[Texasforever]

I was wrong the Kosovo civilian casualties were far lower than I stated

NEW FIGURES ON CIVILIAN DEATHS IN KOSOVO WAR

(Washington, February 7, 2000) -- About five hundred civilians died in ninety separate incidents as a result of NATO bombing in Yugoslavia last year, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.

[Alberta's Child]

When you add up the devastation to that region that will result from the bombing attacks, the depleted-uranium shells that litter the countryside, etc., I'm sure the toll will be much higher.

The numbers are less important than the principle that is involved here. The United States carried out a military campaign of dubious nature, and in the process they placed a higher value on their own military personnel (and political fortunes, in the case of Bill Clinton) than on the lives of foreign civilians.

If those aren't war crimes, I don't know what is.