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To: wideawake
NATO did not participate on the ground.

No, NATO was boming from the air (killing from the distance does not count), provided training, supplies and satelite information, diplomatic and propaganda support. The dirty work on the ground was done by Croatians and Muslims like Ceku.

The whole land and regional community got extirpated. The next one being finished are Serbs in Kosovo.

We are discussing real historical events in which actual people were killed.

Yes, but we live in two different realities. One of us lives in one created by the mass media.

130 posted on 06/28/2006 8:12:55 AM PDT by A. Pole (Solzhenitsyn:"Live Not By Lies" www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/livenotbylies.html)
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To: A. Pole
No, NATO was boming from the air (killing from the distance does not count

Wrong. NATO didn't bomb any targets other than missile sites which had targeted USAF facilities.

provided training,

NATO did not train the Croat army. Individual Croatian army officers had participated in joint training exercises with NATO personnel well before the Krajina campaign but NATO personnel were not training them with an eye to invading Krajina but to creating ties between Croatia and NATO to encourage Croatia to join NATO. The training exercises these individuals participated in were also attended by individual officers from various nations' armies.

supplies

Croatia purchased their own supplies on the open market.

and satelite information,

That's your claim. Croatia had access to commercial satellite reconnaissance through its membership in EUMETSAT.

diplomatic and propaganda support

Wrong again. Which NATO diplomats represnted Croatia? How many press releases and press events did NATO conduct to support Croatia's claims? The answer would be none and none.

One of us lives in one created by the mass media.

The mass media's take is that the poor Muslims in the Balkans were pure and innocent victims of inexplicable Serbian aggression.

The Milosevic-fellating take is that the poor Serbs were pure and innocent victims of inexplicable Croatian and Muslim and American and British aggression.

Those of us in the real world recognize that both sides had grievances and both sides committed atrocities and that no one in the Balkans' hands are clean.

131 posted on 06/28/2006 8:34:15 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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