[Ronly Bonly Jones]

You need to look at a map and learn the difference between Bosnia and Kosovo.

Bosnia's 8000 dead at Srebrenica, and 200,000 dead overall, are well documented (don't let the Destro Brigade BS you otherwise; I saw it, they didn't). It is the bodies of the dead from Srebrenica that I saw.

The 5000 (or is it 2000?) dead in Kosovo are in more dispute. What happened there was that the US made an "offer to Serbia that they couldn't refuse." They refused it anyway, so we started our bombing campaign. The Serbs, in response, started to commit the same kind of ethnic cleansing against Albanians that they tried against the Bosnian Muslims. Difference being, with the US Air Force dropping Detroit iron on their heads from Day 1, the Serbs were a hell of a lot less successful this time, and quit after only a month and a half. If we'd have let them run rampant like drugged rapists killing everyone in Kosovo (the same way we let them run rampant in Bosnia) for 2 1/2 years, there WOULD be 100,000 dead Kosovars. As it was, the question is whether it was 5000, 2000 or 900.

[dirtboy]

What happened there was that the US made an "offer to Serbia that they couldn't refuse."

No, the United States made an offer to Serbia that Serbia could not accept - deliberately, in order to force a conflict. Milosevic was willing to accept UN peacekeepers, but the United States wanted Nato peacekeepers, and demanded that the Nato forces have unfettered access to all of FRY, and not just Kosovo. Milosevic could not accept this, and the United States pulled out observers despite intelligence that such an action would massively increase the problems on the ground there. And, after we bombed FRY for a couple of months, we basically came around to what Milosevic was willing to do all along. But by then, Kosovo was a wreck, and remains a wreck to this day.