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To: vladimir998
Croatia had to force Serbian troops out of its country.

This is good. There were NO Serbian troops in existence. Hadn't existed since 1918. There were federal troops - at the time commanded by (mostly) Croat generals. Yugoslavia's Government itself was headed by a Croat prime minister (A. Markovich).

I think you imagine paranoia when you have no argument or facts.

I just gave you the facts and then some.

Serbia will never realize its vain dreams of a Greater Serbia.

Ha-ha. Pull the other one. This line is about a hundred years old and it's as ridiculous now as it was then. It was used by Austria-Hungary to deflect attention from their own expansionism (such as the annexation of Serbian-majority Bosnia in 1908).

36 posted on 12/26/2007 9:21:36 PM PST by Banat (DEO + REGI + PATRIAE | Basileia Romaion)
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To: Banat

You wrote:

“This is good. There were NO Serbian troops in existence. Hadn’t existed since 1918. There were federal troops - at the time commanded by (mostly) Croat generals. Yugoslavia’s Government itself was headed by a Croat prime minister (A. Markovich).”

Incorrect. The Yugoslavian Army was little more than the army of communist Serbia. I noticed you ignored the website I linked to. If you had, you would have seen this: “That May, Serbia upped the ante by blocking the installation of Stipe Mesic, a Croat scheduled to be the chairman of the rotating presidency in Yugoslavia.” So much for your vaunted federation.

“I just gave you the facts and then some.”

No, you just gave me your imaginings. As the NYTimes easily admitted: “Members of the federal military met with Croatian officials today in Zagreb, the Croatian capital, to discuss proposals for the withdrawal of the Serbian-dominated army from the republic and for relief shipments to besieged Croatian cities including Vukovar. No agreements were reached.”

Serbian-dominated army. See that? Serbian-dominated army. Yeah, imagine that. It was just like I said it was - a Serbian army taking orders from Serbia. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEEDE163CF934A25752C1A967958260

“Ha-ha. Pull the other one. This line is about a hundred years old and it’s as ridiculous now as it was then. It was used by Austria-Hungary to deflect attention from their own expansionism (such as the annexation of Serbian-majority Bosnia in 1908).”

Consider it a deflection all you like but it looks like Serbia is about to go in the toilet again over Kosovo. What will you do then? Cry?

Now, if you have any facts - which you could actually cite - please post them. Otherwise your side of this petty argument is looking as lost as Kosovo itself.


43 posted on 12/27/2007 5:42:08 AM PST by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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