Bush thanks Yugoslavia for support in fight against terrorism

The Associated Press ^

[FireWall]

Sarcasm aside, who made this assumption? I am refering to the definition of "victim". The victim decides the who is the terrorist, the US and Isreali governments seem to think that they are the only ones capable of being "victims".

[philosofy123]

Free Slobo, arm Yugoslavia to fight the Albanian Moslem terrorists! Reverse the Clinton Crap! Apologize to the Serbian people!

[A. Pole]

He is no different than a Mugabe for example.

Mugabe at least is not a traitor in the service of outside powers.

[A. Pole]

One more tidbit, the US is now worried that Osama and friends will be employing Chechens to hijack US airplanes, and why is it that we are puting pressure on the Russians again?

Because Chechens or Wahabi Arabs when fighting Russians, become the noble freedom fighters?

[swarthyguy]

It's a first step, if nothing else, Overdue but still welcome.

[irish_links]

....You have to remember, our biased media has been very complicit in perpetuating the "bad Serbs" myth that followed in tow to the Democratic "hootin' and hollerin'" over human rights. Clinton proved that Goebbels was a small time propogandist compared to the exPOTUS42's tenacious evil. His manipulation of the media and the public is absoluely stunning, what is more stunning is how many individuals buy into the nonsense.....

Another valid point, FireWall. With respest to Iraq, the media appears to have the same strange sympathy for Saddam's Iraq as Castro's Cuba. Sure he's a tyrant, they seem to say, but he's done great things for the Iraqi people and they love him. More to the point, he is a leader of the Third World anti-american movement. He has things to say that must be heard!

If the U.S. only saw things from his perspective, it would see things differently. Cue the film provided by Iraqi television of the Great Man thoughtfully leading a meeting or nodding his avuncular head as a group of school children sing a patriotic song to the Fearless Leader. Yada, yada, yada.

Slobo's problem arose when the media decided he wasn't a really a communist, and therefore sort of one of their own, but rather a fascist. After that he was toast and no amount of punishment would suffice.

So long as Saddam portrays himself as a Third World socialist revolutionary, he will always maintain a modicum of support in the Western media and the Democrat party here in the U.S.

The leftist media is nothing if not easy to read.

[FireWall]

Bingo, they're not Americans but Russians. We only cry foul when we get bitten, everybody breakout your snake bite kits, I hear a distant rattling somewhere.

[FireWall]

No, but he is a traitor to his own people. Djindjic is a patsy who thinks that he has his finger on the pulse of Serbia, he keeps forgetting that he is an expendable piece of trash that the US will remove swiftly if he doesn't play ball.

[FireWall]

Sometimes empty gestures come off as being more insulting than anything else, this one is like a slap in the face.

"Thank you for your assistance in the War on Terror, now hand over your guys to the Hague or you get no cash..."

Sincerity is so hard to come by nowadays that if it is present at all, it hardly gets noticed.

[Balto_Boy]

"The United States was directly attacked last Sept. 11, but terrorism darkens the prospects of all people to live in peace, freedom and prosperity," Bush said. "With perseverance and courage, I am certain that we together will prevail against this threat."

[FireWall]

Yes, "Read My Lips"...

[Gael]

What you said. On a semi-related point, thanks for posting that "Wish You Were Here" pic some time ago. It's now the wallpaper on my office PC. Whenever I drove back to DC from Long Island I would take the Bklyn Bridge -- mostly because I'm a cheap bastard and wanted to avoid the Verrazano toll but also because I just loved seeing the downtown skyline from that vantage. I finally got back to NYC yesterday and went to Ground Zero for the first time. Damn I'm angry, all over again.

[Gael]

Albania? Oh no, it was worse than that. We all knew at the time that Some members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which has financed its war effort through the sale of heroin, were trained in terrorist camps run by international fugitive Osama bin Laden, but nevertheless bombed the Serbs on their behalf. What was it that LIEberman said about the US and the KLA sharing the same values?

[F-117A]

>Not true. Bitter but they don't hate us.

Yes, they do.

Smiles, perhaps that is your experience, but it is not mine based on talks and e-mails with Serbs here in the US and in Yugoslavia. I have to side with MadelineZapeezda.

[lavaroise]

, the US and Isreali governments seem to think that they are the only ones capable of being "victims".

We cannot blame Jews to be anti-Nazi or Americans to be anti-AntiAmericans. Let us face it. Jews and Americans may have been flirting with communism, but so have christians and the rest of the world. Why should America be accepting of Islam's obviously proselytist hegemonic and coercive religion? Why should Jews? It's not a matter of definition but of jurisdictions, and how Islam will always seek to infiltrated and violate jurisdictions. Worse, if Islam was frank and waged a civilized battle, in the white of the eye against the white of the eye, but they are not even doing this. They just throw spears and suicide bombers at us, Bin Laden hidding behind stupid rhetoric and suicidal deranged people, like an ape hidding in the trees. I will grant you however the credit that Clinton did fight terror like an ape himself, but that was only a continuation of the MAD doctrine type tactic or its Krutchevian gradualist, one knock for a knock, type warfare. THis world is learning how to fight and to become civilized, and that is precisely the reason why we should not stop the US from getting involved now, instead of throwing darts around as under the Clinton admin. This is not a war of civilizations, it is a war of civilizationing - ourselves and the rest of the world.

[Liberty Teeth]

Unbelieveable.

[Liberty Teeth]

"Man, did we ever screw up in Yugoslavia."

Not we. There were many who were furiously opposed to this.

I would hope that the freepers who supported this would come forward and explain the double standard.

[Liberty Teeth]

"With Kosovo, the democrats were thirsty for blood."

This is true. However, the blame does not stop with the Dums.