Posted on 11/02/2005 8:38:28 AM PST by Doctor13
AN ANALYSIS
Why Clinton Bombed the Serbs - A National Disgrace Few American Even Know Nor Care About
1. To appease the Islamic world for our daily bombing of Iraq. President Clinton wanted to prove to the Muslim world that we really cared and that we were willing to destroy a Christian people to prove it.
2. The Saudis wanted the first Islamic country in the belly of Europe, and Clinton wanted cheap oil and Saudi money. The Saudis had signed a letter of intent to buy $6 billion worth of Boeing aircraft. The day after we bombed the Serbs in 1995 based on the self-inflicted Markale market place massacre by Bosnian Muslim forces, the Saudis signed on the dotted line. A coincidence? I don't think so. This is what Yossef Bodansky, author of "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America," had to say in his 1995 book, "Offensive in the Balkans:"
- "Phase Three started with the self-inflicted major terrorist provocation. On Friday 5, 1994, a major explosion rocked the Markale -- Sarajevo's main market place -- causing heavy casualties. What was immediately described as the ubiquitous "Serb mortar shell" was actually a special charge designed and built with help from HizbAllah experts and then most likely dropped from a nearby rooftop onto the crowd of shoppers. Video cameras at the ready recorded this expertly-staged spectacle of gore, while dozens of corpses of Bosnian Muslim troops killed in action (exchanged the day before in a 'body swap' with the Serbs) were paraded in front of cameras to raise the casualty count.
- "This callous self-killing was designed to shock the West especially sentimental and gullible Washington, in order to raise the level of Western sympathy to the Bosnian Muslims and further demonize the Serbs so that Western governments would be more supportive of Sarajevo's forthcoming aggressive moves, and perhaps even finally intervene military."
There were other reports from European newspapers such as The [London] Sunday Times," with headlines that read, "Serbs 'not guilty' of massacre, Experts warned US that mortar was Bosnian" (1 Oct. 1995), and "US Framed Serbs for Market Bombing," from the Stoneyhill Center, a British think tank (Oct 1995). No such headlines appeared in US national newspapers.
3. Clinton needed a new mission for NATO. The Soviet Union had collapsed and if you recall, the NATO Treaty was a collective security agreement between member nations that if one NATO nation were attacked by the Soviet Union (CCCP), other NATO members would go to its defense. In violation of International law, the NATO Treaty, the UN Charter and without the approval of Congress, Clinton and his administration, along with Serb-hating Madeline Albright, Wesley Clark, Richard Holbrooke and the rest of the Clinton gang, bombed tiny Yugoslavia that did not attack us or any NATO nation, was never a threat to us, nor did it have weapons of mass destruction.
One graphic example of Madeleine Albright's animosity towards the Serbs was the time she was entering the United Nations building as US ambassador and a Serb called out and asked why she was doing these terrible things to the Serbs. She answered, "Because they deserve it!" A more humorous account regarding Ms. Albright is the story of how the war in the Balkans really began. During a meeting of Madeleine Albright with the all-male NATO ministers, she asked the question, "Well gentleman, do we make love or do we make war?" Of course, the answer was unanimously for war.
4. Clinton couldn't let this pip-squeak of a nation defy The New World Order.
5. Our wag-the-dog president had to have a diversion from his affair in the Oval Office with a woman young enough to be his daughter.
6. Clinton also needed a war to prove he was a wartime president in the mold of FDR in order to put to rest his draft-dodging days and his contempt for the US military. The propaganda against the Serbian people has not been equalled since Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, said, "If you tell a big enough lie and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." In civil wars all sides do terrible things, but in this war all blame fell on the Serbs. President Clinton was (and continues to be) the biggest con artist this nation has ever seen and it is unfortunate that the American people believed every word uttered by him regarding the events in the Balkans even though over 75% of the American people believed him to be a liar. The fate of the Serbs from Bosnia to Kosovo was sealed.
It is a sad reflection on all Americans what William Jefferson Clinton did to the Serbian people in our name. Sadder still is the realization that if he were able to run for president again he might very well be elected.
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I seem to remember that in the end there were more civilian casualties from US high altitude bombing than there were "genocide" victims in mass graves.
I thank you for the information. You might be interested to know why I was not one of the brainwashed persons at this tragic time for the Serbs.
It was, of course the internet. First someone mentioned the previous bombing of Belgrade. Surprise. It was Goring's Luftwaffe 1941. Oh says I, these blighters 'ad a near miss on me and all, also 1941 in England.
There were American ex-servicemen on the net. They informed us, they fought with the Serbs against the German Army. I understand the Croats were with the Germans.
From then on, I knew something was wrong, so wrong it stank to high heaven. As does the ruling Liberal Party of Canada.
They still lied, though. The Clinton administration said there were up to 100,000 dead in mass graves. 800, while terible, is far from 100,000...
I believe the death count from our bombing was in the 1,500-2,500 range depending on who you believe (the media, NATO, or the Serb government at the time).
Perhaps you were searching in the wrong place.
For example, you wouldn't find evidence of mass graves in Kosovo under your bed, in your closet, or under the pillows in your couch.
On the other hand, if you did a web search, you'd be hard pressed not to find that which you claim to have been looking for with such diligence.
Furthermore, if you had been paying attention at the time, you wouldn't still be bothering with Slobo's exaggerated casualty counts, as when he had his State Prosecutor file charges against NATO (before that unpleasant business of being overthrown) HRW's numbers were used, which were just over 500.
Just another inconvenient fact for the Milosevici to ignore, I guess.
I gave up looking sometime in late 2000. And I haven't given this topic much thought if any since 9/11...
The "justifications" you site for NATO attacking Serbia are too true and too sickening. That was a "just" war?
There were about 500 civilian casualties over the three months of bombing & 14,000 strike sorties; about half of which were Kosovar Albanians--overall our Air Force, Marine, & Navy pilots were precise, professional and careful.
The Former Republic of Yugoslavia Ministry of Foreign Affairs came up with 495 deaths. The decidedly unfriendly-to-America Human Rights Watch came up with 488-527 bombing deaths; closely corresponding to Belgrade's 495. Go to para 53.
As to victims of Serb ethnic cleansing, there were many more than 500. There are 2300 Kosovar Albanians still missing, although there are pretty good indications as to what happened to them.
Not to mention the 1000 Kosovar Albanian bodies found in a mass grave in Serbia proper where they were transported by order of Milosevic in an attempt to clean-up the crime scene. And then there's the thousands of other Kosovar Albanian victims of Serb ethnic cleansing found in Kosovo itself.
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