[kinoxi]

In the year before the bombing, some 2,000 people had been killed in a civil war in Kosovo. A conservative estimate is that 6,000 were killed by U.S. and NATO bombs.

Does anyone here have more accurate figures available?

[Hoplite]

Does anyone here have more accurate figures available?

Slobo's public prosecutor cited 503 civilian deaths when Slobo's minions put on their little show trial back in 2000, which fell within the range reported by HRW in February of that year.*

Meanwhile, over 800 K-Albanians have been recovered from clandestine mass graves inside Serbia itself (which when added to those recovered from inside Kosovo gives ~6k K-Albanian victims), and we're still waiting for Belgrade to come clean over the matter. Until they do, we're left with Patrick Ball's estimate of 10k K-Albanians civilians killed by Serbian military, police, and paramilitary forces.

Mr. Kincaid merely demonstrates the pathetic willful ignorance of those who still toe the Serb nationalist line over Kosovo. It's over. Done. Serbia has lost Kosovo, and no amount of lying or complaining is going to get it back.

*Human Rights Watch concludes on the basis of evidence available on these ninety incidents that as few as 488 and as many as 527 Yugoslav civilians were killed as a result of NATO bombing. source

[GOPyouth]

I do know that Clinton halted the bombing within a week of his poll numbers dropping below 50%. I was closely following that when I covered this war for my job.

I will give the administration credit for smoking the Chinese Embassy on a B2 run. The official line was that we used old maps and made a mistake, but old maps showed an empty lot. The company I interned for quickly pointed that out. :) But the masses completely believed that we would send a B2 round trip to bomb a target with "old maps" programmed in.