[Polybius]

How does turning over a war criminal or two make the Serbs our friends?

To many on FreeRepublic, the fact that Clinton bombed the Serbs automatically makes the Serbs saints in their eyes.

There were no saints on any side of the Yugoslav wars. However, given a choice between the Serbs trying to establish a Greater Serbia in Croatia and the Croats defending Croatia, I'll side with the Croats.

[Banat]

However, given a choice between the Serbs trying to establish a Greater Serbia in Croatia and the Croats defending Croatia, I'll side with the Croats.

Greater Serbia?! LOL!

Dude, I really don't mean to be disrespecftul but you've gotta a looooooooong way to go to get into the Balkan 'loop'.

[Canuck1]

given a choice between the Serbs trying to establish a Greater Serbia in Croatia and the Croats defending Croatia, I'll side with the Croats.

You sure are up to speed on your anti-Serb propaganda.

The Krajina Serbs took up arms in 1991 not to establish a Greater Serbia but to resist being incorporated in what they understandably perceived to be a newly-created hostile state. The ultra-nationalist regime of Franjo Tudjman introduced Croatian symbols and laws that were last used by the Nazi-backed Ustatsha regime during WWII. As you might be aware, the Ustasha butchered hundreds of thousands of Serbs as part of their official policy: kill a third, expel a third and convert a third (to Catholicism).

[A. Pole]

There were no saints on any side of the Yugoslav wars. However, given a choice between the Serbs trying to establish a Greater Serbia in Croatia and the Croats defending Croatia, I'll side with the Croats.

Kraina was Serbian for centuries. The reason why it was in Croatian republic is because Communists drew the borders that way. Expelling Serbs from Kraina was a land grab.

[Andy from Beaverton]

You must be reading the same history books as A(lbanian)Brit. Tudjman always considered Bosnia and Herzegovina an appendage of Croatia. You may be right that the Croats only wanted to defend Croatia, but their map of Croatia included all of Bosnia. Another reason to prefer the Serbs over the Croats is the fact that the Croats supported the Nazis.

[Ichabod Walrus]

How fascinating to see another Serbophobe on this forum. Greetings.

You seem to have a thing for "Catholic Croatia"? What's so good about it? Do you approve of the massive genocides of WWII against its non-Catholic population, or are you just ignorant? Why on earth would a non-Croat want to live in a seperatist Croatia, totally unrepentant for its past, but indeed, governed by a neo-fascist like Franjo Tudjman?

You like to mention Dubrovnik. Alright we can talk about Dubrovnik if you wish. Let's start with the fact Croat troops were using the fortress walls as sniper positions. What, in your uniquely exulted view of the world, give Croats the right to fire and denies that same right to Serbs to fire back?

It's been over 10 years now, and I still haven't received something in the way of a logical answer yet?

BTW, were you crying when Croats were firing larger sized shells at the Serbian civilian population of Gospic, Knin, Sisak, and dozens of other places?

Looking forward to your reply, big fan of "Catholic Croatia".