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Bill Clinton unveils statue of himself in Kosovo
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/kosovo/6481057/Bill-Clinton-unveils-statue-of-himself-in-Kosovo.html ^

Posted on 11/01/2009 2:14:22 PM PST by kronos77

The 11-foot statue, dedicated to the US president to thank him for launching a Nato bombing campaign to halt the killing of ethnic Albanians by Serbian troops in 1999, sits on a boulevard also named for Mr Clinton.

"I am profoundly grateful that I had a chance to be a part of ending the horrible things that were happening to you 10 years ago, giving you a chance to build a better future for yourself," Mr Clinton told the crowd. "I never expected ... anywhere someone will make such a big statue of me," he said after the statue was unveiled. He urged Kosovars to build a multi-ethnic country with the minority Serbs and other minorities and said the United States would always help Kosovo's people. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia last year and was recognised by the United States and major European Union powers - a total of 62 countries worldwide - but not by its former ruler, Serbia, Russia or China. Kosovo Albanians regard Mr Clinton, Tony Blair and Madeleine Albright, Mr Clinton's Secretary of State, as their saviours and have even named babies after them. "In 1996 everybody was saying that Clinton is a good man and he will help us and then my father named me after him," said 13-year-old Klinton Krasniqi. Around 10,000 Albanians were killed as Serb forces moved to wipe out an ethnic Albanian guerrilla force. Eight times that many were expelled to neighbouring Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; islam; kosovo; serbia; statue; x42
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1 posted on 11/01/2009 2:14:23 PM PST by kronos77
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To: joan; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; ma bell; ...

2 posted on 11/01/2009 2:15:07 PM PST by kronos77 (Kosovo is Serbian Jerusalem. No Serbia without Kosovo.)
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To: kronos77

Well that gives the dogs in the area something to urinate on.


3 posted on 11/01/2009 2:15:13 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: kronos77

Another egotistical you-know-what!


4 posted on 11/01/2009 2:16:00 PM PST by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: kronos77

So Clinton is hard as stone?

Was he smoking a cigar?


5 posted on 11/01/2009 2:16:44 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: kronos77

cue the pigeons


6 posted on 11/01/2009 2:17:22 PM PST by Mobties
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To: A_Former_Democrat

“So Clinton is hard as stone? Was he smoking a cigar?”

Had one in his pocket...or he was just glad to be there...


7 posted on 11/01/2009 2:18:00 PM PST by jessduntno ("Faux News" to "Foe News"..."they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.")
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To: kronos77

is it wearing pants?


8 posted on 11/01/2009 2:18:56 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (That smell of death...be seeing ya big casino)
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To: kronos77
Oh, God, as if his ego wasn't big enough already........


9 posted on 11/01/2009 2:20:18 PM PST by Viking2002
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To: Parley Baer

Too high, but works well for pigeons


10 posted on 11/01/2009 2:21:01 PM PST by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: kronos77

BO’s gonna be p*ssed...


11 posted on 11/01/2009 2:21:02 PM PST by CAluvdubya (Palin 2012...YOU BETCHA!.)
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To: jessduntno
LOL .... you guys, so disrespeckful .... lolol
12 posted on 11/01/2009 2:22:14 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: kronos77
Wrong pose....

13 posted on 11/01/2009 2:23:16 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

I am profoundly grateful that I had a chance to be a part of ending the horrible things that were happening to you 10 years ago.


interesting speach because as far as i rember clinton didn´t want to get involved in this war in generall.
It have been the europeans who demandet the nato bombing of serbia. (ok i have to admit clinton had no choice because if he would have refused nato would have died).


14 posted on 11/01/2009 2:23:22 PM PST by darkside321
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To: kronos77

15 posted on 11/01/2009 2:24:01 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: kronos77

A statue that had a striking likeness of a young woman resembling Monica L was located a few block away...posing in admiration...on her knees.


16 posted on 11/01/2009 2:24:38 PM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: kronos77

How nice that Clinton handed Kosovo over to drug running Muslim thugs.


17 posted on 11/01/2009 2:26:08 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

So Clinton is hard as stone?


That’s what Monica Lewinsky said LOL


18 posted on 11/01/2009 2:26:38 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: kronos77

Most of the Muslim Albanians in Albania are Sunni Muslims and Bektashi Shi’a Muslims. It is estimated that 90% of ethnic Albanians in the Republic of Kosovo are Muslims.


19 posted on 11/01/2009 2:28:40 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: kronos77

Someday.

20 posted on 11/01/2009 2:28:44 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Ask not what the Kennedys can do for you, but what you can do for the Kennedys.)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Ha, ha, you beat me to it!

When Clinton passes on, my sister-in-law plans on taping a little pair of paper boxers at half-mast to her car antenna. I think I will, too.


21 posted on 11/01/2009 2:29:41 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: kronos77; StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; ...
The 11-foot statue, dedicated to the US president to thank him for launching a Nato bombing campaign to halt the killing of ethnic Albanians by Serbian troops in 1999, sits on a boulevard also named for Mr Clinton.

Oh man... where's the Barf Alert?

22 posted on 11/01/2009 2:33:17 PM PST by nutmeg (Obamunism is destroying America)
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To: Cicero

How nice that Clinton handed Kosovo over to drug running Muslim thugs.


yeah maybe he did! but then again there was a real genocide against this people. we should not forget this. if serbia would have not attacked every one of its former citizens the europeans would have never called for a bombing which will stop this madness. (of course if this would have happened in africa no one would have cared) but it happened in europe so the people did care.


23 posted on 11/01/2009 2:33:22 PM PST by darkside321
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To: Cicero

We should put a statue of Der Shlickmeister in ground zero and on the side of the wall at the Pentagon. Let the congressional black caucus contract it out.


24 posted on 11/01/2009 2:33:38 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: nutmeg

Is the statue wearing pants?


25 posted on 11/01/2009 2:35:00 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Liberal sacred cows make great hamburger)
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To: kronos77

What did they do? Replace the head on a Radovan Karadzic statue?


26 posted on 11/01/2009 2:36:34 PM PST by OpeEdMunkey (Eat right...exercise...die anyway.)
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To: kronos77

What did they do? Replace the head on a Radovan Karadzic statue?


27 posted on 11/01/2009 2:36:40 PM PST by OpeEdMunkey (Eat right...exercise...die anyway.)
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To: kronos77

Clinton unveiled the statue because nobody else would do it.


28 posted on 11/01/2009 2:37:35 PM PST by Joe Bfstplk
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To: kronos77

In rememberance of his furthering islam in kosovo. Probably funded by CAIR.


29 posted on 11/01/2009 2:39:10 PM PST by taxesareforever (Release Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich and let him and his family get on with their lives.)
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To: darkside321

Al baby like typing detected


30 posted on 11/01/2009 2:39:39 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom sarc ;))
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To: kronos77

OHHHH NOOOOOOOOOO!


31 posted on 11/01/2009 2:39:48 PM PST by Monkey Face (I wear a yellow ribbon for ForgotenKnight, my army hero grandson.)
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To: kronos77

Question... at this point, if you had your choice, would you choose the O as your ‘leader’ or would you rather have Bill back in office?


32 posted on 11/01/2009 2:41:13 PM PST by steveo (Two Thousand Ten - Never Again)
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To: kronos77

Clinton Killed Christians for the drug running arm of the KLA Muslim cult.


33 posted on 11/01/2009 2:46:22 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
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To: darkside321
"yeah maybe he did! but then again there was a real genocide against this people. we should not forget this. if serbia would have not attacked every one of its former citizens the europeans would have never called for a bombing which will stop this madness.

BS, darkside! There was NO "genocide of the Albanians" in Kosovo before the NATO Bombing. There were a few thousand dead on ALL sides.

There was an Albanian terrorist insurgency trying to take Kosovo away from Serbia of which it has always been a constituent part. You can't "attack" your own territory -- Serbia was defending its own territory of Kosovo. We in the West decided to back the Albanian terrorists just so that we could plant a NATO base in Kosovo.

NATO SHOULD have died with the Cold War. Instead, we allowed NATO to morph from a purely defensive organization into an aggressive one -- and it's first and second act of aggression was in the former Yugoslavia against our WWII Allies, the Serbs.

We screwed ourselves in favor of the NWO by bombing the Serbs -- and now the chickens have come home to roost.

34 posted on 11/01/2009 2:47:10 PM PST by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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Al baby like typing detected


i have to say that i personally suported the bombing of serbia! i really did. it was the best “we” could do. of course it definitelly has killed some really inocent serbs but anyway. they wanted war they got it. there is no war where no one who is really innocent has not do die.


35 posted on 11/01/2009 2:47:49 PM PST by darkside321
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To: kronos77
I assume Clinton's statue has his pants down and he's holding a cigar in one hand.



36 posted on 11/01/2009 2:48:25 PM PST by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: kronos77
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37 posted on 11/01/2009 2:54:04 PM PST by Tawiskaro
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To: kronos77

I first saw the title as “Clinton unveils himself”... YAAAUUAGGGH!


39 posted on 11/01/2009 3:16:49 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: darkside321

You need to do a little better historical research than watching cnn and bbc.


40 posted on 11/01/2009 3:23:29 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: Eagles6

i don´t think so. i was in afghanistan in 2005 and i was deployed in kosovo (a real vacation instead of afghanistan).


41 posted on 11/01/2009 3:25:46 PM PST by darkside321
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"I am profoundly grateful that I had a chance to be a part of ending the horrible things that were happening to you 10 years ago, giving you a chance to build a better future for yourself,"

The delusional First Rapist still hasn't caught on... He bombed the wrong side.
But I suppose it's fitting that he should joining the monumental Mao and Saddam Hussein statues in the iconography of losers.

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As documented by Daniel Pearl, who was subsequently murdered by the muslims.

42 posted on 11/01/2009 3:27:40 PM PST by Publius6961 (…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
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To: Eagles6

You need to do a little better historical research than watching cnn and bbc.


and again i was for blowing evry serb out of this world.
again if they don´t like it they are free to give up. but as long ass they don´t they have been the enemeys. and this is a fact. if you are the official enemy “we” will shoot you no mather what you say or do. no one cares. the enemy will be shot!


43 posted on 11/01/2009 3:33:43 PM PST by darkside321
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To: kronos77

Absolutely disgusting. One of the darkest most evil episodes of U.S. foreign policy ever.


44 posted on 11/01/2009 3:35:57 PM PST by TigersEye (Democracy sucks!)
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To: kronos77

New monument for Bill Clinton...please contribute

45 posted on 11/01/2009 3:46:01 PM PST by Libloather (Tea totaler, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state...)
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To: darkside321

Are you American, darkside? Born here?


46 posted on 11/01/2009 3:50:52 PM PST by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: kronos77

Hope he spent enough time there to actually see a Church burned.


47 posted on 11/01/2009 3:53:50 PM PST by SJackson (In wine there is wisdom, In beer there is freedom, In water there is bacteria.)
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To: SERKIT

Thanks for posting that. It’s probably the best thing that came from the Clinton years. His true legacy!


48 posted on 11/01/2009 3:54:48 PM PST by GBA
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To: kronos77; Bokababe; FormerLib

Wow! Why don’t the Shiptars add statutes of obama, Halfbright, and Tony Blair (the inventor of “NICE”—age-based health care rationing, as well as being a Serbophobe mad bomber), and have a sort of “Mount TRASHmore”!!!!

Only the Serb army can return peace, justice, and civilization to Kosovo!


49 posted on 11/01/2009 4:05:44 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: kronos77

How nauseating.

Clinton gets a statue for his Wag the War bombing of the Serbians!

I wonder which Serb will find a way to take care of that statue in some creative manner. I wish them success!


50 posted on 11/01/2009 4:07:11 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Obama's Deathcare ---- many will suffer and/or die unnecessarily.)
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