Milosevic Trial Resumes

NYT ^ | 8/25/02 | MARLISE SIMONS

[The-Olovo-Order]

What years were you there?

Albanians were never known to set the world on fire with their mind.

[andy_card]

You still have not answered nor replied to the above, hotshot. Trepid you are of fact?

I don't think I'm the only one who cannot understand what you're saying. Please run your post back through the Babelfish translator and try again.

[Antonius Block versus Death]

Yes, but not since the breakup. I've been in Albania fairly recently, however, where they practice a non-fundamentalist form of Islam.

Agreed. But some will have you believe that there really isn't a difference.

In my experience, however, Albanian religious moderation does not translate into intelligence.

:) Credit four decades of Hoxha in part to this.

[DTA]

>>>>>Are you telling me you see no difference between the wartime killing of enemy combattants and the wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians?

Dear Andy, you remind of Bluester, an expert in sport of "paint yourself in the corner" sport.

Enemy combatatants are combatants as long as they fight. When they surrender, they are not combatants any londer, they are POWs, regulated by The Geneva Convention.

Have you ever heard of "turkey shooting" columns of POWs and foreign nationals (also reffered to as "shooting fish in a barrel") after Desert Storm? Or about bulldozing live Iraqi POWs under the sand?

War is hell and war crimes happen. If you are full of outrage towards Serb war crimes, you should be full of outrage towards Croatian, Albanian, American or Martian war crimes alike.

Everything else is liberal hypocrisy of "i did not have sex with that woman" kind.

[andy_card]

What years were you there?

I was in Yugoslavia in 1968, 1973, and 1988. I was in Albania in 1998.

[andy_card]

Have you ever heard of "turkey shooting" columns of POWs and foreign nationals (also reffered to as "shooting fish in a barrel") after Desert Storm? Or about bulldozing live Iraqi POWs under the sand?

Were those claims true, I'd be outraged. Sy Hersh's hit piece aside, those war crimes charges have never even remotely been substantiated.

War is hell and war crimes happen.

Not necessarily. You sound like a Holocaust apologist.

If you are full of outrage towards Serb war crimes, you should be full of outrage towards Croatian, Albanian, American or Martian war crimes alike.

But I am.

[duckln]

All the 'munitions','training' and 'fanatic zeal'
eminate from (sad to say) Mecca. It's one big scourge
that has polluted Palistine, Indonisia, the Balkans and
60 odd countrys.

[The-Olovo-Order]

You like for me to tell you about the destruction of a "muslim village" the Serbs did commit? I can do my best to recall the name, you want to know why the Serbs destroyed this village, hotshot?

54 posted on 8/26/02 7:38 PM Eastern by The-Olovo-Order
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[The-Olovo-Order]

Have you ever heard of "turkey shooting" columns of POWs and foreign nationals (also reffered to as "shooting fish in a barrel") after Desert Storm? Or about bulldozing live Iraqi POWs under the sand?
Were those claims true, I'd be outraged. Sy Hersh's hit piece aside, those war crimes charges have never even remotely been substantiated.--- Boy! That was my Marine Corps unit that accomplished that A$$hole! You are either the biggest gullible airhead or a govt apologist, which is it, huhhh????????
The 88's went first and then the tanks with the mine plow...sad sad sad you are....

[andy_card]

Hersh's hit piece aside, those war crimes charges have never even remotely been substantiated.--- Boy! That was my Marine Corps unit that accomplished that A$$hole! You are either the biggest gullible airhead or a govt apologist, which is it, huhhh????????

Were you there? I wasn't. I'd be interesting in hearing your account of the story.

[andy_card]

The Serbs destroyed a whole bunch of vilages because of KLA activity. But the KLA constituted - and still constitute - only a tiny percentage of the population. Yet the entire Kosovar-Albanian population was persecuted. Why?

[The-Olovo-Order]

I got out right before the war, i trained those guys in mine clearing ops at 29Palms. They told me what happened as nothing occurred.. what stays in the field stays in the field... semper fi....

[andy_card]

Your worldview is simplistic and inaccurate. Go out into the world before you make such mind-boggingly inaccurate generalizations.

[andy_card]

I got out right before the war, i trained those guys in mine clearing ops at 29Palms. They told me what happened as nothing occurred.. what stays in the field stays in the field... semper fi...

Well, its kind of hard to accept your story if I can't hear it.

[duckln]

Been there, did that, and I'm right on the money! I guess
Communism was a mind-boggling generalization in your
view. What's the
difference?

[andy_card]

Been there, did that, and I'm right on the money!

I beg to differ.

I guess Communism was a mind-boggling generalization in your view.

Yes. Communism wasn't a monolithic entity either. Do you remember US relations with China and Yugoslavia? We worked with some Communists against others, with great effect. Welcome to the real world.

[Torie]

Welcome to the wolf pack andy. Facts don't matter much (at least inconvenient facts), balance doesn't matter, admission that some facts are not fully known is definitely not the MO of the pack. All one can do with this rather rapid back is hope they stay leashed, and devoid of influence, and ignore them. The latter is fairly easy, since they lost, and more enlightened forces won, albeit they were hideously slow in getting off the dime in Bosnia. They weren't slow in Kosovo, and thus most of the horror was not repeated. Cheers.

[Torie]

rapid back = rabid pack.

[Incorrigible]

Citing OSCE docs eh? Time to bring in the big guns!

Wraith. Tony. Fusion?

[aristeides]

You were in Albania in '98? I can guess what agency you were with.