[Peter Libra]

Your comments most appropriate. I looked on with dismay as the government controlled Canadian television informed us about "Kosovo",during the NATO attacks. Their views were violently anti-Serb. A few WW2 veterans posted on FR, to tell us about the role, that the Serbs had played, helping the Allied powers in the warfare there,fighting the German army.

Hardly anything on the Canadian television, as a rebuttal to NATO claims,(that I saw). Now, regarding the proposed action in Iraq- re possible warfare, the Canadian television blisters us with all kinds of views. Even then, these views tend to denigrate George Bush.

Bye the bye, we still have not had an update on the "100,000 buried in mass graves" - presumably murdered by the Serbs.

My favourite reposte by a Serbian American net was this.

The last bombing of Belgrade was by the Nazis, in 1941- Now it is NATO.

[joan]

The last bombing of Belgrade was by the Nazis, in 1941- Now it is NATO.

The Serbs are forgetting the Allied bombing of Belgrade (and other places in Yugoslavia).

NATO strikes recall WWII

...In 1944, as now, U.S. bombers flew out of bases across the Adriatic Sea in Italy.

"Planes got off the ground for the third day in a row and went to Belgrade, Yugoslavia, to bomb Zemun airdrome there," said the war diary of April 16, 1944, for the 414th Bomb Squadron (Heavy) stationed at Amendola, Italy. "The mission was a complete success with all planes returning to this base."

The 1944 Easter Bombings -- a series of raids around Orthodox Easter -- killed 4,000 -- double the number of civilians who died in a surprise attack on the capital by Nazi Germany three years earlier...

Belgrade's Sava River bridge, built in 1942 by the Nazis to replace an earlier span blown up in 1941 by the retreating Yugoslav army to impede the Nazi advance, was a prime target of the U.S. raids. Yet it survived the April 1944 bombings, while residential areas around it were leveled.

"The bombs were bursting everywhere except on the bridge," remembered Slava Mejavsek, who watched the bombing from a hillside suburb where she and her husband had taken refuge. When her mother reached them after escaping a downtown home that had taken a direct hit, her hair was singed and still smoking from the blast, Mrs. Mejavsek said in a phone interview from her home in Belgrade.

Belgrade residents helped downed U.S. pilots evade Nazi search parties, she recalled. The Yugoslav resistance rescued hundreds of U.S. fliers who were downed by the Germans during the war...