That sounds real useful--what sentence do you propose for a man who's been dead for 5 years?
we (meaning Klintoon) bombed and killed 2,100 civilians of Christian Serbia
No, "we" means the USA with funding provided by by Congress and moral backing from such as Governor Bush of Texas who backed the Kosovo intervention, but castigated Clinton for taking ground troops off the table.
And the total Yugoslav civilian casualties according to the study conducted by the decidedly not-sympathetic-to-the-USA Human Rights Watch were about 500. Here are some quotes from their study (Conducted with cooperation from Serbian authorities):
"Despite precautions, including the use of a higher percentage of precision-guided munitions than in any other major conflict in history, civilian casualties occurred. Human Rights Watch has conducted a thorough investigation of civilian deaths as a result of NATO action. On the basis of this investigation, Human Rights Watch has found that there were ninety separate incidents involving civilian deaths during the seventy-eight day bombing campaign. Some 500 Yugoslav civilians are known to have died in these incidents."
And over half of the casualties occurred in Kosovo, meaning as many as half of the civilian dead were of Albanian ethnicity, not Serbian.
"Attacks in Kosovo overall were more deadly-a third of the incidents account for more than half of the deaths...between 278 and 317 of the dead-between 56 and 60 percent of the total number of deaths-were in Kosovo. In Serbia, 201 civilians were killed (five in Vojvodina) and eight died in Montenegro"
BUSH: I supported the U.S. involvement in Kosovo, because I was afraid that the thug Mr. Milosevic would destabilize NATO. I felt it was in our strategic interest -- I thought it was in our strategic interest to become involved. I did not appreciate what the president did when he took ground troops off the table. I thought that was a -- I cannot imagine a commander-in-chief saying to an enemy, we're not going to use the full force of the United States to achieve an objective.
"That sounds real useful--what sentence do you propose for a man who's been dead for 5 years?"
Retroactive international condemnation would do, and an apology from the U.S. and Eurpoean governments who provoked the UN into conflict with Serbia on behalf of the tyrant Tudjman.
A few other notes on your rabidly anti-Serb parade of lies:
a.) Wrong is wrong, whether committed by a Dem or a Pubbie. Yes, Klintoons criminal actions in Kosovo were supported by Bush and many members of the U.S. Congress. This is an eternal black mark on many otherwise fine records of public service.
b.) The total Yugolslav civilian casualties in the 1999 NATO/U.S. bombing were just over 2,100. My source is the official UN estimate for the bombing (the source is admittedly shaky, but the UN are no more or less an enemy of the U.S. than Human Rights Watch, heh heh). No stipulation is provided as to how many of those killed were in Serbia or...Serbia. I'm pleased to remind you that Kosovo was then and is still a province of Yugoslavia/Serbia, and was never a seperate nation.
c.) Bush was simply wrong about the so-called "threat" of Milosevic, as were many other good politicians practicing "politics that end at the waters edge" and informed only with the MSM's oft-false reports of atrocities in the region. 5 years on, they never found the mass graves that Clinton claimed provoked us into war against Serbia. Where are the 100,000 victims? The 10,000 victims? the 5,000 victims? The best report sofar of "mass graves" found in the region revealed that the sum total was just over 4,000 people, over 1,000 of which were SERBS, and no way to identify who were soldiers and who were civilians.
Oh, but Milosevic (and his band of Christian soldiers who dared,DARED to fight the encroachment of radical Islam and the KLA into Serbia) was a "bad man", so that's justification enough. You want to believe that, then I'll let you. On those grounds, I guess I can patiently await the bombing of far worse Muslim tyrants in Sudan, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Nigeria, etc., all of which I'm sure you'll avidly support.
Right mark? Mark? Mohammed? (echo) (echo).