/2002 3:53:54 AM PST by TexasNative2000
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I dont see how they could consider this a fair trial if Milosevic is not allowed to question leaders of the countries that were involved.There are material facts that he knows they know and they should be brought out.Of course if Clinton testifies the trial will last an additional 2 years. Clinton can take that long defining the word is.But the key will ne to keep Clinton from the TV or where he will be in the spotlight.Maybe he will run for President over there.
5 posted on 02/15/2002 3:55:01 AM PST by gunnedah
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Good move. Clinton is an unimpeachable witness. Uh, wait. Maybe not.
7 posted on 02/15/2002 4:05:29 AM PST by Fresh Wind
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Note to Slobby. If he didn't testify for us, he sure as hell isn't going to do it for you.
8 posted on 02/15/2002 4:08:58 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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Milosevic wants Clinton to testify

Excerpt:

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic says he will call ex-US leader Bill Clinton and other Western politicians to testify at his trial for war crimes at The Hague.

On the second day of his defence case, he has repeated his allegation that Nato is itself guilty of crimes against humanity.

Mr Milosevic, who is conducting his own defence, said he also wanted to question Germany's former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel.

Mr Milosevic is allowed to call whoever he likes as a witness. The court has the power to subpoena them but the judges do have to be persuaded that their testimony will be relevant.

During his arguments on Friday, the ex-Yugoslav leader said former US President Bill Clinton had ordered the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade because he wanted to go down in history as the first Western leader to bomb Chinese territory.


I think the expression about any person that defends himself in court has a fool for a client would apply here. . .
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12 posted on 02/15/2002 4:37:05 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
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If he testifies, will Bill charge his usual speaking fee? :-)
14 posted on 02/15/2002 4:40:39 AM PST by syriacus
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he will call ex-US leader Bill Clinton and other Western politicians to testify

And what, tell me, would be the point of this? It has already been established that the pig lies under oath, cannot explain himself due to lack of memory on any subject, and cannot understand the simple definition of what a simple word "is."

15 posted on 02/15/2002 4:42:30 AM PST by nicmarlo
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[The War Criminal] Bill Clinton had ordered the bombing ..... [The KKKli'ton-Blair-NATO Neo-Axis ... was to blame for the deportation and killing of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo in 1999.

If anyone should be dragged before that international criminal gang of berobed bewigged clowns in the Hague, first among them should come the Neo-Axis twins "Turd-Way Tony" Blair and his anti-soul sidekich, the lying, thieving, mass-murdering co-serial rapist Billy-Bubba KKKli'ton!

16 posted on 02/15/2002 4:46:00 AM PST by Brian Allen
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Klinntoon on the stand... Do you swear to tell the truth...????? Could you repeat the question, and what definition of "truth" are you using?
29 posted on 02/15/2002 5:35:04 AM PST by sidegunner
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"Even the film-makers have no doubt that Milosevic is a war criminal," Joerg Schoenenborn told the paper.

Oh! Well, that settles it! Oliver Stone will tell us what happened, and why!

32 posted on 02/15/2002 5:53:41 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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Does Milosevic really think that Clinton would speak the truth in this trial? If so, then he really IS crazy!
33 posted on 02/15/2002 6:08:30 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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Scumbags hang-out with scumbags. Go there billy boy...your buddy needs you.
36 posted on 02/15/2002 6:37:40 AM PST by Issaquahking
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Here is the complete text of what is in my opinion a better version of this story, from Reuters. In this version, Milosevic calls the KLA "savages". I have been calling the KLA/UCK, those among the Kosovo Shiptars who support it, and their al Qaeda masters and collaborators muslim savages here on FR for a long time.

The destruction of Orthodox Christian churches by the UCK savages is WORSE than the Taliban destruction of the Buddhist monuments!!!! That is because these churches were USED by a living people! The holy sacraments were celebrated and God's Word was heard in these churches--they were filled with the presence of Christ!!!! So much WORSE for the UCK, the al Qaeda monsters, and their NWO enablers and funders!!!!

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Milosevic Accuses NATO, Demands Clinton Testify

By Andrew Roche

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Slobodan Milosevic (news - web sites) returned to the attack at his war crimes trial on Friday, accusing NATO (news - web sites) of ''bestial'' genocide in Yugoslavia and demanding ex-U.S. President Bill Clinton and other Western leaders come to testify.

``I'm asking what kind of tribunal this is if you refuse to try people for these crimes by the leaders and armies of NATO countries,'' Milosevic said to judges in the Hague.

The former Yugoslav president, in his second day of reply to his prosecutors' opening addresses, blamed the bloodshed of the 1990s entirely on his Balkan enemies and NATO.

On the fourth day of what is forecast to be a marathon case, he insisted the hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians who fled Kosovo in 1999 during the NATO air war against Yugoslavia had been driven out not by Serbs, as internationally reported, but by their fellow Albanians.

The guerrilla Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) ``referred to all Albanians who did not flee Kosovo as traitors,'' he said, creating an ``illusion of exodus.'' ``There were hundreds of cameras waiting at the borders to show alleged Serb misdeeds.''

The motive was to justify NATO's attack. Milosevic showed the court pictures of carbonized bodies of civilians killed by NATO bombs in Kosovo and the rest of Serbia in 1999.

NATO bombs destroyed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, in what Washington insisted was a mistake by Central Intelligence Agency (news - web sites) target planners using an outdated map.

``It is quite clear that Clinton wanted to go down in history as the first man to bomb Chinese territory by bombing the Chinese embassy,'' Milosevic said. ``This was no accident.''

But even more than the United States, it was Germany which Milosevic singled out for condemnation. He said it destroyed old communist Yugoslavia by its support from Slovenian and Croatian independence, and by secret backing of Albanian ''terrorists.''

``The German intelligence service rallied up criminals from all over Europe. They were pushed to Kosovo,'' he said.

CLUSTER BOMBS

Accusing NATO of the widespread use of especially lethal ''cluster bombs,'' he showed the court a photograph of a Serb peasant woman killed while plowing her field and the corpses of children dressed in their pajamas.

``This is an example of bestiality, targeting people in this way,'' he said, adding that NATO had bombed at night to maximize deaths among sleeping civilians.

He produced pictures of bomb-shattered hospitals, an old people's home, buses, houses and workplaces, some strewn with charred and bloodied bodies.

After NATO occupied Kosovo in June 1999, they allowed Serbs to be killed or forced out by Albanian ``terrorists'' and ''savages.'' More than 100 Serb Orthodox churches were razed in a campaign he likened to Taliban destruction of Buddhist statues.

Echoing the language of his own indictment, Milosevic said the West had committed ``genocide and crimes against humanity.''

``I am going to call witnesses here and I want it to be possible to question Clinton and Albright and Kinkel and Schroeder and Kohl and Dini... Kofi Annan (news - web sites)... Blair,'' he said, listing Western and U.N. leaders involved in Balkan peace talks.

In Moscow, which vehemently opposed the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the Russian parliament on Friday branded the Hague tribunal a ``political'' court which had failed to charge NATO states for atrocities during the air war.

A Duma (lower house) motion expressed ``deep concern over the activities of the International Tribunal,'' saying it had ''ignored serious breaches of international humanitarian law carried out by the member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

``We are deeply concerned that the prosecution of individuals by the tribunal is of a political character,'' the Duma added.

MILOSEVIC TIRED BUT ``IN GOOD SHAPE''

The confident, forcefully-spoken Milosevic, who lampooned his prosecuting lawyers on Thursday from the dock where he sits before a deskful of documents, again goaded them personally.

``The prosecutor is probably bored, I can see him yawning,'' he said of one lawyer, as the court viewed grim photographs of burned and mutilated bodies of children on the monitor screens dotted around the high-tech tribunal chamber.

Milosevic was deported from Belgrade seven months ago to a jail cell in the Hague. He has been indicted for crimes against humanity in Kosovo in 1999 and in Croatia in 1991-2, and for genocide in the 1992-5 Bosnian war.

Earlier this week prosecutors portrayed him as the prime culprit in a decade of Serb aggression which led to massacres, torture, mass rapes and expulsions of populations from their homes across former Yugoslavia.

``He is tired... after so many hours in court but he's in good shape,'' his Belgrade legal adviser, Dragoslav Ognjanovic, said late on Thursday after visiting Milosevic in prison.

After addressing the international court for around four hours on Thursday, the 60-year-old spoke by telephone to his wife and loyal supporter, Mira Markovic, from the U.N. detention center at The Hague (news - web sites), Ognjanovic said.

Dressed in a navy suit and a tie in the red, blue and white Serbian colors, Milosevic sits flanked by seated guards in a courtroom sealed off from the public gallery by a bullet-proof glass wall and equipped with computer screens, cameras and simultaneous interpreters in four languages.

He is conducting his own defense, after refusing to appoint defense counsel or enter a formal plea on the grounds the court has no right to judge him, but is advised by Belgrade lawyers.

Judges have entered not guilty pleas on his behalf and appointed three lawyers as ``friends of the court'' to ensure Milosevic gets a fair trial. The ``friends'' on Friday appealed for him to be given leeway in the length of his address.

Observers said the legal value to his case of his counter-accusations against NATO was doubtful, but they could have a powerful political impact, especially in Yugoslavia.

The reformist Yugoslav government, which handed Milosevic to the Hague, on Friday called his testimony a ``disgusting'' misuse of images of death and destruction to deflect personal blame.

Milosevic could face life in prison if convicted at the end of an epic trial some expect to last at least two years.

40 posted on 02/15/2002 7:38:10 AM PST by Honorary Serb
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Why would Milosevic want to taint his trial by having clinton testify?
41 posted on 02/15/2002 7:49:41 AM PST by Tennessee_Bob
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This is extremely dangerous. Clinton would be a US citizen on the stand of an illegal international tribunal. If the pattern follows, he will by precedent do everything he can to damage the rights and immunities of US citizenship under the Constitution.

Milosevic is clearly a very sharp lawyer. The rights conferred to witnesses against self-incrimination in international proceedings are different than in the US. This could be really interesting and a threat to the Constitutional rights of every US citizen if he is "forced" to testify and does. Of course for Bubba there wouldn't be a penalty, no he would be REWARDED for doing the dirty deed.

42 posted on 02/15/2002 8:16:00 AM PST by Carry_Okie
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The RAPIST should testify. I protested the RAPIST's wag-the-dog war every Saturday in San Mateo in front of Congress"man" tom lantos' district office. I truly believe NATO was guilty of war crimes and Mad Nobright has blood on her hands, too. Whatever happened to those rich mines? Why is ETHNIC CLEANSING of the SERBS an acceptable practice at the same time Milosevic is being accused of ethnic cleansing of the ETHNIC ALBANIANS? Seems to me it was a two way street or maybe even a one way street. Go figure. For victory & freedom!!!
44 posted on 02/15/2002 8:35:23 AM PST by Saundra Duffy
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Get in line.

-PJ

53 posted on 02/15/2002 9:48:10 AM PST by Political Junkie Too
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Why? He'd just lie under oath. He has much experience at that you know.
55 posted on 02/15/2002 9:57:59 AM PST by RetiredArmy
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