Milosevic Trial Resumes

NYT ^ | 8/25/02 | MARLISE SIMONS

[vooch]

The Lamestream media has been trying desperately to cover their tails on this one. These liberal Humanitarian Warrios supported Clinton's reckless Kosovo War.

Now it turns out that Clinton's pals in the area, the KLA were nothing more than murderous Jihadists.

Since GWB took over virtually the entire officer corps of the KLA has been arrested mainly for killing their fellow Albanians.

GWB's White House has also officially called for the UN Tribunal to be shut down asap.

Effectively, these actions tell us that Milosevic was correct and Clinton fought on the wrong side. The lamestream media can spin and spin all they want, but they can not hide the fact that under GWB's leadership Clinton's pals the KLA has been put into prison where they always belonged.

[DTA]

Hey, someone edited this story, earlier reports were hard to believe.

I clearly remeber from one report that there were knocking sound coming from the freezer when Serbian James Bond jumped to the rescue.

[Destro]

I still don't see how this has anything to do with Milosevic. Even if you buy the fact that the Serbs could move bodies on roads being straffed by NATO out of Kosovo why would they dispose of them on the Danube where the Romanian border is less than a mile away and were Romanian patrol boats are visible? Also Slobo is on "trial" for his command responsibility. The fact that a truck full of dead bodies was found (or not found-no photos were ever shown) means nothing unless they can prove Slobo ordered the truck to be dumped (near a heavily patroled river border!!) or did nothing to stop it.

[andy_card]

Now it turns out that Clinton's pals in the area, the KLA were nothing more than murderous Jihadists.

You're being simplistic in the extreme. The KLA are a bunch of bloodthirsty thugs (though not, by any means, Islamic fundies). But many Serbs are too. And just because the KLA are bad doesn't give the Serbs the right to come in and massacre Kosovar civilians. Milosevic committed war crimes, and is justly being tried for them. I would also hope that the Kosovar criminals are also brought to justice.

I know its natural to try to view these situations in black and white, but the truth is that both sides were wrong.

[FireWall]

And just because the KLA are bad doesn't give the Serbs the right to come in and massacre Kosovar civilians

For someone who criticizes about being black and white, you seem to be doing a pretty good job yourself. This statement is utter horseshit, now please go back and read the numerous articles pertaining to the Balkans and you might find it rather interesting that your callous statement above is ridiculous amd holds about as much water as leaky thimble.

[andy_card]

This statement is utter horseshit, now please go back and read the numerous articles pertaining to the Balkans and you might find it rather interesting that your callous statement above is ridiculous amd holds about as much water as leaky thimble.

If you're denying that the Serbs, under Milosevic's direction committed a vast number of war crimes, both in Bosnia and in Kosovo, you're living in a fantasy land. What's also true is that Bosnian Muslims, Kosovar Albanians, and, especialy, Croats committed acts of similar barbarism, albeit on a somewhat smaller scale. But barbarism does not excuse barbarism. And Milosevic and his cronies need to be punished, for the genocide, mass-rape, systematic looting and ethnic cleansing that they repeatedly orchestrated.

[FireWall]

When you find me some evidence that Serbs went in to deliberately massacre civillians, I would be very interested to see it. Under 4000 people dead (mind you the KLA admitted to a few thousand battle dead) and mix in a few Yugoslav loyal Albanians whacked by the KLA and some of the dead Serb civilians along with other Serb combat deaths and NATO's famous blunders - massacre? Hardly, unless you find the KLA killing their own population while offing a lot of Serbs in the process as a massacre, then I would agree, but not by the VJ or MUP.

Facts are facts, but we wouldn't want that to get in the way of objective journalism now would we?

[andy_card]

May 14, 1999, Serb forces entered the village of Cuska, rounded up all the men and boys, and shot them. They then set fire to the village, and chased away the elderly, women and young children. Numerous witnesses, photos, burned houses and a mass grave attest to the massacre. That same day, they repeated the scene in two nearby villages, Pavlan and Zahac.

Yet you insist that there were no deliberate Serb masacres?

[vooch]

One can continue to believe Humwarrior agit-prop or come to grips with the post-Clinton hard evidence coming to light. It has now been established beyond a shadow of a doubt that the KLA killed the vast majority of Albanian civilians who died during Clinton's Kosovo War. Ramush, Gashi, Mustafa, Haradanni, Bardhi, the list of KLA officers who have been arrested by Kfor for murdering Albanians goes on and on.

[andy_card]

It has now been established beyond a shadow of a doubt that the KLA killed the vast majority of Albanian civilians who died during Clinton's Kosovo War.

You're just wrong about that. But I'll grant you that the KLA killed many innocent people. So what? Does that give Milosevic the right to do the same? Both sides were barbaric, and both deserve to be punished.