March 11, 1999

Secretary of State Aunt Madeleine urged Congress Wednesday to delay votes on a resolution on sending troops to Kosovo until peace talks are completed, suggesting the warring sides would interpret a lack of U.S. resolve as "a green light to resume fighting."

Of course, Clinton, without asking Congress, has already said he would send troops to Kosovo. There is far from overwhelming agreement in Congress that US troops be sent as part of a force of 28,000 to enforce an agreement which neither side wants. This does not really make it a peacekeeping mission, although that is what the Tyranny keeps calling it. There is no "peace" in Kosovo to keep. Representative Tom Campbell (R-CA) called it a "bloody civil war" but not "genocide."

"Given that this use of force against a sovereign in their own territory, which has not attacked us, is unprecedented, are the circumstances of genocide present here?" asked Campbell. "I have received briefings, as all the Members have, and what I have been led to believe is that we have a bloody civil war; we do not have a systematic attempt by the government in Serbia to exterminate the Albanian population."

One of the problems in having a president which everyone on both sides of the aisle knows is a liar is having to sift through the messages coming from the White House and his cabinet to find what, if anything being said on any subject is true or false.

In Kosovo, we are not dealing with two sovereign nations, in which one attacked the other. We are dealing with a situation quite similar to our own Civil War in which several states decided they wanted to secede from the Union. Kosovo, which is about half the size of New Jersey, wants to break away from Yugoslavia, which is the size of Kentucky. To accomplish this the Kosovars, who are 90% Albanian, having driven out or killed most of the Serb population of Kosovar during World War II, organized the Kosovo Liberation Army which is either (1) a rebel army; (2) a guerrilla organization; (3) a terrorist organization or (4) a criminal gang pushing illegal drugs - depending on which group you want to believe. There is no doubt that the present conflict was created because of the number of Serb police and citizens the Kosovars were killing. The Kosovar Albanians are supported by Albania, which just pulled itself out of anarchy in the last couple of years.

Elizabeth Becker reported in the New York Times this morning that "Members of Congress from both parties are openly suspicious about the proposed "NATO" peacekeeping mission to end the fighting in Kosovo between rebel ethnic Albanians and the Serb government. Some say they fear the mission is so flawed that it could turn into a nightmare along the lines of the Vietnam War."

Members of Congress are probably right about their worries. In fact, Dr. Henry Kissinger, national security adviser to President Richard Nixon during the Vietnam War, "raised that specter in testimony on Wednesday before the House Committee on International Relations when he questioned the wisdom of forcing the sovereign nation of Yugoslavia, under the threat of bombing, to sign an agreement to allow foreign troops to intervene in a civil war," the New York Times article says.

"Under what circumstances should American military forces be used to pursue national objectives, and what should these objectives be?" Kissinger asked, saying he was "especially sensitive" to this question since he had to negotiate the American withdrawal from Vietnam.

"The forces were placed there with great unanimity at the time, and wound up dividing the country," Kissinger said. "So this is a special concern I have."

It's a legitimate concern and one that every citizen should share. The issues are not at all clear in Kosovo. A very large part of the conflict is religious in nature. Most of the Albanians are Muslims, having chosen conversion to Islam during the Ottoman Turk occupation, rather than suffer the discrimination afforded Christians. The Muslims have tried for at least 100 years to drive the Eastern Orthodox Serbs out of the Kosovo area. In the early part of the 20th century, about 150,000 people fled Kosovo and Metohia, a third of the overall Serb population in those parts. Despite the persecution and the steady outflow of people. Serbs still accounted for almost half the population in Kosovo and Metohia in 1912.

The serfdom system was abolished in the region only after the Turks were forced to relinquish the area after World War I.

According to one historian of the region, "The ethnic Albanian and Turkish population in Kosovo and Metohia were reluctant to reconcile with living in a European-organized state where, instead of the status of the absolutely privileged class they had enjoyed during the Turkish rule, they acquired only civil equality with what had previously been the infidel masses."

Class warfare was added to religious conflict and land conflict.

How is it, then, that today 90% of the people of Kosovo are Albanian? Historian Dusan Batakovic wrote that after the German occupation of Yugoslavia, "Serbia came under direct German occupation, and its individual parts divided among the allies of the Third Reich. During the April war, armed groups of ethnic Albanians attacked the army, unarmed settlers and native Serbs.

Kosovo along with Macedonia and parts of Montenegro and Macedonia were annexed to Greater Albania under Italian protectorship. Almost all settlers’ houses were set afire within just a few days, their owners and families killed or forced to leave for Montenegro and Serbia. Forced migration is believed to have encompassed some 100,000 Serbs from Kosovo and Metohia.

From 1941 to 1944, ethnic Albanians serving the Italian and German occupation authorities killed some 10,000 Serbs; the worst of sufferers were Serbs in Pec and Vitomirica where ethnic Albanian volunteer formations wrought terror: before executing their victims they gouged out their eyes, sliced off their ears and severed other parts of their bodies. Dozens of Orthodox churches were destroyed, set afire and looted, priests and monks were arrested and killed and many Orthodox cemeteries desecrated. Divided up into several police and paramilitary formations, ethnic Albanians were in the forefront of the massacres, and the German command was forced to intervene to stop them. Ethnic Albanians used various forms of intimidation in an effort to drive away the remaining Serbs from Kosovo.

After the collapse of Italy in 1943, Kosovo and Metohia came under German administration."

Somehow, the media of America has totally ignored the 20th century suffering of the Serb people. Their side of the conflict is literally almost never told. In the current situation, while the KLA leaders have not yet signed the so-called "peace" document, no threats have been reported to force them to sign. Yet Clinton seems anxious and determined to bomb the Serbs. Why no threats to bomb the KLA if THEY don't sign?

Kosovo is part of Serbia. Only under Axis occupation during World War II was Kosovo "part of Albania." Only by driving out or killing thousands of Serbs in Kosovo did the Albanians Muslims become the dominant group in Kosovo. Where are the Albanians getting their military weapons and financial support? They are using sophisticated modern weapons and are dressed, in recent pictures, in camouflage uniforms that look American to me.

If troops are sent to Kosovo, America had better be prepared for casualties. They will not be dealing with an organized government among the Kosovo Albanians. They are a collection of factions with a history of kidnapping and torture to gain control.

March 23, 1999

"If you listen to my show a lot you'll remember that last week Colonel David Hackworth said that many of the weapons being bought and paid for by the Kosovo Liberation Army are being bought and paid for by drugs," Mike Reagan told his listeners last night.

The Prague Post reported yesterday that one of the "drug gangs" of the Kosovo Albanian "Kosovo Liberation Army" had been arrested.

"It seems when there's drugs the President of the United States somehow always comes down on the side of the drug lords. Just as Hollywood always seems to come down on the side of communists and uplifts them, the President always uplifts those who are dealing with drugs.

"He says there's a war on drugs? Maybe there is a war that is going to begin this week that's going to be paid for by drugs and we're going to be part of it."

Members of the Senate and even a presidential Candidate for the year 2000 spoke up on the subject of Clinton’s determination to wage war for the KLA:

"I'm afraid we may be starting something we can't get out of," Senator Don Nickles (R-Oklahoma) said during debate on whether to block funding for military action in Kosovo unless it was authorized by Congress.

"If we start a massive bombing campaign, we're going to war," Nickles said.

Several senators called for a congressional vote on authorization before any U.S. troops are committed to what they said was essentially a civil war.

"I don't think the president has a right to declare war, and under the constitution he certainly doesn't," Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) said. "And under the War Powers Act, it takes an emergency. This is not an emergency."

Others also questioned the precedent it would set if the United States bombed a sovereign nation because it would not sign a "peace agreement" it had no part in writing and questioned whether the United States should bomb the Yugoslavian Serbs into signing a peace agreement they did not want.

"That's a precedent I don't want to be involved in," said Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who added he did not believe NATO's charter allowed for offensive military actions.

Increasingly it appears that Clinton may find himself without the funds to launch still another battlefront and it is crystal clear that the disagreement at the United Nations is not the "minor" problem Clinton is trying to make the American people believe. At least two permanent members of the Security Council - Russia and China - will not support the bombing of Yugoslavia.

The more the American people, including the Senate, find out about the facts of Kosovo, the less enthusiastic they will become. Clinton CAN'T rely on the US Senate, who is already threatening to yank his funding for a Kosovo War. So far, the deaths in Kosovo amount to less than 1% of the Kosovo Albanian population, and about 2% for the Kosovo Serb population - a total of approximately 2,000.

There is little doubt that the U.S. bombing will more than double that figure while adding American deaths to the toll. In Clinton's twisted mind, sending American soldiers into Kosovo to be shot at by drug lords on one side and well-armed Serb soldiers on the other is called "peace," providing air cover for Europe's top drug lords is called "winning the drug war" and vetoing the partial birth abortion bill passed twice by Congress is called "saving the children."

I guest that is what happens when voters choose leaders with no moral fiber and a talent for lying.

March 26, 1999

With the Western media ousted from Yugoslavia, those who make their living reporting and commentating on the news were almost at a loss on what to report yesterday. Most of the day they bemoaned the "news blackout" caused by their being ordered out of Yugoslavia. Most of the day news anchors talked with each other about the sudden, surprising, to them, hostility the usually "lethargic" Serbs in Belgrade were showing towards "Western journalists."

The journalists should have remembered that there are a lot of displaced Serbs living in Yugoslavia today, such as the 300,000 who were driven out of their homes the last time Clinton decided to bomb the Serbs - when he allowed Iranian weapons and "advisors" through the UN blockade for the Bosnians and Croatians. Women and children, whose husbands and fathers had been killed in the fighting, were still living in unused Serb Army barracks the bombs pulverized.

As long as they had electricity for their computers, many Serbs were able to send e-mail messages to their family and friends in other countries describing their experiences, experiences the Western press would never have seen or reported from the comfort of Belgrade's finest hotels. One of the comments was sent by a young student, Zorica Zukovic in Novi Sad, which was devastated by American bombs. In a poignant appeal to ``young generations around the world" she asked: "Is your conscience clear tonight in your discotheques?´´ People gathered around her and applauded, some chanting support for Milosevic. An older woman cried while chanting ``Slobo! Slobo!´´ Even political opponents of Milosevic are cheering his resolve to resist which they all believe is the destruction of their nation.

"Wag the dog II" wrote one Serb. "After all Bill (Clinton) has got to get people's minds off his selling technology to the Chinese. Plus what a better way to disarm the US than by using up all [their] weapons. Remember [they] aren't replacing any of these bombs and cruise missiles."

Watching on TV while our missiles and bombs kill people and blow up homes and factories - the livelihood of the people in a small nation - I get a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. Can this really be America doing this?

"Why is the EU so quiet on this; was the mass resignation of the committee just a ploy to make us think there was no other power in place to do the job? Or stop us? I think this is an ambush and we have been set up," another observed.

Yet, there is something almost ominous about the seeming helplessness of the Serb Army and Air Force in the face of the pounding the Serbs of absorbing in these bombing raids. A total of 2,000 people have been killed since the KLA began its ethnic cleansing of the remaining Serbs in the Kosovo early last year. Over 20% of the people, double the 10% Serb population, who died are Serbs A scant 40 years ago, Yugoslavia was a multinational state, ruled by Tito, a Croatian, composed of five major national groups: Of the 18,500,000 people, 7,066,000 were Serbs; 3,936,000 were Croats, 1,487,000 were Slovenes, 893,000 were Macedonians and 466,000 were Montenegrins. "About one million Muslims of undeclared nationality lived in Bosnia-Hercegovina and are considered Yugoslavs," the World Book Encyclopedia of Nations said, "12% of the total were Albanians (754,000) and the rest were Hungarians, Turks, Slovaks, Gypsies, Bulgarians, Germans, Romanians, Ruthenians, Wallachias, Italians and Czechs."

How, do you suppose, in 40 years that did a so-called persecuted, "ethnically cleansed" minority of 754,000 Albanians in 1960 grow to 1,800,000 people in the Kosovo province alone in 1998, when they began to demand the province as their own country? If, as Albanian propaganda claims, there has been "ethnic cleansing" of Albanians in Kosovo over these last 40 years, how did the Albanian population INCREASE by more than 100% in the country of Yugoslavia, and the Serb population DECREASE from 7,066,000 in 1960 to a mere 6,712,849 in 1998 according to the World Almanac? As we discovered recently in articles printed in the Czech Republic, Italy and Germany, the Kosovar Albanian rebel army, the KLA, is reported to have a lucrative business going on in furnishing heroin to drug markets all over Europe, which has enabled them to buy the most up-to-date weapons on the market.

Yet even respected members of Congress are urging that we "arm the KLA" rather than send in American ground troops. The KLA is ALREADY armed. They have more modern weapons that the Yugoslav police. Just this week, on March 23, "Albanian terrorists fired from sniper rifles, mortars and anti-tank grenade launchers on the police patrol on the Srbica - Glogovac road."

The police fired back and the chase after the attackers is under way."

The polls consistently show the American people are not supporting Bill Clinton in these bombing raids. Yet, we are being told that the raids will continue until Milosevic agrees to give away part of his country. Hitler didn't succeed in getting the Serbs to give away their country. That decision in 1941 cost the life of one in seven of the Serb people during the Nazi occupation. Yet, we are told that the Serbs must be bombed until they agree to give up part of their land to the Albanians. This must be done, lest Milosevic somehow turn into another monster, like Adolf Hitler, who "ethnically cleansed" Europe of most of its Jews, over 14% of its Serbs and the majority of its Gypsies. .

And, we are being told we must stand by and watch, and not demand an end to the bombing. We have been told that the destruction of Yugoslavia and the slaughter of the Serb people is necessary to convince the world that Bill Clinton and NATO aren't chicken.

As we watch on our TV screens the flower of America's youth is being used to slaughter an ethnic group that has refused to approve a plan which makes Europe's major drug lords the rulers of a European nation. The analogy to Hitler may be applicable - but it doesn't appear from the record that the new Hitler is Slobadan Milosevic. Will we sit idly by and pretend it isn't happening, like the Germans did 50 years ago?

March 30, 1999

We have been bombing Yugoslavia for 6 days and it is beginning to dawn on more and more people that somehow the highly sophisticated weaponry which America has believed could give it unquestioned dominance in battle with other super powers, such as China or the once formidable USSR has failed its stated mission. It was supposed to bring Slobadan Milosevic running to the table to sign a "peace" contract he doesn't like. Of course, in contract law, any contract that was signed under such blatant threats at gun point would be unenforceable. That hasn't bothered Bill Clinton. He was certain that all he needed to do was threaten to bomb or, if Milosevic was obstinate, actually BOMB Yugoslavia for a few days and Milosevic would sign a document which would bring a foreign occupying force into Kosovo.

This is one of those military situations where one side had prepared defenses for the last war fought and the other side was fighting a new kind of war that had never been fought before - and would win a stunning victory.

The only problem is figuring out which combatant is which. Is victor going to be Clintonoid America with its stealth bombers and sophisticated bombs that can destroy cities from afar? How

can Yugoslavia, a poor country the size of the State of Kentucky, win? It is being attacked by the best military hardware of the United States of America.

Yet, the U.S. certainly seems to be losing so far.

Milosevic simply did not DO what he was ordered to do by Bill Clinton. He didn't sign a paper agreeing to allow foreign troops into Kosovo, an agreement which was clearly written from the Albanian perspective. At the end of three years a vote would be held to decide whether Kosovo, which is about 10% of Yugoslavia, would be allowed to secede. The threat to the cradle of the Orthodox Eastern Church of the Serbs instantly unified the Serbs throughout the world behind a man that many of them actually don't like. Milosevic would not sign and Clinton ordered missiles and bombs to force him to change his mind. Obviously, no exit strategy was planned in the event Milosovic refused to sign. Clinton arrogantly announced he WOULD sign or his country would be destroyed. After all, Clinton is the leader of the First World who holds the power of life or death in his hands (among other things…). How could some pipsqueak country like Yugoslavia DARE challenge the billions of dollars of military hardware at his fingertips?

Clinton started the bombs and what the president for the Serbian Unity Congress, Desko Nikitovic called a "campaign of emotional spin" began. It used to be called war propaganda. This cleared the way for Milosevic to respond by allowing the Serb military leaders to go forward with a plan to solve the problem they believed would take 4-5 days - annihilating the KLA.

As the super-tech bombs dropped on Belgrade and Pristine, Milosevic's army began the Serb defense - not by mounting an all out attack on the missiles and bombs, which they undoubtedly could not stop, but by addressing the root of the problem at hand - the rebel Albanians who had moved into the area in the last 40 years.

CNN yesterday gave several figures for the number of Albanians being mistreated. In one day there was heard every figure from a "trickle" of refugees coming across the borders to James Rubin's "60,000 in four hours arriving in Albania." The UNHCR said more than 12,000 refugees had "reached Montenegro from Pec in the past 48 hours." One commentator claimed that 500,000 had "lost their homes" and were refugees.

"Slobadan Milosevic had been quiet on the Yugoslav military's insistence on taking out the whole KLA network for months and was losing their confidence, " according to on Serb source. "In the context of looming airstrikes and needing to fufill three objectives: support of the people, support of the military, and insurance against the KLA, Milosevic gave the Yugoslav Army free reign to make good on their claim that they could take out the KLA in 4-5 days."

This brings together some loose ends. Milosevic's strategy in this strange new Humanitarian-e-mail war has emerged. It should be obvious to everyone by now that the Clinton spin machine is trying to convince the American people, and hopefully the world, that he is a great humanitarian world leader who ordered the bombing of the Serbs to save the down-trodden Albanians from disaster. He fully expected Milosevic to do his part in saving the Clinton administration legacy by surrendering to his ultimatum.

Milosevic, clearly a wily fellow, didn't play his part right. He not only didn't surrender, he took the bombing of his country as a declaration of war - which of course it was.

It appears that buses and trucks are transporting Albanians to the border towns of and they are walking across into Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, etc. CNN plays up the story that the people at the border are "mostly women" although they appear on camera to be fairly mixed women and men. The men, so the reports go, are being taken off somewhere else by Serb army units. Those arriving at the border do not appear to be hurt or sick or mistreated. They may be uncomfortable, but they look fine - even reasonably well dressed. The Kosovo Albanians have up to a 70% unemployment rate which, of course, makes them just about as unwelcome in the border cities as the unemployed blacks of the south were in Northern cities in the 1950s and 1960s. CNN claimed that the refugees were saying that the Serbs were telling them to "ask NATO" for protection.

Milosevic's winning strategy in Clinton's "humanitarian" war is to give Clinton all of Yugoslavia's humanitarian problems to solve. Miloesevic seems to be delivering the "problem" that Clinton wants to "solve" to his doorstep. He is saying, in effect, "You want to help the Albanians? Great! We'll deliver them to you and you can help them!"

Guess who is going to foot the bill for creating comfortable living quarters and finding jobs for those Albanians? You guessed it! The American taxpayer. There are 1,800,000 of them in Kosovo. So far, based on the various numbers given out on CNN, we may only have about 2-5% of the Kosovo Albanians where we can easily care for their needs. We've only seen the tip of the humanitarian iceberg.

With the public already unhappy about Clinton's war with the Serbs, it will be Clinton, not Milosevic trying to figure out how to get out of the situation without admitting defeat and without being the war criminal who is killing civilians by bombing army barracks or refusing to fund the resettlement of Albanians in the countries of their choice - probably the United States. Could he save his legacy by sending in ground troops? Probably not. I don't think the American people are ready for another Vietnam just yet.

And where does the e-mail come in? It's e-mail from inside the combatant nations that will determine who wins and who loses this new 21st century, politically-correct humanitarian war.

Clinton has clearly won hands down on the "I feel Your Pain" strategy in the art of politics today. However, Milosevic is about to trap him in a humanitarian morass that will keep him occupied until his term ends in a wave of angry demonstrations to get us OUT of Albania.

How do we know when the war is won or lost? Listen for Bill Clinton to brag about how he is stopping the bombing for "humanitarian" reasons.

March 31, 1999

Yesterday on Larry King Live, in discussing the obvious trap Slobadon Milosevic has set for the Clinton administration, David Gergen, who was once a Clinton advisor made two amazing statements: "He only has about 48 hours to turn it around" and "United States' honor is now at stake and Melosevic is spitting in our eye."

Another of his guests, Ivo Daadler of the Brookings Institute, candidly admitted "We are losing" yet went on to say "We must not allow ethnic cleaning or genocide."

The imperturbable Lucky Larry asked, "Why does saving face matter?" His question recognized the fact that it is not America's honor that is at stake here. It is Clinton's arrogance and America's pride that is at stake, not America's honor.

Had we not already abandoned our honor, we would not be bombing Yugoslavia. There is absolutely nothing honorable about trying to force another group of people to give up their sovereign rights at gun point. America's honor was abandoned when we allowed Bill Clinton to remain in office after it was clear to all that he had no honor, no integrity, and was representing the very basest and destructive element of American society.

This is the first time in a long time we have heard anyone on the talk shows discuss "honor" without furtive snickering. The media long ago decided it, like character, was not expected or needed in the highest levels of government. For the young folk out that who probably have never heard of anyone talk about honor before, when we say that a person is "a man of honor" or that a nation is "honorable" it means that the person or nation has a specific character trait that is best described as "personal integrity."

A person of integrity is a person who is responsible. He can be depended on to act in accord with high standards of right. An "honorable" man in public life, or leader of a nation, would refuse a bribe, for example. Deceiving others would be considered a very "dishonorable' act.

In describing Honor the World Book Encyclopedia says, "It would be doubly dishonorable for a man to accept the bribe and then try to deceive himself into believing that it was all right to do so, since he could use the money to good advantage" - i.e. something like getting re-elected president with funds provided by Chinese and Indonesian military seeking trade favors or nuclear secrets. "For in deceiving himself he would have denied his own conscience and thereby, in a sense, destroyed a part of himself. Integrity means personal 'wholeness' or moral soundness. The honorable man will not let his integrity be destroyed or weakened by acts of self-deceit."

One of the participants in the discussion answered King's question about "Why does saving face matter?" by saying that, if we back away from the bombing now, no one will believe us. "If bombs won't work (in bringing Milosevic and his nation to their knees) ground troops will have to be sent in."

This is the clarion call for the killing of or other means of removing Slobodan Milosevic by American military forces by sending in an army of at least 200,000 foreign troops. New assaults by the U.S. are planned apparently against the nation's infrastructure - electricity and water supplies, in a determined effort to force the Serbs to give up control of Kosovo to the Albanian immigrants. President Clinton announced the stepped up attacks by saying that the "international community" may begin to question the "right" of Yugoslavia to Kosovo, which is the heart of the Eastern Orthodox Serbian Christians. This, of course, is what the Serbs have been saying was the goal of the Rambouillet Agreement which the Serbs refused to sign.

In six days of bombing the death toll is already over 1,000 people, which is half the death rate for the entire year prior to the American attacks. Last night the United States embarked on an escalated bombing campaign targeting buildings in downtown Belgrade, in an acknowledgment that air strikes have failed to halt the assault in Kosovo or sufficiently damage the Serb military, two senior American officials said.

Such attacks, which would probably include government centers like the Interior and Defense Ministry buildings in the Serb capital as well military targets elsewhere in the country, represent a major change in tactics. Until now, the U.S. has said it largely limited its bombing to air defense systems, factories and military installations on the outskirts of Belgrade and forces directly involved in the Kosovo campaign.

The comment by David Gergen that solutions would have to be found within the next 48 hours illustrates the rapidity with which the situation has deteriorated in the bombing campaign. Clearly it is obvious to all that the plan failed. Not only have more people been killed by the bombs but the bombing has appears to have resulted in a large and increasing number of refugees. The UN High Commissioner put the number of refugees which have left Albania in the last week at 77,000 - that is only 4.2% of the 1,800,000 ethnic Albanians in Kosovo and would indicate that the use of the word "genocide" is primarily the desire on the part of the Clinton administration to cover up a foreign policy fiasco which is leading to more death and destruction, not less.

It also appears to give credence to the claim that those being escorted to the border of Albania may be illegal aliens, rather than citizens of Yugoslavia. In recent years, with the disintegration of the Albanian government and 70% unemployment, the increased influx of Albanians into Kosovo has been a growing political problem for at least 10 years. With the just announced decision to destroy the civilian infrastructure, of course unemployment, religious and ethnic resentments will escalate. Continued bombing will not solve any of the underlying problems, and will, in fact, make it worst. The only response from the White House is more threats, and the promise of more deaths.

To go back to the claim that this is matter of "honor" to not back down - World Book notes in defining "honor" - "Our democratic way of life would be impossible without self-discipline and trust. Democracy exists only where most of the people feel a sense of responsibility to themselves and to others. A man of honor is a man that may be trusted."

It's only been a few weeks since almost the entire Congress, Republicans and Democrats, voted on articles of impeachment or censure motions which made it clear that over 95% of Congress STATED that William Jefferson Clinton had "lost the trust" of the American people. He is brought the nation to the brink of all-out war, as members of the Russian Duma threaten to supply arms to the Serbs while members of the US Congress threaten to supply the KLA, which was labeled a terrorist group less than a year ago.

And the fight is over honor? William Jefferson Clinton has no honor to defend and if we continue following his corrupt foreign policy, neither will the once-great country he has indelibly befouled.

April 3, 1999

Americans have become so jaded with the make believe I-feel-your-pain compassion of Bill Clinton in a culture being drenched with computer war games, gore and violent end-of-the-world fake wars in movies and videos that they seem almost beyond feeling real compassion. It seems that many Americans don't feel anything - until one or another of the spin doctors tell them what they SHOULD be feeling.

In the last few days we have been treated to a pure propaganda barrage designed to teach you to hate the Serbs. You are supposed to get emotional about the Albanians in Kosovo who are being driven in trucks or put on trains and taken to the border; required to walk a few hundred feet to the other side into the arms of waiting Refugee aide workers, put into other trucks and buses, fed, and taken to shelter somewhere down the mountain. This, Clinton, Gore, CNN's Christiane Amanpour and her husband Undersecretary of State James Rubin inform you, is "genocide."

However, missiles lobbed into Old Belgrade taking out buildings housing the Serb and Yugoslav Ministries of Internal Affairs, which are 300 feet from the maternity wing of Belgrade's University Hospital, is something to cheer about, as we watch the evacuation of the babies and mothers from the Maternity Hospital, and people of Novi Sad of 26 different ethnic backgrounds weeping as they place flowers on the ruins of an old bridge across the Danube that was leveled by guided missiles from American ships in the Adriatic Sea. Why would people cry about an old bridge that didn't carry much of the city's traffic anyway?

And, why is America bombing Yugoslavia anyway?

"It's about our values," Clinton said, explaining his position to an organized labor group during a speech at a Washington hotel on March 23rd, the day before he ordered the bombing raids. "What if someone had listened to Winston Churchill and stood up to Adolph Hitler earlier? How many people's lives might have been saved? And how many American lives might have been saved?"

It's interesting the Clinton used that particular analogy, since the Serbs were the only group on the Mainland who actually DID stand up to Adolph Hitler when the Romanians, Bulgarians, Albanians, Croatians, Slovenes and Muslims joined with the Axis powers.

During the Clinton Tyranny, once again Yugoslavia has deteriorated into a group of warring nation-states. America has been the bastion of liberty for the Serbs. America brought release from the murderous heel of Hitler. What Serb could have believed that their heroes fifty years ago would follow in exactly the same path as Adolf Hitler - even to the point of bombing them on one of their holiest days - especially after so much was made by the Clintonoids about avoiding bombing on the Muslim's Ramadan?

Speaking to American Legion members in Washington on March 23rd, Al Gore said: "If Milosevic does not call off his attack and stop the slaughter of innocent men, women and children, we are determined to act to diminish the military power that he has turned ruthlessly toward the Kosovo people and help the Kosovar Albanians win the safety, security and self-government they deserve."

Milosevic was determined to stop the marauding KLA which roamed Kosovo committing terrorist actions against both Serbs and Albanian Kosovars. Even the U.S. State Department was calling the KLA a "terrorist organization" last year and it is still listed as one of the top 100 Terrorists Groups in the world by the Federation of American Scientists.

Why are we obliterating Yugoslavia? Because we have lost our moral base and the moral strength to rid ourselves of a leader who would bomb Belgrade on Good Friday - following in the footsteps of Adolf Hitler.

And why are the Serbs crying about our destroying a rusty old bridge? They cry for us. For America has lost its soul, as surely as Yugoslavia found its soul when it stood against Hitler.

April 5, 1999

As the air strikes against Yugoslavia increase in intensity, causing a humanitarian crisis for both Kosovo Albanians and Serbs, the driving force behind decisions made to continue the slaughter is not about America's national security. It is not right or wrong. It is not ethnic cleansing, although we hear a lot about the horrors of ethnic cleaning from CNN's Christiane Amanpour, now that the victims of the ethnic cleansing are Albanian Muslims.

The national group which has suffered the most severe dislocation in the last few years has been the Serbs. Three years ago there were over a million Serbs in Croatia. Then, Bill Clinton allowed arms from Iran through the UN blockade to the Bosnian Muslims. Since they had to go through Croatia to get to Bosnia, the Croatians took their share. U.S. bombers began bombing the Serbs and the Croatians drove out 300,000 or more of the 1.2 Million Serbs who lived in the Krajina region of Croatia.

Dr. J.P. Maher, professor emeritus of linguistics at Northeastern Illinois University, wrote recently "There are now 450,000 Serb refugees from Croatia and West Bosnia in Republika Srpska (Bosnian Serb Republic), driven out by Croats and Americans. Serbia has 1,000,000 refugees. Many are Croats, Muslim Bosnians, Albanians who do not wish to live under Nazi and Islamic dictatorship. That's why they fled to Serbia." As we bomb Belgrade, almost 9% of the 1.2 million population of the city are ethnic Albanians.

The ethnic story of Yugoslavia, before and after its breakup, is revealed in World Almanacs. In 1985, five years after the nation's Croatian communist dictator Tito died, the World Almanac showed the population including all the various break-away groups, was 22,826,000 in a country about the size of Wyoming, 98,766 square miles. Serbs were the largest of the ethnic groups, with 36% of the population. Croats were 20%, Bosnia Muslims 9%, Slovenes 8%, Macedonians 6%, Albanians 8%, Montenegrin Serbs 3% and Hungarians 2%. The religions were: Orthodox 50%, Roman Catholic 30%, Muslims 10% and Protestants 1%.

By 1993 the World Almanac showed that the ethnic groups, using 1990 figures, in what was left of Yugoslavia as : Serbian 36%, Croats 20%, Bosnian Moslems 9%, Slovenes 8%, Macedonians 5% and Albanians 8%. However, whereas before there was a population of 22,826,000 people and 98,766 square miles of territory, after the secession of several states, it had only 10,337,000 people and 39,000 square miles. In other words, it lost 61% of its land, while losing 55% of its people. So, it became more crowded. In 1993 Croatia, which had been recognized by the European nations as an independent country; had 4,763,000 people, 75% of whom were Croats, and 18% were Serbs. That would be about 857,340 Serbs in Croatia. The religion was mostly Roman Catholic.

In 1993 the World Almanac showed the new nation of Slovenia with a population of 1,974,000 to be mostly Roman Catholic, and no other ethnic group than Slovenes.

As for Bosnia-Herzegovina, the 1993 World Almanac showed a population of 4,365,000 with an ethnic mix which was 43% Moslem Slav, 31% Serb, 17% Croat. That would indicate there were 1,353,150 Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina. There were more Serbs in Bosnia than there are Albanians in Kosovo.

By 1998, in spite of the loss of lives due to war, the World Almanac showed an increased population in Yugoslavia of 10,665,317. The ethnic mix was 63% Serb, 14% Albanian, 6% Montenegrin. It showed 65% Orthodox, 19% Muslim and 4% Roman Catholic. It is still very much an ethnically mixed nation, but with a higher percentage of Serbs.

However, the Serb population of Croatia had dropped from 18% Serb to 12% Serb, and its Croat population had risen from 75% to 78% Croat. This was due to the Croatian ethnic cleansing of Serbs out of the Krajina region of Croatia. One third of the Serb population was driven out at gun point in 1995, over 300,000 people - but the world didn't even notice. Could it have been that Christiane Amanpour, a Muslim, did not think the refugees were a sad story when it was mere Serbs?

And, note the difference in the 1993 and 1998 Albanian population in Yugoslavia. While the population only went up 300,000 in Yugoslavia, the Albanian population rose from 8% to 14 % in 5 years! That would indicate an increase in the Albanian population of 639,616 people!

Have you ever noticed that Christiane Amanpour NEVER asks the Muslim Albanian refugees how long they had lived in Kosovo? Why is Clinton so determined that all those recent immigrants, most of them illegal immigrants, into Kosovo will return to Kosovo? Why should Yugoslavia be the nation that has to take all the Albanians who fled their own country after its Stalinist communist government and economy collapsed in 1992?

In the 1998 World Almanac, the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, with a 38% Muslim population shows NO ethnic Albanians, 40% Serbs, and 22% Croats. In Slovenia, the 1998 World Almanac showed a population that was 96% Roman Catholic, 91% ethnic Slovenes, 3% Croat and NO Albanians.

Lt. General Odom observed on Geraldo Rivera's show said last week that while he did not "think it was wise" for Bill Clinton to "go to war this way" - a way that he seemed to agree had unified the Serb people worldwide behind Slobodan Milosevic. However, he went on to say, "That is past. We ARE at war." The only solution his military mind could countenance is to now invade not only Kosovo, but march on to Belgrade, subdue the Serbs, remove their elected government, which includes Milosevic, and be prepared to stay there for 50 years to force them to let the Albanians, a very large majority of which are illegal aliens in Kosovo "come back to their homes."

Our government and military leaders are not even pretending to find an honest, fair, or even realistic solution to the Kosovo question. They don't even want to talk about the number of Serbs who have been killed by Albanians in Kosovo. What is at stake is their pride and Clinton remaining as "NATO's leader."

Is this really about Clinton wagging the dog to cover up misdeeds involving our national security and China? Of course. But that isn’t necessarily the only dubious reason. Another problem is simply that no one in Europe wants the Albanians in their country and Clinton and the European Union plan to MAKE the Serbs take them. Why? Well, the Germans, Croats, Slovenes and other former Axis nations of World War II hate the fact that only the Serbs had the guts to stand up to Adolf Hitler. They all hate the Albanians and think they might assuage their guilt for being weak while getting back at the Serbs for their valor if they force the Serbs to take on the Albanians so none of them come into THEIR countries.

Prepare your mind and hearts for lots of young Americans coming home in body bags, folks. The Serbs are not going to let Bill Clinton run their country. The General is right. The only way we can FORCE them to do it is to be prepared to bomb them into oblivion and then keep a large army in Yugoslavia for the next fifty years. The cost would probably run into $200 to 300 billion a year.

Surely there is a better way than Gen. Odom's odoriferous solution. Neither the racism of Europe nor Bill Clinton’s ego are good enough reasons for young Americans to die.

April 7, 1999

Bill Clinton and his shills keep saying that he will not send American ground troops to Kosovo. However, it seems clear that ground troops ARE going to be sent by Mr. Bill. Clinton has just announced that he is sending up to 24 Apache helicopters along with 2,000 to 2,700 American troops as "air support."

Igor Ivanov, Russia's foreign minister, said yesterday that the U.S. is planning to send 100,000 (mostly European) ground troops to Kosovo in the next 15 days, according to Agence France Presse (AFP). The goal of the operation would be to separate Kosovo from the rest of Serbia and set up a provisional government, AFP said, citing the deputy chief of staff of the Russian armed forces, Yuri Boluyevsky.

Clinton pledged to press on with "undiminished, unceasing and unrelenting" air strikes against Yugoslavia until Milosevic surrenders control over Kosovo, a State in Yugoslavia, to NATO. For the bombings to stop, Clinton said Milosevic must withdraw his troops from Kosovo, agree to allow American "peacekeepers" into the province, accept an interim "peace" deal that gives Kosovo autonomy and allow all the ethnic Albanians who have fled the region to return. In other words, only an unconditional surrender by Milosevic of his army and 10% of his country will stop the USAF from bombing Yugoslavia cities. Clinton stated, "We are prepared to sustain this effort for the long haul. Our plan is to persist until we prevail." Vladislav Javonovic, the Yugoslav Charge d'Affaires to the U.N., told CNN's Larry King Live that Belgrade was ready to offer Kosovar Albanians "a very impressive, substantial autonomy ... and, of course, safe return."

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said nearly 400,000 refugees have fled Kosovo since March 24, and that "An estimated 831,000 of the 1.8 million ethnic Albanian population of Kosovo, many of them still on the move inside the province, have been displaced from their homes."

The figure of 1.8 million people being Albanian is consistently used by the Tyranny. Where did it come from? The State Department doesn’t know, indeed doesn’t even know how many of the refugees were illegal aliens and how many were citizens. The 1998 World Almanac says the population of Kosovo is 2,000,000 people. 90% of them, Foggy Bottom says, are Albanian, which would, indeed, mean an Albanian population of 1,800,000.

Yet, World Almanacs show that in 1961 Kosovo had a total population of 963,565, of which only 642,000 were Albanian. By 1983, when Yugoslavia was still united, with a total population of 22,826,000 people, only 8% of the entire population was Albanian, a total of 1,826,080. Then four ethnic groups seceded, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, and Slovenia, leaving Yugoslavia with a population of less than 10,337,000 people. The 1993 World Almanac showed that Yugoslavia still had only 8% Albanian population, which would indicate that there were 826,960 Albanians in all of Yugoslavia.

Somehow, the State Department claims, there are now, a mere 5-6 years later, 1,800,000 Albanians LIVING IN KOSOVO ALONE! That doesn't count the 100,000 Albanians that are living in Belgrade. In fact, the apartment houses the Americans bombed yesterday were occupied by Albanians. There was a million MORE Albanians living in Kosovo and 112,000 FEWER Serbs living in Kosovo and we’re are told that Serbs were mistreating the Albanians? Why, then, did so many of them come into Kosovo illegally?

Members of Congress need to pay close attention to what Bill Clinton plans in "escorting" what appears to be close to 1,000,000 illegal aliens from Albania back into Kosovo and forcing, at gunpoint, the Yugoslavians to give up a piece of real estate which contains the cradle of their Serbian Orthodox faith to a group of Albanian Muslims. If that happens, it will only be a matter of time before some ethnic group in America wants ITS own seat in the United Nations and goes after it with the same determination as the Albanian, Macedonian, Croatian, Bosnian and Slovene minorities. Should the Cubans have part of Florida as their autonomous nation, or should Hispanics be given San Bernadino County for their ticket to the United Nations? And, what about the Cherokees and the Apaches? Shouldn't they have their own country?

Do we really want to set a precedent that would allow a United Nations army at some future time to bomb Miami or San Diego or Washington, DC until we Americans agree to give every disgruntled minority in America their own nation-state and seat in the United Nations?

Yugoslavia and Slobodan Milosevic have been very harshly judged by Bill Clinton and a vigorous propaganda campaign by people like Geraldo Rivera is working overtime to convince the American people that their judgment authorizes an incredibly harsh punishment - the destruction of their nation.

At this Easter time of year, perhaps those who believe in Jesus Christ might want to remember that he finished the Sermon on the Mount by saying, "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again."

For the non-Christians, that translates into: What goes around comes around. If we do what Clinton is planning, we better never, EVER try to get rid of California's 1,000,000 illegal aliens, if the State Department figures are correct - and not merely figures to later accuse the Serbs of slaughtering people who never existed in the first place.

April 8, 1999

In the last two weeks we have seen almost a perfect example of the traditional use of propaganda to whip up the emotions of the public, get their minds off any of the other investigations, i.e. the Chinese military connection to the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign funds. The Cox report, which indicated a threat to our national security, has not been found on any front page for two weeks. We have seen hourly emotional reports about the plight of the Albania refugees who are streaming out of Kosovo by CNN's Christiane Amanpour and others. Strangely, when somewhere between 300,000 and 700,000 Serbs were driven out of Croatia a mere three years ago and not allowed to return to their homes - some of them occupied for five generations - we saw no such pictures. In fact, the Serb refugees were hardly mentioned.

In 1995 the United States assisted the Croatians in ethnically cleansing Krajina of over 200,000 Serb civilians 'occupying' (i.e. had lived there for centuries) that region which lay inside Croatian borders. The Clinton Tyranny agreed to assist. How exactly did the West provide this assistance? They flew 4,000 air sorties against Serb defensive positions and destroyed them, killing many innocent people in the process. The media justification for this was a story of a Serb mortar landing in a market in Sarajevo, which killed 37.

According to Andrei Demuenko, Chief of Staff of the Sarajevo Sector, the fire could not have come from the positions indicated in the official report. However, his statements merely angered the UN Commission which used the event as justification for bombing the Krajina Serb farms, killing many and driving about 350,000 out of Croatia. Approximately 14,000 Serb civilians died, often horribly. In this instance, which happened only 4 years ago, the Clinton White House approved of ethnic cleansing, driving out at least 350,000 Serbs and killing 14,000 over an incident in which 37 Muslims died which was never proved to have come from the Serb positions. All through this the public was encouraged to hate the Serbs - an effort which has now become central to the message of Clinton's spin doctors who seem determined to whip up the emotions of the public to support ground troops in Kosovo.

Although at this writing it appears that the "ground troops" will primarily come from Europe, probably from some of Serbia's old enemies, it appears that most of the air support and money will come from America. The acting president of Cyprus is scheduled to fly to Belgrade today in an effort to release the three captured American soldiers in spite of Clinton rejecting, out of hand, a unilateral cease-fire proposed by Milosevic for the Serb Easter this Sunday. On top of that, the Macedonians overnight cleared out CNN's favorite Refugee center, a squalid area with 35,000 people gathered in an open area at Blace. It made great "humanitarian" pictures and reports which criticized the Macedonians and the Serbs for the plight of the refugees. The Macedonians moved them out in buses, saying it shipped 10,000 refugees to Albania and moved 25,000 others to American tent camps further in-country.

Then the Serbs unexpectedly closed the border, told the fleeing Albanians that the military operation was over, they had declared a cease-fire and they could return to their villages. After a few hours of confusion, the reporters began to criticize the Serbs for not LETTING the Albanians leave, after spending 14 days criticizing them for MAKING them leave the country. CNN then accused the Serbs of "using the Albanians as human shields" to thwart the U.S. bombing.

Meanwhile Macedonia has been flooded with more than 130,000 refugees since Clinton’s airstrikes began March 24, and it has castigated the United States for failing to stem the tide. A total of about 400,000 refugees have fled Kosovo, which would reduce the Albanian population back to its 1998 level of 1,400,000. . William Doric, a first time guest on the Geraldo Rivera Show yesterday, noted that the media was now criticizing the Serbs for doing what it has been demanding that they do since the American bombing started. Without Blace's pitiful pictures, if the captured soldiers are released on Serb Good Friday, as the United States continues its carpet bombing of civilian targets, it's quite possible that the Clinton Junta will lose the propaganda war it has been waging over the refugee problem.

April 9, 1999

CNN's Brent Sadler reported yesterday from Aleksinac, Yugoslavia "It was a night of unrelenting bombardment in the Serb town of Aleksinac. It was a night that Serbs felt suffering and pain, anger and bewilderment. Two blasts early Tuesday ripped through apartment blocks and apparent civilian homes in Aleksinac as U.S. missiles pounded targets in Serbia.

"At least four civilians were killed, 30 were injured and a medical clinic used by civilians was hit in the town, about 100 miles south of Belgrade. It appeared to be the largest civilian casualty toll since the beginning of NATO airstrikes.

'This is completely inhuman. I can't describe it,' a teacher said. 'I saved my children and I can only hope we'll be OK.'

"The point of detonation was sandwiched between a block of apartments on one side and the clinic on the other. Confusion and panic was reported as explosions hit and fires broke out.

Windows and corridors were strewn with shattered glass and splintered wood."

"People wandered around in shock. Survivors said they scrambled through debris. Firefighters doused the flames of Serb homes. The direct hits caused almost unrecognizable ruin." "The citizens of Aleksinac asked why the bombing occurred." CNN also showed Air Commodore David Wilby of Britain, NATO's military spokesman, saying, speaking from Brussels, Belgium, "Momentum (of the American bombing) is building with encouraging pace" and Serb forces are showing increasingly "defensive" postures, Wilby told a news conference at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels. "I can absolutely assure you that while NATO has attacked military targets around Pristina ... NATO has certainly not caused the reported widespread damage which we believe has been orchestrated by Serb forces."

It was also announced from Brussels that Serb TV stations, which CNN has been relying upon to broadcast information gathered by Brent Sadler in Belgrade, will be a target - inasmuch as Clinton considers the state owned TV a threat because it is saying civilians are being killed by his bombing.

The sequence of events on CNN made it appear that Wilby's statement in Brussels was a clear and obvious warning to Brent Sadler, who had just reported from Pristina, the provincial capital of Kosovo, damage to a postal and telecommunications building and other civilian areas. The authorities said 10 civilians died in U.S. attacks. Serb state television on Thursday reported explosions in the outskirts of Kraljevo, south of Belgrade, and said American attacks caused "big material damage, mostly to civilian houses."

When specifically asked by Joie Chen if the damage he was seeing could possibly have been "staged," Sadler firmly stated that he had seen many bombings and there was no way what he was seeing could have been staged. This was about as direct a contradiction of the NATO spokesman as one could imagine.

It was reported that the Yugoslav military had been urging Milosevic to let them clean out the KLA terrorists in Kosovo, saying it would only take 4-5 days if they did not have their hands tied with political constraints. Of course, when Clinton started bombing, that ended all political constraints and, from the announcement yesterday that the "war" with the KLA was over, plus independent analysis that the KLA was no longer a force in Kosovo, it appears that the Yugoslav military completed their goal. At which point they then sealed the border and started preparing for the expected next phase of the war - an American invasion.

That caused great consternation yesterday, leading to the announcement that the Serb TV would be a bomb target. On Larry King Live yesterday, Lucky Larry asked Miodrag Ilic, a former news anchor for the Serb Broadcasting Corporation and a former talk show host who has worked on and off of the Serb network for over 20 years:

"Mr. Ilic, can you tell us your reaction to the warning that we

have learned tonight from NATO: that unless Serb television

stations allow Western broadcast during two to three hour

periods everyday, they would be bombed? NATO says Serb stations

are used as propaganda. Your comments?"

MIODRAG ILIC, SERB BROADCASTING CORP.: "What would you do,

Larry, if you were me? We are professionals, and we perform our

duty. You see this, moment, it is exactly 3:02 in the morning in

Belgrade. And there are about between 800 and 900 people in this

building. There are assistants, journalists, producers, members

of the technical staff and so on. And we're performing our duty.

We have no chance to do something else, you know?

"But if it happens, then it will be the deadly strike to the

democracy, and I think it will be the beginning of the world

slavery."

King then said: "Yes, why don't -- in other words, the complaint

is that you don't carry full information. Why not?"

Ilic responded: "You see, we noticed that you are very, very

one-sided, you know. And I can ask you question, Larry. You

know, we notice that you take over our pictures exactly at 6:00

in the evening. It is our midnight news program. And after that

-- for example, on last Saturday towards the 3rd of April, you

show the burning houses of ministry of interior, but in the very

moment when we showed the babies in maternity hospital which is

only 30 yards from -- from the burning house, you broke your

program. Why? Sky News showed it.

King answered lamely: "Well, no government, though, to my

knowledge, tells an American television network what it can or

cannot carry. Is Serb television controlled by the government?"

Ilic was right. As soon as they began to show the babies, who were hurriedly taken to a basement shelter - some of them premature babies in isolettes - CNN abruptly cut away.

King made a statement: "Unless Serb television stations allow Western broadcast during two to three hour periods everyday, they would be bombed." That is about the most incredible statement I could imagine. What the White House is saying, and King is repeating, is that UNLESS Serb television broadcasts on government owned TV what Clinton is DEMANDING that they broadcast, they will be bombed. NATO is being controlled by Bill Clinton, we are told. Bill Clinton is the President of the United States, a nation with a constitution which prohibits "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble." And Larry King, instead of rising up in righteous indignation and blasting Clinton for threatening to bomb a TV station unless it broadcasts what the enemy who is bombing them ORDERS them to broadcast, meekly explains that "NATO says Serb stations are used as propaganda. Your comments?"

As King asked the question I thought, "Why would they demand that Serb TV broadcast the West's view of the war, when people in every country, including Yugoslavia, have access to CNN?!"

Ilic verified my thinking by saying to Larry King:

ILIC: I think that almost every family has the plate, and

antenna, and satellite program, and we watch CNN program every

day. So there is no secret about it. It's all a very great

theater produced by KLA, united with NATO pact and Europe

propaganda. And do you know that 70,000...

KING: You mean it's not occurring?

ILIC: ... 70,000 Albanians came back -- came home, back in

Pristina. Now they are trying -- they are criticized -- why did

they come back? They should escape. Where? Why? From what? Who

expelled them? We have many, many Hungarians, many Albanians,

all nations are here equal, all rights are equal. What are you

talking about? I visited Kosovo many times. I know Kosovo very

well. I have...

At that point, Hugh Downs who was also on the panel, interrupted with:

DOWNS: These people just picked up on their own and left?

ILIC: I beg your pardon.

DOWNS: I said, did these people pick up on their own and left

their possessions?

ILIC: I, you know -- I have -- excuse me, gentlemen. I have an

impression that you're enjoying our tragedy, really. You

produced the tragedy and you have your theater now.

Ilic was right. It was theater. It was more bread and circus to entertain the people. We are showering a small nation with hundreds of bombs and missiles. Why? Because they did not sign a one-sided agreement at Rambouillet which the KLA signed under duress. The KLA is a group that even CNN has recognized is a terrorist organization funded by heroin and Osama Bin Laden, whose agents apparently bombed two US Embassies in Africa. The US Air Force, under the control of Bill Clinton, has been used as air support for the KLA, which Milosevic now says he has taken out.

Where does that leave Clinton? Apparently it leaves him in such desperate straits that he is willing to bomb TV stations with 800 people - civilians - working in them unless they broadcast what he orders them to broadcast! And some of the most respected journalists in America - Hugh Downs, the co-anchor of ABC's 20/20, Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post, Jeff Greenfield, CNN's senior news analyst, Larry King - not only did not object to that but, after Ilic was gone they were mystified by Ilic's "theater" comment.

Larry King asked: "So in other words, if you're watching this on Mars, what do you make of it?" Ilic signed off with: "Give a chance to the peace, and everybody who committed crime should be sued and prosecuted. That would be the justice. "You cannot bring justice by bombing millions of people in their homes, destroying the private, civilian targets. That won't help. And what will be -- how do you see the future of this country of Kosovo and so on? How this -- people will live in future?

"And in the end -- in the end, allow me to tell you something like a playwright. You know, in Shakespeare's Macbeth, there is a very famous scene with Lady Macbeth rubbing her hands during a nightmare. And the verses are `All perfumes of Arabia won't wash these hands.’ It's not recommendable to soil the hands with the blood of innocent people."

That was followed by three of the most prestigious journalists in America, Hugh Downs, Larry King, Bill Bradlee and Jeff Greenfield apparently totally missing the whole point Ilic tried to make in his imperfect English. They were totally mystified that Ilic, who was watching bombs drop in his country that were destroying kindergartens and forcing the evacuation of hospital maternity wings and nurseries, would think that Sick Willie was targeting civilians.

How could such learned journalists fail to understand such a simple point? What else COULD the Serbs think? That America's much vaunted super-technology isn't what it's cracked up to be and keeps missing the target? How could they not comprehend that what we are doing in Yugoslavia is wrong. Just plain wrong.

Why Yugoslavia? Unfortunately, the answers elicit great sadness, and great anger. It is enough this day to mourn the fact that four of the most allegedly learned journalists in America would not comprehend what Ilic was saying to them. It's not just a computer game to the Serbs. It's war. They are being bombed by the America they once so loved and ordered to give up part of their country and their freedom so that Bill Clinton can paper over with faux glory his crimes and treasons.

April 12, 1999

In a conflict that has been labeled by many as a war of biblical proportions, Easter Sunday in Yugoslavia yesterday was a day I was waiting to see. On the one hand is Bill Clinton and NATO, who not only did not let up in their bombing raids, but announced bombing would be stepped up for the day when Serbs celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. In fact, the response to Spyros Kyprianou, speaker of the Cyprus parliament

said "NATO INCREASED bombings when I announced my humanitarian mission (to free the three captured American soldiers.)

America's effort to further enrage or break the spirit of the Serb people by increasing its bombing raids on their most Holy Day of the year, however, was met by a power that Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Secretary of State Aunt Madeline, and the military strategists we hear on CNN don't seem to think exists. However, others who don't quite know which side they are supposed to be on - the propaganda is so pervasive and so harsh against the Serbs - need to take note of it.

Throughout the Christian world, especially the Orthodox Christian world yesterday, people prayed for the beleaguered people of Yugoslavia.

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexii II greeted the Head of the Holy Serb Orthodox Church, His Holiness Patriarch Pavel, hierarchs, monks and believers of the Serb Orthodox Church yesterday, a day of the "holy feast of the resurrection of Christ:" He said, "Though today you are going through hard times and trials, though your cities and villages are coming under air strikes and missile attacks, the joy of the holiday and the spiritual upsurge experienced by the Serb people on this day will help you overcome the hardships and the severe trial. I wish you to rejoice on the holy day of Easter! Let your joy about the resurrection of Jesus Christ help you endure the losses and destruction! Our Lord's mercy and the prayers of all the Orthodox Churches, which are united today in one prayer for the Serb people, and for the Holy Serb Orthodox Church, will make you strong and will help you overcome all the hardships! Christ is risen! We wish you a joyous holiday of Easter. On this day of resurrection, let's rejoice and embrace each other and, with all our love for the resurrected Christ, let's say to each other: Christ is risen! Indeed, He is risen!"

What possible defense could a prayer have against the awesome power of the U.S. Air Farce against a small nation like Yugoslavia? Sunday morning's headlines told the story.

The New York Times front page lead, first sentence: "NATO blasted targets in Yugoslavia on Sunday, but cloudy weather again blocked some raids." MSNBC's Dan Goure wrote Sunday: "Weather has been the decisive factor in countless military campaigns. General Dwight Eisenhower, in his memoirs published some fifty years ago, noted with eerie prescience the kinds of problems now being experienced by NATO in Kosovo: `In Europe bad weather is the worst enemy of the air (operation) . . . Bad weather is obviously the enemy of the side that seeks to launch projects that require good weather, or of the side possessing greater assets such as strong air forces, which depend on good weather for effective operations. If really bad weather should endure permanently, the Nazi would need nothing else to defend the Normandy coast.’"

Of course, as history showed, the weather suddenly improved and D-Day, which brought about the final end of the Third Reich, went forward as planned. Clinton's attack on Yugoslavia so far has not had the cooperation of the weather, or, depending on your point of view, the blessing of God on its efforts. "For most of the first two weeks of the air campaign over Yugoslavia, NATO has repeatedly complained that cloud cover was hampering air operations and retarding the pace and intensity of the strikes against Yugoslav ground forces." Goure wrote. "On some nights, more than half the planned air strikes were aborted due to bad weather. Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon described this April's weather as the worst that had ever been seen in the Balkans at this time of year."

Only a few days ago, the weather improved and Clinton spokesmen announced a greatly stepped up bombing schedule and so much more equipment into their one available airbase, Aviano, Italy, that they were having serious logistics problems. The weather reports, so we were told, for the next few days showed clearing skies.

And, for most of the Balkan area yesterday they WERE either clear or merely scattered clouds. If Clinton had been bombing Greece, or Hungary, or Croatia or Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina, or Slovenia or Tirana, Albania they would have had scattered clouds, perhaps a little light rain, but not overcast skies, which covered most of adjoining Yugoslavia on Easter Sunday.

"And as of Friday, more bad weather was rolling in." Goure wrote. "How is it possible that the most advanced air armada in history could be rendered near-impotent by bad weather? The answer is two-fold.

"Guidance problems: Most modern strike aircraft are dependent on targeting systems that require "line-of-sight," either optical, infra-red or laser-guided systems. The effectiveness of these systems is diminished by clouds, fog and rain. Aircraft can fly below clouds, but only at greater risk from anti-aircraft fire or even of intersecting the ground.

"Fear of casualties: NATO's interest in avoiding civilian casualties creates a demand that pilots be certain about their ability to deliver ordinance accurately and safely, in terms of the danger to civilians. While fixed targets may be struck by systems that do not require a clean line-of-sight, such as cruise missiles and GPS-guided bombs, when targeting Yugoslav infantry, artillery or armor, line-of-sight and a clear "field-of-fire" are necessary. In addition, cloud cover makes intelligence collection more difficult and complicates NATO's ability to achieve accurate battle damage assessments following air strikes."

The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington, reported Sunday that "Despite bad weather limiting NATO air operations, bombs fell on Kosovo and air-raid sirens blared in several Yugoslav cities Saturday, the eve of Christian Orthodox Easter." In fact, Clinton's Easter bombs killed an 11-month-old baby, her father, Bozin Tosovic and badly injured the baby's pregnant mother in the village of Miravac, near Podujevo in Kosovo, the Pristina Media Center reported yesterday. One report noted that the victims were ethnic Turks.

The Serbs have over a thousand years of history of clinging to their faith in spite of conquering hordes of non-believers. It's happened often enough that the weak among the Serbs must already belong to some other religion - it being a whole lot easier to become Muslim than being disemboweled for persisting in being a Christian, for example. In the Bosnian conflict, by 1992 more than 96 Serb churches had been destroyed in Croatia and 46 in Bosnia. By 1999 219 Serb churches had been destroyed. The Kosovo Charity Fund in association with the International Orthodox Christian Charities was organized to try to save the remaining 110 churches in Kosovo, according to William Doric, designer of a book named "Kosovo" which was written by 7 Balkan historians and illustrated with color photographs of the historic churches.

Yesterday, in the Spokane Spokesman-Review, Kelly McBride wrote: "Embedded in the Easter story are the seeds for resolving the Kosovo conflict, said the Reverend Stephen Supica, pastor of Spokane's Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church. His congregation is home to hundreds of families with ties to Eastern Europe, including dozens of Serb immigrants. "The idea of returning good for evil is still beyond most of us,'' he said Friday. ``Christ on the cross is our example, and nothing in the Gospel accounts I read -- and that were read in every Orthodox church in the world, including all those in Albania, Macedonia and Yugoslavia -- mention cruise missiles or armed bands of men as part of His response.''

Something hasn't surfaced in this undeclared war in Kosovo. Is it simply face saving after making major political and military miscalculations about the Serbs? Why are we seeing such dedication to the KLA's view of the war, especially when one after another of their accusations have been proved to be fabrications designed to get the USA to take up the KLA side?

There is ample proof, now beginning to come out, that it was not just Serbs the KLA terrorists killed - it was Albanians who did not support them. Why is the US. Government acting as the air force for a terrorist group? Last week I said young Americans should not have to die for the Euroracism of the other NATO nations who don’t want Albanians in their countries and are determined to pawn the whole group off on the Serbs. Since then this obvious dislike of the Albanians has become very evident. The mysterious "vanishing" refugee camp, it appears, was stuffed into buses in the middle of the night and hauled away from the border of Macedonia. Whatever the real problem is, so far in 18 days of bombing, the NATO forces have, by their own admission, been seriously handicapped by the unseasonable and unexpected cloud cover. Of course, weather can be unpredictable, but when the cloud cover only seems to hover over Clinton's Serb targets, while nations on all sides of it are experiencing occasional clouds, but no cloud cover, it may very well be time for those who claim to be Christians to start paying attention.

At a minimum they need to start getting to the bottom of the facts in the matter, rather than relying on full blown propaganda that is trying to convince them to kill all Serbs. If America tries it, she may well find herself in a worse mess than she is now. The attack on Yugoslavia may resemble Russia's efforts to control Chechnya more than Vietnam. It didn't take the Russians long militarily to take control of Chechnya. What took the time was trying to MANAGE the Muslim state after taking control of it.

They failed, in other words. And so shall we.

April 14, 1999

Reports late yesterday from Yugoslavia that NATO had bombed a convoy of Albanian refugees, killing about 85, brought back a classroom memory of a report in Life Magazine, complete with pictures, of a young child crying beside the body of her dead mother, who had died in a strafing attack on civilians in Poland by the German Luftwaffe . That picture, and the horror it elicited, was enough to motivate millions of young Americans throughout the next six years to spend hours searching for scrap metal to give to the War Drive to save the world from Hitler.

Let there be no doubt in this era of situational ethics and contempt for absolutes in the realm of good and evil. Bombing or strafing helpless civilians is an atrocity. Destroying the heating plants and water plants are attacks on civilians, not the military, and certainly not the nation's leader. No fancy talk about "collateral damage" or lame excuses of "close air support" given by General Charles Wald to Ted Koppel last night is acceptable to those of us who are wired into 1999 alternative information sources. The day is gone when the Clintagon and the White House can issue press releases full of misinformation and self-serving propaganda designed to whip up support for sending US troops into Yugoslavia to finish off the Serbs after a media campaign designed to convince Americans they are all "Nazi monsters."

In a short three week period, I have seen stories break first on Yugoslav TV which showed pictures of stories such as the downed F 117 Nighthawk fighter in flames, the capture of three American soldiers and the bombing of apartment houses and a stepped up bombing campaign on Easter Sunday, to wreck the peace mission of the Speaker of the House in Cyprus. The downing of the bomber was first denied and ridiculed by reports from the Clintagon. The three soldiers, it was hinted by the Clintonies, were really only actors the "undemocratic" Yugoslav TV had cooked up in propaganda ploy. Long before the Pentagon admitted any part of the stories, it was obvious from pictures and e-mail that we Americans were not being told the truth by OUR so called "free" press - but in those cases, the Yugoslav TV was reporting accurately.

This so angered the Clintagon and the White House that they promptly threatened to bomb the Yugoslav TV unless it agreed to "broadcast 3-4 hours of Western information a day." Since CNN is available throughout Europe, including Yugoslavia, the country already HAS 24 hours a day of the White House's and the Clintagon's side of the story. Why bomb the TV station? Merely to silence the Yugoslav side of the story?

Earlier today, the Yugoslav news agency, Tanjug, said a television transmitter southwest of Belgrade had been struck by a NATO missile. The White House is losing the media war, it appears, and is determined to block out the pictures Americans are receiving through their computers on the Internet. It was late in the day when reports from Yugoslavia said that a NATO bombing attack had hit a column of ethnic Albanian refugees, killing 85 people.

The Media Center in Pristina reported that "NATO's version of events has changed frequently. At first, officials with the(NATO) alliance said it had attacked the convoy, but only military vehicles. It was later suggested that Serb aircraft were responsible. Another explanation placed blame on Serb police forces, who, having been hit by NATO planes, 'got out and….began to attack civilians in the middle of the convoy.'

The Associated Press Reported the same event as: "Columns of civilian Kosovars came under fire, as the Yugoslav government and NATO exchanged bitter accusations over who carried out the deadly attacks. Serb officials said 64 people were killed.

"An area of remote mountains along Albania's border with Yugoslavia was hit by Serb shells and automatic-weapons fire, the latest of a series of attacks that appear to be aimed against the Kosovo Liberation Army, which has sought refuge there.

"Air-raid sirens preceded a series of loud explosions in Belgrade late Wednesday. Several missiles fell in the region around Kursumlija, about 125 miles south of the capital."

The Yugoslav Online News (http://www.yu/news.asp?vest=692&top=1) reported this morning: "NATO in hunt for Albanian refugees."

"In [another] criminal attack by the aggressor flights, done from about 1 o'clock till 3 o'clock PM, [of a column of Albanian refugees] on the road from Djakovica to Prizren, who were retracing back to their homes, at least 64 people were killed, and more than 20….wounded, found Tanjug in police sources in Pristina. According to first reports, they were Albanians, mostly women and children, and from two villages from [the] Djakovica area and [the] Prizren area who were [returning] from the border in three groups to their homes. By the claims of survivors, [the heaviest] attack on the columns [came at] about 3 o'clock PM in [a] place called Bistrazin, about 10 kilometers from Djakovica on the road to Prizren. [There the] criminal flights bombed the bridge and the column of people. There, as we unofficially found out, large number of civilians [were killed].

"But at the end of a day of confused battlefield reports, all that seemed certain was that the civilians had been killed by military fire.

"NATO and the Pentagon acknowledged that allied warplanes had attacked a convoy in southern Kosovo but said initially that they had struck military vehicles. They issued a series of contradictory statements about the possibility of civilian casualties, ending with a Clintagon statement tonight saying only that the incident is `still under review.’

"Earlier Wednesday the NATO Commander, General Wesley K. Clark, said he had evidence the Serbs had shot up the refugees after allied pilots attacked military vehicles near Djakovica, in southwest Kosovo.

"But he did not produce the evidence, and later in Washington, Clintagon spokesman, Kenneth H. Bacon, said General Clark no longer believed that was true and did not have supporting evidence.

"Spokesmen said the alliance was still reviewing film from the attack and interviewing the pilots.

"The plight of the refugees has become one of the most politically charged aspects of the Balkan conflict. NATO has used the images of suffering refugees streaming out of Kosovo to muster public support for the bombing, while the Serbs have presented them as victims of the allies' bombs.

"There have been cases of errant bombs, and NATO has not always been quick to acknowledge them, but the alliance has imposed strict controls to limit the possibility of civilian casualties.

"On Monday an allied warplane twice hit a train in Serbia during a bombing run at a bridge. NATO has acknowledged that attack and said the train was hit by mistake."

Wednesday's charges and countercharges raised two possibilities: that NATO pilots had again "mistakenly" hit civilians, or that the Serbs had killed their own citizens so that they could show the carnage on television and blame the deaths on NATO.

Wednesday's incident was first reported when Yugoslav officials told Western reporters in Belgrade that allied warplanes had bombed columns of refugees in broad daylight. The Serb-run Media Center in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, charged that ethnic Albanians were killed in several attacks in the southwestern part of Kosovo, near Djakovica. Serb television showed dead civilians lying near destroyed tractors and farm vehicles.

As it rushed to counter these accusations, the Clintagon first offered a statement that allied aircraft had carried out "controlled attacks on military vehicles" at about 3:30 P.M. local time near a highway bridge just east of Djakovica. The NATO planes were fired on by antiaircraft artillery and hand-held surface-to-air missiles, the Clintagon said.

A recent poll indicated that fewer than 12% of the American public believes the media is telling them the truth. Millions of people appear to have stopped listening to network news and are moving in ever increasing numbers to Internet news sources and e-mail from people who are experiencing the bombing attacks. The Tyranny claims to have "reports" that the Serbs are the villains in this, and in all other, episodes. The Serbs, we were told, attacked the Albanians in the convoy to make the NATO bombers look bad. And just where, do you suppose, are those "reports" are coming from?" Could it have been the same source that lied about "all the moderate Albanians" being killed - only to have them show up alive an well talking with Milosevic in Belgrade or other leaders in European capitals?

Have we in American gone mad? Can't we, as a people, see we are being manipulated? We just massacred 85 Albanians in a "humanitarian" gesture to stop the "horrible" Serbs who were accused, but not proved to have, massacred 45 people in Racek? And all this from Bill Clinton, who spent the years in which HE was subject to the draft hiding out in Britain and Russia, organizing anti-war protests?

Yes, America, I think we really have gone mad.

April 16, 1999

Yesterday in San Francisco, in response to a question from an editor at the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Bill Clinton said bombing of Albanian refugees by an American pilot was "regrettable and tragic, but no reason to change the mission" and blamed the carnage on Slobodan Milosevic. He said that "the refugees would not have been in harm's way had not Milosevic's forces driven them from their homes. We cannot simply watch as hundreds of thousand of people are brutalized, murdered, raped, forced from their homes ... all in the name of ethnic pride."

The only problem with that answer of course is that these people were not brutalized, murdered or raped by Milosevic's forces. They were brutalized and murdered by having an American pilot drop a bomb in their midst after Milosevic assured them it was safe for them to return to their villages, now that the government forces have driven out, or killed, the KLA. Furthermore, they have been told, the Americans have this remarkable technology which allows them to read a license plate on a car from 30,000 feet up in the air and the American pilots are the best-educated and trained people on the face of the earth. They are not incompetent or accident-prone.

Before the Clintagon 'fessed up to the Yugoslav version of the reports - that the attacks came from NATO aircraft – most of those editors had published front page stories in their newspapers from the Associated Press which reported the Serbs "may have been responsible for the carnage." Network TV reports said the Serbs had done the bombing. Yet, surely had there actually been any Yugoslav aircraft in the skies the efficient Americans would have spotted and obliterated them. The Washington Post reported: "As a senior Joint Staff officer then reviewed the extensive precautions that pilots flying attack missions over Yugoslavia are supposed to take before dropping any bombs, Bacon phoned Belgium to talk with General Wesley K. Clark, NATO's supreme commander. Returning to the briefing room, Bacon offered another account.

"He reported that "Clark had 'verbal reports' of the possibility that after military vehicles were hit by NATO warplanes, Yugoslav forces 'got out and attacked civilians' who were traveling in the middle of the convoy."

Clinton, who never passes up an opportunity to blast Milosevic, of course didn't scold the editors for printing erroneous stories about the NATO bombing of a refugee convoy. He did criticize the press in Yugoslavia, saying, "the government run press in Yugoslavia has created an alternative reality based on propaganda about Kosovo. Thank Gaia our press and the press around the world have tried to get at and get out the truth,'' Clinton said. Long term, he said, NATO is fighting for the future and stability of multiethnic democracies in southeastern Europe, the historically troubled Balkans.

Of course, in the case of the bombed refugee story, the truth only came out because those pesky Serbs started broadcasting it all over the Internet and via e-mail. In fact, only those who have Internet or e-mail would know what Milosevic actually said about the tragic story following the incident. Milosevic said in a statement in the wake of NATO bombing of a column of refugees on the Djakovica-Prizren road:

"Today's massacre of ethnic Albanian refugees, who were returning to their homes in broad daylight, has demonstrated the NATO's most brutal aspect. Striking four times on refugee convoys cannot be described as a mistake. It was done on purpose.

"The Republic of Serbia and all its people are shocked by the horrible massacre perpetrated today by the criminal NATO air force against innocent civilians. With indignation for the perpetrators and sorrow for the dozens of innocent victims, I point to the fact that the only fault of the ethnic Albanian victims was that they had been citizens of our common homeland. These unprecedented crimes in contemporary world history are committed by those who publicly advocate respect of all human rights and freedoms, and who make special efforts, as they claim, to protect the ethnic Albanian community.

"The way they are caring for their alleged protégées is so ruthless and brutal that it has caused indignation and disbelief among all people in Serbia and elsewhere in the world. The men who gave orders to perpetrate this most horrible massacre of innocent civilians at the end of the 20th century in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province will be held responsible for their acts before the entire humanity.

"Serbia's fight for freedom, for life and for equal rights of all citizens, regardless of their ethnicity or religion, is getting its true sense of purpose following the horrible crime committed by NATO air force. Our country and all its people are courageously confronting those who think they can put the world in order by perpetrating most horrible crimes in cold blood. Despite all their terrible attacks and crimes, we shall ensure coexistence and equality of all citizens of Kosovo and Metohija and Serbia".

If we peel away the hyperbole in Milosevic's statement, there is a kernel of obvious truth that he is addressing, but which Clinton is studiously ignoring: How would you feel about your "friends" in Washington if YOU were an Albanian being bombed by warplanes with American pilots and markings? As I have said before, this is a communications-e-mail war waged not only by bombs and jets, but largely for the hearts and minds of the world's public via the written and spoken word. While the Tyranny provides reports on supposed military targets hit, the Yugoslavs concentrate on the people who were hit or affected by the bombs. In the following Yugoslav report, note the number of times the victims of bombing attacks were identified as `Albanians.’:

"In the brutal strikes by the aggressors' planes launched yesterday on the Djakovica-Prizren road against a group of ethnic Albanians returning to their homes, at least 64 people died and more than 20 were seriously injured. Having been given assurances by the State authorities that they can safely return home, several convoys of ethnic Albanians traveled in their cars from the border crossing points of 'Vrbnica' and 'Cafa Prusit' on the border with Albania, on their way back to their home when the aggressors' planes attacked them on three occasions between 1.00 and 3.00 p.m., committing a real massacre and a war crime. These were Albanians, mostly women and children, from two villages around Djakovica and from one village near Prizren. They were all getting back home in three groups from the border.

"According to eyewitness accounts, the heaviest strikes were launched against the convoys at 3.00 p.m. in the village of Bistrizin, which is 10 km away from Djakovica in the direction of Prizren, and where the criminals' jets dropped bombs and fired missiles on a column of people. Most of the civilians were killed on the spot. The aggressors apparently knew very well who these people were, because they could not have "accidentally" mistaken civilian vehicles for military ones. Therefore, it is clear that this was yet another attempt at making it impossible for ethnic Albanians to return from exile which they were forced into by NATO criminals in collaboration with the terrorists.

"...Last night, NATO aggressors continued to target both Serb and Albanian villages south of Pristina. Two missiles were fired in the area of Gracanica, which is inhabited by Serbs, and at Ajvalija, which is an all Albanian village.

"Two powerful explosions were heard today at 12.30 a.m. around Pristina. NATO monsters fired one missile southeast of Pristina in the area of Saskovac village, which is entirely Albanian populated, while the other missile fell southwest of the southern Serb provincial capital.

"The aggressors planes, which again flew over Pristina tonight, fired at 8.35 p.m. three missiles on the outskirts of the city. Two strong explosions went off from the direction of Lukare village, northeast of the city, and one explosion was heard east of Pristina."

Now, pretend you are an Albanian in one of those villages which had just been bombed by warplanes from America, and you have the opportunity to hear the American president on CNN saying to a group of American editors meeting in San Francisco, "We and our NATO allies are in Kosovo today because we want to stop the slaughter and the ethnic cleansing" and that the leader of the country you are living in, Slobodan Milosevic's aim is "to drive the Albanian majority from the province even if it means turning Kosovo into a lifeless wasteland.''

Before March 24th, 1999, your village was intact. You and your mostly non-political friends, just tried to stay alive as the KLA guerrilla bandits from your former homeland in Northern Albania and the Yugoslav police fought one another. Now your village factory where you worked has been destroyed by American bombs and you are out of a job and your children can no longer attend school because it was hit when the factory went up in flames.

You learn that someone asked Clinton about the bombs dropping on you and he replied: "a united NATO is determined to maintain and intensify attacks' against the Serbs to save Kosovo." You learn that Clinton said the bombing of fellow Albanians as they returned home which had killed several of your friends was "regrettable and tragic, but no reason to change the mission. You cannot have this kind of conflict without some `errors’ like this occurring. This is not a business of perfection.''

Your personal tragedy and sorrow and the deaths of scores of women and children from your village is nothing but a regrettable "error?" No apology? No sadness for the victims or the "error?" How do you think you might feel about Mr. "I-feel-your-pain" at that point?

Expect the anti-Clinton rallies around the world to continue and to grow in intensity. Bill Clinton challenged Slobodan Milosevic to a duel of words and bombs. So far, Clinton has won the bombing part of the duel, and Milosevic has won the war of words. It is significant that in heavily Democrat San Francisco, for the first time in 30 years when a younger Bill Clinton was organizing anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, a large group of pickets were marching and shouting "Hey, hey, Mr. Bill, how many Serbs are you gonna kill?"

April 20, 1999

"We are not going to stand by and watch the Serb authorities do in Kosovo what they can no longer get away with doing in Bosnia.." Barton Gellmon of the Washington Post quoted Secretary of State Aunt Madeleine as saying to Italian Prime Minister Lamberto Dini during a stopover in Rome, March 7, 1999. She was en route to a meeting of the six outside powers known as the Contact Group on the Balkans.

The dimwitted Albright made that statement AFTER the Croats had ethnically cleansed the Krajina Province of its Serb population, and AFTER she and Clinton had allowed Iranian weapons through the United Nations blockade to arm the Croats and the Bosnian Muslims. The largest number of refugees in the former Yugoslavia, who are victims of ethnic cleansing, are Serbs. Croatia does not list ANY other ethnic minorities, other than 5% Serb, down from its prior 14% Serb population. Slovenia and Bosnia-Hercegovina, which the American people were told fought to PREVENT ethnic cleansing, actually did the opposite. Only Yugoslavia remains an ethnically mixed state, with about 63% Serb, a percentage increase in its Serb population largely because of over 1 million refugees from Bosnia-Hercegovina, Slovenia, and Croatia. From World Almanac figures, it would appear that ALL the Albanians who lived in the break-away states are now in Kosovo - plus hundreds of thousands of new Albanians who arrived in the last 6 years. Yet, NATO has done nothing about the Serb refugees from Krajina, Croatia returning to their homes in peace, while bombing Yugoslavia to force its government to keep millions of economic refugees who fled Albania when its Stalinist government and economy disintegrated in 1991.

"Maddie, who used her seat at the Cabinet table as U.N. ambassador to press unsuccessfully during Clinton's first term for earlier intervention in Bosnia, saw Kosovo as a chance to right historical wrongs." Gellman Wrote. " I felt that there still was time to do something about this, and that we should not wait as long as we did on Bosnia to have dreadful things happen; that we could get it ahead of the curve," Albright said in an interview last Friday with Gellmon.

"By the first days of March 1998, the secretary of state had begun a conscious effort, as one aide put it, 'to lead through rhetoric.' Her targets were European allies, U.S. public opinion and her own government. That 'engagement of American prestige,' as another adviser put it, went somewhat beyond the consensus of her Cabinet peers, as did her statement that 'we have a broad range of options available to us.' "In the London conference room in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office where the six nations' foreign ministers had wrung their hands so often over Bosnia's dismemberment in 1992 and 1993, Halfbright asked them whether they wanted the same legacy for themselves. 'History is watching us, and we have an opportunity to make up for the mistakes that had been made four or five years ago,' she said, according to a government account. Her aim, one U.S. official said, was to 'put these ministers back on their heels, to put them under pressure to show some spine.'

"In Washington, a defense policy official said Notbright's remarks reverberated with some anxiety in the Clintagon. `Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves in terms of making threats,' he said of the atmosphere. Sandy "Lim" Berger, at the White House, was described by colleagues as worried about damaging U.S. credibility by appearing to promise more in Kosovo than [Clinton] was prepared to deliver."

So much for the theory that having women in public office would lead to peace.

"United Nations Security Council Resolution 1160 laid economic sanctions on Belgrade on March 31, 1998 and Clinton froze Yugoslavia's assets in the United States. But the spring and summer brought greater carnage, and a quarter-million Albanians were left at least temporarily homeless.

"At NATO's June gathering, Cohen urged his fellow ministers to authorize the military committee to begin conceptual planning for intervention in Kosovo. When the defense ministers gathered again in Portugal three months later, NATO[’s socialist, erstwhile pacifistic] Secretary-General Javier Solana told the closed-door gathering that Serbs were mocking the alliance with a slow-motion offensive aimed at keeping NATO in its torpor. Solana said one Serb diplomat, whom he did not name, went so far as to joke that 'a village a day keeps NATO away' - a phrase that Solana repeated often in months to come.

"Washington, throughout this period, spent the bulk of its political-military capital on the ongoing confrontation with Iraq. But the period between the two NATO gatherings saw a furious internal debate on whether the alliance could act militarily without explicit authority from the Security Council. On Sept. 24, a day after a carefully ambiguous Security Council resolution, Washington finally persuaded its allies to issue an ultimatum to Milosevic to pull back."

"October 13 brought the first `activation order’ in NATO's history, a formal agreement to authorize the bombing of Yugoslavia. But unbeknown at the time, the governing North Atlantic Council approved only Phase I of the three-phase air campaign, amounting to about 50 air defense targets. The real punishment of Belgrade would come in Phase II, with `scores of targets,’ and Phase III, with `hundreds and hundreds of targets,’ according to a senior White House official.

"Armed with the NATO threat, U.S. special envoy Richard C. Holbrooke persuaded Milosevic to accept a cease-fire in Kosovo and to withdraw the troops and special police who had not been there before 1998. `So you're the one who will bomb us,' Milosevic said in a can't-scare-me voice to Air Force Lieutenant General Michael Short, who accompanied Holbrooke. 'I have U-2s [observation aircraft] in one hand and B-52s in the other [both fifties-vintage aircraft and hopelessly obsolete, BTW], and it's up to you which one I'll use,' Short replied."

Increasingly, angry Serbs, Macedonians, Greeks, Hungarians, and Italians are sending e-mails talking about "Madame Dimbulb's War." According to Gellman, Aunt Madeleine was able to push her policy of threatening war after the so-called "Racak massacre" when members of the KLA, who had the previous day been engaged in a shoot-out with Yugoslav forces in the village, pointed to 45 bodies lying in the village square which, they claimed, were the result of a "massacre" by the Federal forces. According to the Serbs, 22 of those bodies were KLA fighters they shot in the battle, before withdrawing from Racek and they don't know where the other bodies came from - but they were shot at close range.

To my knowledge, no forensic work was done on the spot to determine what kinds of bullets were in the corpses, but it is an established fact that the KLA kills its perceived enemies - whether they be Serb farmers and postmen, or non-supportive Albanians. Whatever the real story of Racek, OSCE Mission director William Walker and Madeleine Dimwit took the word of known terrorists as the "truth" and the forensic experts who came in later from neutral Finland trying to figure out what happened could not because the "evidence had been tampered with."

On this evidence we are ready to start World War III?

In effect, it appears, America's foreign policy was directed by two factors: (1) the Crazy Twit's one-sided and prejudicial view of the Serbs versus the Albanians and (2) a concept of appeasement of terrorists. It is a policy born of the liberal Democrat notion that any group of people who go on a rampage and try to take by force whatever they happen to want - especially if they are a "minority" – are heroic folks fighting for their freedom. It is just that notion that paralyzed Watts and most of south-central Los Angeles and is born of the notion that laws do not need to be obeyed if you think you have a grievance of some sort.

Compare the Avenging Matron's view with the following expressed by Vanja Sibalic, an Assistant Lecturer in the Drama Arts, Film and TV at the University of Belgrade. With the university closed by the bombing, the professors, who clearly are not supporters of Slobodan Milosevic, are trying valiantly to inform the world about what has happened in their country. The following, entitled "Covering Up NATO's Balkan Bombing Blunder" was written by Filip Tunjic from an interview with Dr. Jan Oberg, Director of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research (TFF) Conflict-Mitigation team to the Balkans and Georgia, headquartered in Lund, Sweden:

"Western leaders are busy re-writing history to justify their Balkan bombing blunder. The change in information, rhetoric and explanations since the bombings started on March 24 is literally mind-boggling. Most likely they fear they have opened a very dark chapter in history and may be losing the plot. One way to make failure look like success is to construct a powerful media reality and de-construct real reality. That's the essence of media warfare and that's what happens now," says TFF director Jan Oberg.

"For instance, you must have noticed that the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA or UCK, which existed some weeks ago and allegedly participated in Rambouillet now suddenly never existed. The 13-month war in Kosovo also conveniently has been expurgated. The last few days [Bill] Clinton, prime minister Blair, NATO General Wesley Clark, foreign secretary Cook, foreign minister Fischer, secretary Unbright, defence minister Robertson and other Western leaders have explained to the world why NATO bombs Yugoslavia. They made NO MENTION of KLA or the war. Their speeches are surprisingly uniform. Their main points are:

We have evidence that Yugoslavia, i.e.President Milosevic, had a plan to ethnically cleanse Kosovo of all Albanians.

One proof of this plan is that some 700.000 have been driven over the borders; it would have been many more, if not all 2 million Albanians, had NATO not taken action.

Milosevic deployed 40.000 troops and 300 tanks in the region even while his delegation was in Paris.

'We have reports' and 'there are stories' about mass graves, rapes, and endless atrocities. We have no hard evidence, but that's what refugees consistently tell.

Milosevic is now 'a cruel dictator' and 'a serial ethnic cleanser.'

Innocent civilians are driven away 'only because of who they are and not because of anything they have done,' as Bill Clinton and Tony Blair express it.

Milosevic has not been in compliance with the agreement he signed with ambassador Holbrooke in October last year.

"Why is this not credible, why is this probably a 'narrative' made to influence emotions, perceptions, enemy images, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and individuals?

"Let me give you a few facts from my own visits and repeated meetings over the years with the civilian Kosovar Albanian leadership, the opposition and independent intellectuals in Pristina," says Oberg. "Dr. Ibrahim Rugova repeatedly told me, as he did everyone from the West who cared to listen, that he feared he could not keep the Albanian people behind his pragmatic nonviolent strategy if the West did not 'do something' such as persuade Belgrade to participate in talks mediated by the international community.

"Years ago I met Kosovar Albanians who were very critical of Dr. Rugova's 'passive' leadership and advocated guerrilla struggle as the only way out, sooner or later. In 1996 I was told by well-informed Albanian intellectuals that they would not rule out that there existed an armed fraction. Last year advisers to Dr. Rugova told me that they had heard about the liberation army as early as 1993.

"For years, I would say, Kosovo has been a police state. The only response Belgrade had to the legitimate Albanian grievances was to step up police repression. I have no doubts about the fact that there were gross, systematic violations of political, economic, cultural and other human rights. The Albanians feared Belgrade - which insisted that it was an internal problem but never took steps to find a solution. At the same time, the Albanian leaders 'needed' the repression to mobilize international support for their project of an independent

Kosovo. Thus, they refused to deal with moderate, dialogue-inclined leaders such as prime minister Milan Panic and his excellent ministers in 1993.

"Be this as it may, the truth is that there was NO war, NO mass killings, NO systematic ethnic cleansing, NO genocide. Many Albanians left because of the repression but also because of the misery, the utter poverty and lack of future opportunities for themselves and their children. Serbs, too, left for such reasons and not - as they sometimes claim - because they were victims of an Albanian genocide plan.

"The conflict that was said to have started in 1989 erupted into war in February 1998 when KLA surfaced. It can NOT be denied that KLA activity changed the situation from repression to war. The most surprising is a) that the West turned a blind eye to Albania's role as a training ground and base for KLA, b) that, in its consequences, Albanian policies amounted to de facto aggression against Yugoslavia, c) that KLA was armed by predominantly Western sources in contravention of the United Nation Security Council's embargo on any arms imports into the territories of former Yugoslavia, d) that nobody thought of closing the border to prevent spilling-in of soldiers, weapons and ammunition and the spilling-over of Yugoslav reprisals and e) that Yugoslav armed forces, by and large, let these incursions happen for months without taking action against them.

"US envoy Robert Gelbard said on February 23, 1998 that he was ‘deeply disturbed by the UCK’ and that it was ‘undoubtedly a terrorist organization.’ One week later the Yugoslav offensive against it began. So much for the present Western cover-up which seeks to make us forget the pivotal role of KLA in this crisis.

"Next, what about the argument that Milosevic did not keep his promise to Holbrooke of October last year? It would be a good point if that was not a one-sided agreement. While there were two forces fighting fiercely in Kosovo - various Yugoslav/Serb police and military forces on the one side and KLA on the other - the agreement was signed only by Milosevic. KLA declared a cease fire on their side, but never signed any document. One-party cease fires are as unique as they are untenable. We were told and saw pictures of a war that had raged in the province for 13 months. Albanians intellectuals and editors I talked with during visits to Pristina in autumn 1998 told me proudly when asked who the KLA was that 'that's every one of us, we are a people in arms.' Sheltered by the Holbrooke-Milosevic deal, the KLA seized 30% of the province's territory. Radical Albanians gave visitors the crystal clear impression that victory was around the corner. That is, until Belgrade had had enough.

"During those 13 months, around 2,000 people were killed and 250.000 people displaced - about 10% of the province's Albanians and 10% of its Serb citizens - but few of them, fortunately, fled outside Kosovo. Two weeks after NATO action began, suddenly 750.000 had run over the borders and NOW we are told that there were only innocent civilian Albanians in Kosovo who, as Bill Clinton stated it on April 12, are driven away ONLY because of ‘who they are and not because of anything they have done.’

"It seems more probable to me that people run away for three reasons, not one: a) because of ethnic cleansing by Serb/Yugoslavs who feel that the ongoing destruction of Yugoslavia is the result of Albanian policy, b) because of the war between Yugoslav and KLA forces, and c) because of NATO's bombs which repeatedly also just happen to hit civilian targets.

"Was there a plan to cleanse the area? No one who maintains it has shown any hard evidence. Before March 24 this year no politician had told us about Milosevic' alleged plan. No humanitarian organizations had warned about a major, systematic campaign to drive out 1-2 million people. If OSCE with 1,500 verifiers knew about such a plan - and they listened in on Yugoslav communication - why did it not alert the world? If Belgrade wanted to get rid of all Kosovo-Albanians, it could have done so at any time since 1991. It never touched any Albanian leader or tried to prevent the building of their parallel state. Why did NATO threaten to bomb Yugoslavia if it would not sign the Rambouillet document but said nothing about bombing it because of the existence of such a plan?

"Are 40.000 troops and 300 tanks indicative of such a plan? Hardly. Troops and tanks are not the prime tools to make people run away. They were deployed in the province when NATO deceived Yugoslavia. You see, Holbrooke probably forgot to tell Milosevic that NATO would deploy an 'extraction force' in Macedonia. Its task was to protect the 'extraction' from Kosovo of the unarmed OSCE verifiers in the event of NATO bombings - an activity that could lead to them being taken hostage by the Serbs. So, NATO's bomb threat was real from October. Would your country do nothing if threatened for months with bombings by history's second-most powerful military alliance?

"With the OSCE verifiers peacefully out, NATO did not withdraw the force but had already begun to increase it from 3.000 to 12.000 (and forgot to consult the Macedonian parliament). Yugoslavia had very legitimate reasons to see this as an extremely unfriendly "signal" and moved troops down to the Macedonian border to "signal" its determination to fight that force, should it cross the border into Kosovo. KLA was sucked in by the presence of the Yugoslav units and fighting intensified in an area where no fighting had taken place before. All this BECAUSE of NATO's policies.

"What is now called evidence of a grand design for ethnic cleansing by Western leaders was nothing but the response to NATO's remarkably unwise, clumsy and adventurous attempt to force Macedonia into the role of an ally and major NATO base. It was a perfectly natural response to NATO's repeated threat of a massive air campaign. It - predictably - resulted in an almost complete political destabilization of the Macedonian government and a socio-economic destabilization because of the NATO-provoked refugee flows.

"Finally, Milosevic is a 'cruel dictator'? Well, if so why has the West helped him be central, relied on his signature in Dayton and never extended any help to the opposition in Belgrade - not even when 1,5 million people demonstrated against him a couple of years ago? Why have Ambassador Holbrooke and scores of Western diplomats had 'interesting' talks with him? Why did the West hope for a last-minute concession from him to avoid the bombing it threatened? What do we do with 'cruel dictators' who are ELECTED by citizens many of whom would certainly call him authoritarian or see his policies a catastrophic but who never saw him as a cruel dictator? And why does NATO repeat the mistake from Iraq - to bomb a country only to see its people unite completely behind their leader?

"In summary, NOT ONE OF NATO's PRESENT ARGUMENTS HOLDS WATER. They contradict facts, they contradict what Western leaders themselves told us yesterday. What we witness is a pitiful attempt at `perception management’ and media war against public opinion.

"We should get suspicious," concludes Jan Oberg, "when Western civilian and military top leaders within days seek to rewrite and falsify history, omit well-documented facts and central actors, change the sequence of events and forget what they stated and did only a couple of weeks ago. It's particularly disturbing if you see a systematic bias or tendency in those changes. And it bodes ill, indeed, when the majority of journalists ask only politically correct questions to State Department and NATO spin doctors and spokespersons at a time that could well turn out to be a defining moment of history."

After the Monica Lewinsky fiasco, what does it take to have people realize that Bill Clinton is a liar? If it suits his purpose, he is just going to lie, and he doesn't really care what the subject matter is or how many people get hurt by the lie. Our only hope at this point is that the US Congress will step into the leadership vacuum and get our country back on the Constitutional track (Goodness, we really are in trouble).

To the extent that we ought to ever have chosen sides in this war, we are on the wrong side. The KLA are terrorists. Congress didn't declare a war to provide the KLA with an airforce, but Clinton has. The best way to support the troops is to save them from a ground war they will never win.

April 20, 1999

On March 30th, six days after Clinton and Blair began bombing Yugoslavia it was questioned whether or not the basis of the war, which seemed to be "humanitarianism" would be won by Bill Clinton or Slobodan Milosevic. Clinton positioned America as the only superpower, with unquestioned technological superiority fighting to "save" the Albanians in Kosovo from a pip-squeak dictator who was preparing to commit "genocide" against the Albanians. While the flare-up in Yugoslavia has been going on now for about six years, the Serbs never seemed to be heard from. Christiane Amanpour NEVER positioned herself among the Serbs, telling their side of the story. Presumably, from the American media point of view, they HAD no side.

It seemed after two weeks with Christiane Amanpour on the nightly news telling how bad off the Albanian refugees were and how awful Milosevic is there was no contest for Humanitarian of the Year award over in the Balkans. It was Bill Clinton - or so Christiane would have us believe. Then we began to see pictures on Yugoslav TV, broadcast strangely enough by CNN, showing premature babies being rushed to a basement shelter after the building next door was demolished by a missile. It was on Yugoslav TV, not the much vaunted "free press" of America, which first broadcast pictures of three US soldiers captured in Kosovo territory, while the Clintagon was scrambling for cover refusing to admit their capture.

We saw, on Yugoslav TV, the downed F-117 Nighthawk fighter and banners held by Belgrade demonstrators saying, "We're sorry, NATO, we didn't know it was invisible." We saw first a few people, then hundreds and finally thousands of Serbs standing on the last remaining bridge over the Danube at Novi Sad holding lit candles, singing and praying nightly, risking their lives if NATO dropped a bomb on that bridge too. And, then, finally in the past week we saw pictures of a train going to Thessilonika with civilians bombed and a convoy of Albanian refugees bombed "by mistake" by pilots who mistook tractors for Army vehicles at a safe 15,000 feet.

We also were regaled with stories from the Albanian refugees who said it was not a NATO plane ("NATO has come to save us. It couldn't be NATO!") but was really a Yugoslavian Airforce plane killing the Albanians by dropping bombs. So, if the pilot with sophisticated equipment can't tell a farm tractor from an army tank or truck, how could an Albanian peasant farmer on the ground identify the markings of an airplane dropping bombs from 15,000 feet?

Those events, plus a British news team going into Northern Albania to film more tear-jerking stories about the plight of the Albanian refugees, helped to unearth the hard way the REAL story: The KLA "Freedom Fighters" are actually mere bandits operating out of a segment of Albania that the Albanian government cannot control. The journalists were held up at gun point and their equipment and vehicles stolen by the KLA "Freedom Fighters." This is not the recommended approach for terrorists to get good press.

The attitude change towards the KLA has been remarkable. All the sudden other news sources are beginning to mention some of the facts the alternative media have been reporting for more than a month. This, of course, is very upsetting to the propagandists and those who are determined to portray Bill Clinton as a "savior" of humankind - especially downtrodden minorities. What can they do to save their hides? Well, the next step for a terrorist is to step up the terrorism - since that is really all he knows how to do.

April 23, 1999

"On the evening of May 10, 1933, some four and a half months after Hitler became Chancellor, there occurred in Berlin a scene which had not been witnessed in the Western world since the late Middle Ages," wrote William Shirer, in his The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - A History of Nazi Germany.

"At about midnight a torchlight parade of thousands of students ended at a square on Unter den Linden opposite the University of Berlin. Torches were put on a huge pile of books that had been gathered there, and as the flames enveloped them more books were thrown on the fire until some twenty thousand had been consumed. Similar scenes took place in several other cities. The book burning had begun."

Why were the books burned? Because, the books chosen to be burned did not reflect the Nazi view of "German thought." One of the books in that first bonfire was the writings of Hugo Preuss who had drafted the Weimar Constitution.

Yesterday, NATO air forces destroyed the building of Radio Television Serbia around 2:10 am. Civilian casualties were confirmed. (A late report from Truth in Media said: "Horrible scenes shown on Belgrade's Studio B (independent) TV station. Injured and dead people are being pulled out of the rubble (at Aberdareva Street). It is estimated that there were at least 70 people inside the Serb TV building when it was struck. This was meant to KILL PEOPLE, not just disable Serb TV. They could have destroyed the transmitters to disrupt, diminish and degrade. They chose to destroy and murder. One of the missiles apparently hit the entrance of the building." - Bob Djurdjevic)

On April 8th, on the Larry King Live show, King asked Miodrag Ilic, a former news anchor for the Serb Broadcasting Corporation and a former talk show host who has worked on and off of the Serb network for over 20 years:

"Mr. Ilic, can you tell us your reaction to the warning that we have learned tonight from NATO: that unless Serb television stations allow Western broadcast during two to three hour periods everyday, they would be bombed? NATO says Serb stations are used as propaganda. Your comments?"

MIODRAG ILIC, SERB BROADCASTING CORPORATION: "What would you do, Larry, if you were me? We are professionals, and we perform our duty. You see this, moment, it is exactly 3:02 in the morning in Belgrade. And there are about between 800 and 900 people in this building. There are assistants, journalists, producers, members of the technical staff and so on. And we're performing our duty. We have no chance to do something else, you know?

"But if it happens, then it will be the deadly strike to the democracy, and I think it will be the beginning of the world slavery."

The number of civilian casualties at this point is unknown. They could be considerable, if the 800 to 900 people were in the building of Radio Television Serbia which was in the very center of Belgrade, surrounded by blocks of civilian residences and a high school. The building was burning and the whole of downtown Belgrade is in heavy smoke. Two days ago NATO took out the 24-story Usce building which had Kosava radio and The Pink and BKTVs transmitters on the top. The Kosava radio and TV and the Pink and BK TVs provided the most popular entertainment programming, especially for young people, Brent Sadler of CNN said in a report from Belgrade. Usce building was hit by four missiles and was located near residential buildings and the Belgrade Museum of Modern Art.

The remaining Serb news link to the outside world is Serb Internet, which is now the prime source of news from Yugoslavia. Serbia-info (at http://www.serbia-info.com/) reported shortly after the bombing of Radio Television Serbia, "This is the second air strike on media houses in Belgrade during [the] last two days. After the attempted murder of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic last night and the total destruction of the residential palace, NATO missiles destroyed a media house and attempted murder of freedom of speech." This refers to the bombing of Milosevic's house shortly after his meeting with Russian presidential envoy on Yugoslavia Viktor Chernomyrdin. Yugoslav officials said three laser-guided bombs blasted Milosevic's bedroom, living room and dining room. "NATO committed a criminal act without precedence - an assassination attempt against the president of a sovereign state," said Goran Matic, a government minister. Kenneth Bacon, Clintagon spokesman, when asked if the bombing of Milosevic's home was an assassination attempt, blandly replied that assassination of foreign leaders was "not US policy."

Of course, the reporter didn't ask what US policy is. He asked if the purpose of bombing Milosevic's home was to kill him. Bacon didn't answer that question. However, it is doubtful that the decision was made to bomb Milosevic's bedroom and living room to improve his health.

Clinton repeatedly assures the Serb people that they are not the collective target of his war. Yet firing a bomb into the Yugoslav White House is not an assassination attempt? If missiles started dropping on the White House, CNN headquarters in Atlanta, or on automobile manufacturing plants in Michigan or oil refineries in Texas, would that convince Americans that whoever was doing the bombing really was merely attempting to "degrade" America's military? I think most Americans would think that a bomb dropped on the White House not only would be an attempt to assassinate Bill Clinton, but would be an attack on all America and what it stands for.

And while all that was happening, Secretary of State Aunt Madeleine was telling the House International Affairs Committee that the Clinton Tyranny is against Congress passing a formal declaration of war, saying they don't view the U.S. as being "at war" with Yugoslavia!

We are dropping bombs on everything that moves in Yugoslavia, including their White House, and she doesn't consider that "war?" I think she's been around Bill Clinton too long.

She also said NATO intends to launch a concerted effort to "pierce the veil of propaganda with which Milosevic has tried to shroud the people of former Yugoslavia." That, apparently, was a veiled reference to bombing Yugoslavia's main TV transmitters.

It ought to be obvious to almost anyone who has been watching the events of the past few weeks that the target audience that prompted NATO's modern form of book-burning is not the Serbs but the American people. By showing Serb TV stories on US Television, Americans were able to determine for themselves that they were being lied to by the White House and the Clintagon. It was on Serb TV, not American TV, that Americans first saw proof of the capture of the three American soldiers, the downing of the F-117 Nighthawk fighter, the bombed Albanian refugee convoy, civilian apartment houses, schools, monasteries and the evacuation of mothers and babies from a hospital next door to a government building hit with missiles. NATO was clearly losing the propaganda war - not for the hearts and minds of the Serbs but for the hearts and minds of the AMERICANS. Americans were seeing Serb TV show pictures to prove their stories - usually after CNN and network news broadcasts had quoted US government sources calling them "false." And as the Clintonoids know best of all, a picture is worth a thousand words.

So now CNN's Brent Sadler cannot show those troubling images to the American people. That leaves the Internet, which is still functioning, and there's a growing number of Serbs contacting Western journalists with poignant stories of the destruction of their nation. And, some of those e-mails include pictures.

April 24, 1999

Seventy civilians are dead or missing in the bombing of Serb television studios. Bill Clinton says they were "legitimate targets" because they told lies. So journalists, producers, cameramen, copy writers, secretaries and janitors died because Bill Clinton, impeached by the House, convicted by half the Senate, and labeled by more than 95% of Congress as a man whose "misstatements" were worthy either of removal from office or censure, considered them dishonest? Does he not realize that he, by his own criteria, is making himself a prime target for assassination?

Remember the Democrats’ censure motion that said:

"It is the Sense of the Congress that - On January 20, 1993, William Jefferson Clinton took the oath, prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, faithfully to execute the Office of President; implicit in that oath is the obligation that the President set an example of high moral standards and conduct himself in a manner that fosters respect for the truth; and William Jefferson Clinton has egregiously failed in this obligation, and through his actions has violated the trust of the American people, lessened their esteem for the office of President and dishonored the office which they have entrusted to him,

Be it resolved That:

1. The President made false statements concerning his reprehensible conduct with a subordinate;

2. The President wrongly took steps to delay discovery of the truth;

3. No person is above the law, and the President remains subject to criminal and civil penalties, for this conduct;

4. William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States, by his conduct has brought upon himself and fully deserves the censure and condemnation of the American people and the Congress; and by his signature on this Joint Resolution, the President acknowledges this censure."

Clinton made false statements - the entire Congress agreed. They just couldn't agree whether or not it was all that serious. The Democrats and a sprinkling of Republicans thought that removal from office was "too harsh" a punishment.

Then, scarcely a month later, Clinton decides to bomb Yugoslavia - for "compassionate" reasons, of course. But, then Serb TV began showing pictures that were picked up by Western broadcasters, including his dear friends over at CNN, and it was making him look bad. So, last week he bombed Serb TV.

Of course, that was not the reason given for the atrocity. The reason Clinton gave was that Serb TV was not telling the "truth." If allowed to vote on the subject, how many members of Congress would agree that a journalist lying is sufficient reason to kill them? If Republicans were ever to sign onto that idea, there wouldn’t be a press hack in the country who wouldn’t be six feet under.

Exactly what in the coverage we saw on Serb TV, courtesy of CNN, was the "lie" sufficient to merit their execution? Was it calling NATO aggressors and barbarians? How is that not true? Was there something about the pictures we were seeing of the bombs exploding and incinerating buildings? Was it pictures of the damage done to hospitals, private homes, and schools? Exactly what was the "lie" sufficient to justify the killing of the journalists?

Branislav Andjelic, the Webmaster for http://www.beograd.com where the world can still have access to the pictures that Bill Clinton doesn't want us to see,:

"The man famed for saying ‘I did not have sex with that woman’ on national television said that Serb Television studios were a legitimate target because they told lies. And so journalists, producers, cameramen, copy writers, secretaries and janitors died. Some 70 civilians dead or missing. In prime time. Live. If you have the stomach for it go to http://www.beograd.com/nato/rts/rts2.htm to see what is left of them.

"The bombing of the studio was a deliberate act of depraved indifference for human life, a murder. If NATO wanted to silence Serb Television broadcasts to the Serb people, they could have targeted transmitters and repeaters, all of which are unmanned and located at remote locations.

"But NATO's goal was not to stop the propaganda directed at the Serb people. Serb people watch unrestricted Western satellite TV feeds: CNN, Sky, BBC. They do get both sides of the story. NATO's goal was something much more sinister. All the pictures of war destruction you have seen on CNN and the networks came to you via the Serb TV studio in Belgrade. If it is destroyed and its cameramen and reporters are killed, you won't be able to see the demolished passenger trains, refugee convoys and office buildings that NATO is targeting. Once this uplink is dead, you will have to believe Jamie Shea that NATO is waging this war only against Milosevic and targeting only the military. There won't be any pictures to contradict him.

"And what of the American press? Silence there. Can it be that those banner waving proponents of free speech, those supporters of truth in journalism are now silent? Does it not strike terror in their very souls that the President of the United States has declared their profession a legitimate target?

"NATO has already lost this war. It is using ever larger bombs, an ever expanding list of targets, ever shifting moral boundaries. Will eventually all Serbs become legitimate targets?

"I wonder if in 1999 there is a Joseph Welch to get up and decry: ‘Have you no sense of decency, at long last?’ - Branislav Andjelic webmaster@beograd.com

Don’t hold your breath, Bran, don’t hold your breath..

Still, Andjelic asks a legitimate question. Oughtn’t there be real journalists left in network television or our large national newspapers? How can the world of journalism simple say nothing as their profession is attacked?

Actually, it's worse than that. The CNN part of the world of journalism actually had a propaganda piece which aired Sunday on why Serb television was an appropriate target for Clinton's bombs. This is the same "network" that declared itself neutral during the Gulf War and sent the infamous Peter Arnett to Baghdad to act as Saddam Hussein’s Western mouthpiece, all for the sake of "objectivity."

Clinton and CNN's arguments were not universally approved, however. On Friday, Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini denounced the bombing of the Serb television station as a "terrible event." He insisted that there should be greater consultations over future air strikes (Don’t hold YOUR breath either, Mr. Foreign Minister). The decision to require approval from heads of government for certain particularly deadly attacks in Belgrade appeared designed to meet his concerns and similar doubts voiced by other NATO leaders.

So, while the propaganda coming out of the NATO "celebration" was that the attacks on Yugoslavia had the unanimous consent of all 19 NATO members, that actually was a lie. French President Jacques Chirac expressed concern that the oil blockade Clinton is demanding would be "an act of war and could lead to a clash with Russia, which has vowed to continue supplying oil to Yugoslavia." President Chirac is probably quite right about that. Or will the Clintonoids brand him a "liar" as well and start pouring Tomahawks into the Elysee Palace?

In Cairo, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov pledged that his country would continue to supply oil to Yugoslavia despite NATO's decision to implement an oil embargo on Belgrade. "We will not do anything that could add to the suffering of the people of Yugoslavia and under our international commitments we will continue to provide oil," Ivanov told reporters late Friday. Will this anger Clinton enough to order the dusting of Moscow?

In their summit communique, Sick Willie and his European vassals said "we recognize the primary responsibility of the United Nations Security Council for the maintenance of international peace and security." That is the same Security Council Clinton ignored in launching his unprovoked war, and the same Security Council to which he used to pledge undying fealty.

Chirac hailed this language as "a triumph for French diplomacy." But U.S. officials said it is virtually meaningless, because it does not require the alliance to obtain explicit U.N. Security Council for NATO military actions beyond its territory. What Chirac said in a press conference was that the actions of NATO in assuming the "right" to bomb a sovereign nation, was contrary to international law. If NATO has that right, apparently so do other nations. It would appear that NATO is saying that it, and not the United Nations, has the "primary responsibility" to maintain "international peace and security."

In case you are confused, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair are saying that bombing Yugoslavia is "maintaining international peace and security."

Haven't we all heard this somewhere before? Let's see -

"The Hate rose to its climax. The voice of Goldstein had become an actual sheep's bleat and for an instant the face (on the screen) changed into that of a sheep. Then the sheep-face melted into the figure of a Eurasian soldier who seemed to be advancing, huge and terrible, his submachine gun roaring and seeming to spring out of the surface of the screen, so that some of the people in the front row actually flinched backwards in their seats. But in the same moment, drawing a deep sigh of relief from everybody, the hostile figure melted into the face of Big Brother, black-haired, black-mustachio'd, full of power and mysterious calm, and so vast that it almost filled up the screen. Nobody heard what Big Brother was saying. It was merely a few words of encouragement, the sort of words that are uttered in the din of battle, not indistinguishable individually but restoring confidence by the fact of being spoken. Then the face of Big Brother faded away again, and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out in bold capitals:

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"

George Orwell’s timing appears to have been off by about 15 years, but that's not bad, considering he wrote those words almost exactly 50 years ago - in 1949. They were written in "1984" as he tried to describe a world in which eternal warfare is waged to keep the stock market rising and in which "The Party" keeps itself in power by thought control.

Who’d have thought he was a prophet?

April 27, 1999

"The United States Government conceals its aggressions under the cloak of words like World Peace and Human Rights," Charles Buffalo observes. How many times in world history have you ever heard of a tyrant who DIDN'T cloak his actions with good sounding words? How many tyrants have said, "Look, folks, I'm an evil tyrant. Do what I tell you to do or I'll kill you!" It just doesn't happen.

When the bombing of Yugoslavia began, few Americans even knew where Kosovo was located, according to Bill Clinton. However, in this information age, some Americans today are trying to find out about Kosovo. My own curiosity about the situation was piqued largely by the strange one-sidedness of the reporting we have seen ever since the break-up of Yugoslavia began in 1991-92. As I watched the pictures on CNN of KLA troops, outfitted in what appeared to be new or nearly new uniforms and carrying sophisticated weapons, I wondered, "Who is financing this group? Albanians are the poorest nation with the lowest GNP in Europe. How could they afford the weapons, the uniforms?

So, I began to search for answers. I was surprised at the answers I found. The KLA is an established and well-known terrorist organization, listed as one of the top 100 terrorist organizations in the world by the Federation of American Scientists. Newspaper clippings from the Czech Republic, Italy, and Germany report arrests of KLA leaders in those countries for the sale of heroin. Police reports - not political reports - state that 90% of the heroin in Scandinavia is supplied by the KLA. Why did Aunt Madeline shove aside the established leader of the Kosovar Albanians, Dr. Rugova, and accept the KLA chieftain Thaci as the "negotiator" for all Albanians at Rambouillet? Why was Thaci invited to Washington following his agreement to sign a document written by the Americans? Why was Thaci not threatened with air attack if he refused to sign, as Milosevic was? Why is the American Air Force being used as the air defense wing of a group which has been labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department as recently as a year ago? And, why is there serious consideration now being given to use of a newly recruited and trained KLA as the "ground forces" required for the Apache helicopters sent to Albania for attacks on the sovereign nation of Yugoslavia?

My search led me to far more questions than answers. However, I just don't believe that Bill Clinton, having lied consistently throughout his misbegotten, pilfered tenure in office, is now suddenly telling us the truth about Yugoslavia and our actions there. Six and a half years ago we somehow concluded as a nation, through the people we elected to the Congress of the United States of America, that lying under oath does not matter; that sexual attacks upon a variety of women over the years by the President of the United States is simply none of our business; that an accusation of forcible rape is not even a matter of sufficient concern for the voters to demand an investigation; and that opening the way for a sworn enemy, Red China, to have access to nuclear secrets, super computers and missile technology, is to be quickly forgotten and brushed aside when that same president unconstitutionally declares war on the sovereign nation of Yugoslavia, via executive order, is acceptable – all when done by a liberal Democrat.

Has it occurred to anyone out there that this litany of infamy is incalculably more egregiously evil than anything of which any of Clinton’s GOP predecessors was ever accused by the same Democrat scoundrels who persist in fanatically defending and lionizing Mr. Bill? Have we collectively lost our minds? Do we really just no longer care about the kind of world we are leaving our children?

Apparently not. If we did, we would never have elected this lying, thieving, murderous piece of trash. If we did, we’d have risen up and demanded that the Senate remove him from office and drag him away to prison in chains. If we did, we would be demanding an end to his rape of Yugoslavia in defense of a pack of drug dealers.

These chickens will come home to roost. Don’t be surprised if it’s sooner rather than later.

April 28, 1999

Today there is supposed to be a vote in the House of Representatives on Reprentative Tom Campbell's (R-CA) House Joint Resolution 44 Declaring War on Yugoslavia. Another bill, House Conference Resolution 82, also introduced by Congressman Campbell, would "Direct the president, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from their positions in connection with the present operations against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia."

Why would the same man introduce two conflicting resolutions? Tom Campbell is a Stanford University professor. Subjects he has taught include international commercial law and economics, international jurisdiction, public international law, separation of powers in constitutional law, administrative law, advanced antitrust, microeconomics, corporations. One might say he knows his stuff where law is concerned and thinks it a good idea for Congress to encourage the President of the United States to abide by the law of the land for a change.

Campbell pointed out when he introduced his resolutions two weeks ago, "The first (resolution) is to stop the bombing and help the (Albanian) refugees where they are. The Albanian population of Kosovo is now largely outside of Kosovo. Refugee camps populate Macedonia and Albania, and their need is great. The NATO countries can assist with aid. In time, the camps will disband as Albanians from Kosovo merge with Albanians whose forebears never left Albania. Private remittances from Albanians in the US, Canada, and Europe will help for many. The cost to the West for, say, 800,000 refugees at $10,000 a year per person would be 8 billion. That equals a little over 1% of the individual federal income taxes Americans pay. Contributions might come from wealthy Islamic states, and from traditionally generous European nations, to match our own. So figure an increase of one-half of 1% of the income tax each of us pays personally, for a long time.

"As for Milosevic? Under this option, he would survive. But he would have to fear the precedent of former Chilean dictator Pinochet. With the state of international law now enabling countries to arrest and try other nations' dictators for the crimes committed within their own countries, Milosevic will not be able to travel outside of Yugoslavia. Wherever he goes, he would worry that his host country might find it worthwhile to arrest him, and turn him over to the Hague International War Crimes Tribunal. In his own country, his command has solidified. Eventually, however, politics could change and a new regime could turn him over for trial or try him themselves. If we repeal the Executive Order against targeting foreign heads-of-state [which Clinton has already violated, so what would be the point?], we could make Milosevic rest very uneasy indeed.

"Here's the second option. Put in NATO ground troops. They will fight their way through Yugoslavia from the North, or from the East, or up through Kosovo. They will hold the land by killing [and being killed by] Serb soldiers in ground combat. They will stay there for as long as there is a Serb army capable of threatening to retake Kosovo [i.e. forever]. And they would then preside over a hugely expensive repatriation effort--to help the Kosovar Albanians to return, then to make life habitable for them when they did so [i.e. "cleanse" all Serbs out of Yugoslavia]. Figure the cost is about the same as making a life for them in the refugee camps under option one, since there appears to be little left in the Albanian villages of Kosovo upon which to build."

The second option, of course, may very well lead to World War III or, at a minimum, to a 50 year commitment of US troops into Kosovo fighting a guerrilla war with the Serbs.

Representative Joel Hefley, (R-CO) said last week in a 1 minute speech: "We are beginning to see evidence of military shortages everywhere. At the same time, our military is dangerously over-stretched. We have fewer and fewer resources and more and more missions, many of them of dubious value and wisdom.

"Less than a month into a small operation, [Clinton] is already calling up 30,000 reservists. The U.S.S. Enterprise went to sea short of 400 personnel. Today there are 265,000 American troops in 135 countries. Our troops are not being taken care of properly.

"It is tragic [infuriating, actually] that it has taken the war in Kosovo to expose the total mismatch between resources and missions in the U.S. military: world policeman, global social worker, all the while cutting back dramatically and drastically on weapons procurement, training, and personnel.

"This [Tyranny] has not given our troops the priority they deserve. For 7 straight years, [Sick Willie] has sent Congress a defense budget that falls short of its needs. If Congress had not added to this budget each year since 1995, we would be in even worse shape.

"Kosovo illustrates the problem, but we in Congress have the power [but not the courage] to correct it."

There has been almost no media coverage on Campbell's resolutions. Whatever the public's opinion is, it is time that the people force their elected Representatives take a stand. Are we in support of bombing civilians, water lines, bridges, wrecking the economy of a small nation the size of Kentucky who used to be friends and admirers of America? Can we expect Bill Clinton to continue bombing raids on one or another countries until his term expires? After all the media hype during the impeachment debates about the need to "get back" to the nation's agenda of "saving Social Security," are we really totally prepared to spend the Social Security trust fund to bomb Yugoslavia back to the stone age, just so Bill Clinton can evade questions like: "Did you really rape Juanita Broddrick?" or "The New York Times lead story this morning says top secret data was made available to Red China by your Tyranny that compromises virtually every nuclear weapon in the United States arsenal. Would you like to explain why you are so concerned about disarming ordinary American citizens while you are so intent on arming our enemies with nuclear warheads?"

We, the people, have to ask him these questions, because the "free" press never will.

April 29, 1999

In war, we are told, one needs to know one's enemy. That is true. In the current war in Yugoslavia, it is equally important that we also know our friends. Who are the Albanians we are now being encouraged send ground troops to defend in Kosovo? We are now being encouraged to destroy the country and culture of Yugoslavia because we have been TOLD that "Serbs are raping Albanian women." Why should this be a great concern to an American population which insisted its president, a proven serial perjurer and rapist, among other things, should remain in office without punishment?

A 1997 New York Times article warned us about Albanian efforts to ethnically cleanse Kosovo of Serbs. However, it we take the position that destroying ancient architectural masterpieces, apartment buildings and passenger trains with million dollar missiles is morally required of us because of alleged atrocities of Serbs against Albanian women, perhaps we need to take a look at the real atrocities of Albanians against Serb women.

Twelve years ago David Binder, on November 1, 1987, writing from Belgrade, wrote about the ethnic strife that was beginning to engulf Kosovo because of policies of the ALBANIANS in Kosovo.

Albania, under the leadership of Enver Hoxha, consistently aligned itself with the most repressive advocates of Communism. Hoxha was a founder (1941) of the Albanian Communist party (Albanian Labor party from 1948), General secretary of the party from 1943, and premier (1946-54) of Albania after its proclamation as a republic. Hoxha was also minister of foreign affairs (1946-53) and commander in chief of the army (1944-54). He maintained close ties with the Soviet Union until its rift with Communist China in 1961; he then joined Beijing in its ideological struggle against Moscow and was branded as a "Stalinist" by Soviet and other Communist leaders. He stopped Albanian participation in the Warsaw Pact and the Council for Economic Assistance (Comecon). In 1977, Hoxha broke ties with China, protesting that country's liberalization and the U.S.-China rapprochement. Under Hoxha's rule, Albania remained one of the least economically developed and one of the most isolated countries in Europe. Hoxha died in office in 1985, and was succeeded by Ramiz Alia.

Binder warned in a Special to the New York Times, from Belgrade, November 1, 1987, Sunday, Late City Final Edition, Section 1; Part 1, Page 14:

"In Yugoslavia, Rising Ethnic Strife Brings Fears of Worse Civil Conflict" that "Portions of southern Yugoslavia have reached such a state of ethnic friction that Yugoslavs have begun to talk of the horrifying possibility of ''civil war'' in a land that lost one-tenth of its population, or 1.7 million people, in World War II.

"The current hostilities pit separatist-minded ethnic Albanians against the various Slavic populations of Yugoslavia and occur at all levels of society, from the highest officials to the humblest peasants. A young Army conscript of ethnic Albanian origin shot up his barracks, killing four sleeping Slavic bunkmates and wounding six others. The army says it has uncovered hundreds of subversive ethnic Albanian cells in its ranks. Some arsenals have been raided."

In the article Binder listed the following factors which he believed would lead to the civil war now under way between the Albanian communists and the Serbs:

Vicious Insults – "Ethnic Albanians in the government have manipulated public funds and regulations to take over land belonging to Serbs. And politicians have exchanged vicious insults. Slavic Orthodox churches have been attacked, and flags have been torn down. Wells have been poisoned and crops burned. Slavic boys have been knifed, and some young ethnic Albanians have been told by their elders to rape Serb girls. Ethnic Albanians comprise the fastest growing nationality in Yugoslavia and are expected soon to become its third largest, after the Serbs and Croats."

Radicals' Goals -- "The goal of the radical nationalists among them, one said in an interview, is an ''ethnic Albania that includes western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, part of southern Serbia, Kosovo and Albania itself.'' That includes large chunks of the republics that make up the southern half of Yugoslavia. Other ethnic Albanian separatists admit to a vision of a greater Albania governed from Pristina in southern Yugoslavia rather than Tirana, the capital of neighboring Albania.

"There is no evidence that the hard-line communist Government in Tirana is giving them material assistance. The principal battleground is the region called Kosovo, a high plateau ringed by mountains that is somewhat smaller than New Jersey. Ethnic Albanians there make up 85% of the population of 1.7 million. The rest are Serbs and Montenegrins.

Worst Strife in Years -- "As Slavs flee the protracted violence, Kosovo is becoming what ethnic Albanian nationalists have been demanding for years, and especially strongly since the bloody rioting by ethnic Albanians in Pristina in 1981 - an ‘ethnically pure’ Albanian region, a 'Republic of Kosovo' in all but name. The violence, a journalist in Kosovo said, is escalating to ''the worst in the last seven years.'' Many Yugoslavs blame the troubles on the ethnic Albanians, but the matter is more complex in a country with as many nationalities and religions as Yugoslavia's and involves economic development, law, politics, families and flags.

"As recently as 20 years ago, the Slavic majority treated ethnic Albanians as inferiors to be employed as hewers of wood and carriers of heating coal. The ethnic Albanians, who now number 2 million, were officially deemed a minority, not a constituent nationality, as they are today.

"Were the ethnic tensions restricted to Kosovo, Yugoslavia's problems with its Albanian nationals might be more manageable. But some Yugoslavs and some ethnic Albanians believe the struggle has spread far beyond Kosovo. Macedonia, a republic to the south with a population of 1.8 million, has a restive ethnic Albanian minority of 350,000.

''We've already lost western Macedonia to the Albanians,'' said a member of the Yugoslav party presidium, explaining that the ethnic minority had driven the Slavic Macedonians out of the region.

Attacks on Slavs -- "Last summer, the authorities in Kosovo said they documented 40 ethnic Albanian attacks on Slavs in two months. In the last two years, 320 ethnic Albanians have been sentenced for political crimes, nearly half of them characterized as severe. In one incident, Fadil Hoxha, once the leading politician of ethnic Albanian origin in Yugoslavia, joked at an official dinner in Prizren last year that Serb women should be used to satisfy potential ethnic Albanian rapists. After his quip was reported this October, Serb women in Kosovo protested, and Mr. Hoxha was dismissed from the Communist Party.

"As a precaution, the central authorities dispatched 380 riot police officers to the Kosovo region for the first time in four years. Officials in Belgrade view the ethnic Albanian challenge as imperiling the foundations of the multinational experiment called federal Yugoslavia, which consists of six republics and two provinces.

'Lebanonizing' of Yugoslavia – "High-ranking officials have spoken of the 'Lebanonizing' of their country and have compared its troubles to the strife in Northern Ireland. Borislav Jovic, a member of the Serb party's presidency, spoke in an interview of the prospect of 'two Albanias, one north and one south, like divided Germany or Korea,' and of 'practically the breakup of Yugoslavia.' He added: 'Time is working against us.'

"The federal Secretary for National Defense, Fleet Admiral Branko Mamula, told the army's party organization in September of efforts by ethnic Albanians to subvert the armed forces. ''Between 1981 and 1987 a total of 216 illegal organizations with 1,435 members of Albanian nationality were discovered in the Yugoslav People's Army,'' he said. Admiral Mamula said ethnic Albanian subversives had been preparing for 'killing officers and soldiers, poisoning food and water, sabotage, breaking into weapons arsenals and stealing arms and ammunition, desertion and causing flagrant nationalist incidents in army units.'

Concerns Over Military – "Coming three weeks after the ethnic Albanian draftee, Aziz Kelmendi, had slaughtered his Slavic comrades in the barracks at Paracin, the speech struck fear in thousands of families whose sons were about to start their mandatory year of military service. Because the Albanians have had a relatively high birth rate, one-quarter of the army's 200,000 conscripts this year are ethnic Albanians. Admiral Mamula suggested that 3,792 were potential human time bombs. He said the army had ''not been provided with details relevant for assessing their behavior.'' But a number of Belgrade politicians said they doubted the Yugoslav armed forces would be used to intervene in Kosovo as they were to quell violent rioting in 1981 in Pristina. They reason that the army leadership is extremely reluctant to become involved in what is, in the first place, a political issue.

"Ethnic Albanians already control almost every phase of life in the autonomous province of Kosovo, including the police, judiciary, civil service, schools and factories. Non-Albanian visitors almost immediately feel the independence - and suspicion - of the ethnic Albanian authorities.

Region's Slavs Lack Strength – "While 200,000 Serbs and Montenegrins still live in the province, they are scattered and lack cohesion. In the last seven years, 20,000 of them have fled the province, often leaving behind farmsteads and houses, for the safety of the Slavic north.

"Until September, the majority of the Serb Communist Party leadership pursued a policy of seeking compromise with the Kosovo party hierarchy under its ethnic Albanian leader, Azem Vlasi. But during a 30-hour session of the Serb central committee in late September, the Serb party secretary, Slobodan Milosevic, deposed Dragisa Pavlovic, as head of Belgrade's party organization, the country's largest. Mr. Milosevic accused Mr. Pavlovic of being an appeaser who was soft on Albanian radicals. Mr. Milosevic had courted the Serb backlash vote with speeches in Kosovo itself calling for 'the policy of the hard hand.' ''’We will go up against anti-Socialist forces, even if they call us Stalinists,'' Mr. Milosevic declared recently.

"That a Yugoslav politician would invite someone to call him a Stalinist even four decades after Tito's epochal break with Stalin, is a measure of the state into which Serb politics have fallen. For the moment, Mr. Milosevic and his supporters appear to be staking their careers on a strategy of confrontation with the Kosovo ethnic Albanians. Other Yugoslav politicians have expressed alarm. 'There is no doubt Kosovo is a problem of the whole country, a powder keg on which we all sit,' said Milan Kucan, head of the Slovenian Communist Party. Remzi Koljgeci, of the Kosovo party leadership, said in an interview in Pristina that 'relations are cold' between the ethnic Albanians and Serbs of the province, that there were too many 'people

without hope.'

"But many of those interviewed agreed it was also a rare opportunity for Yugoslavia to take radical political and economic steps, as Tito did when he broke with the Soviet bloc in 1948. Efforts are under way to strengthen central authority through amendments to the constitution. The League of Communists is planning an extraordinary party congress before March to address the country's grave problems. The hope is that something will be done then to exert the rule of law in Kosovo while drawing ethnic Albanians back into Yugoslavia's mainstream."

Somehow, in all the propaganda designed to whip up the emotions of the American people, especially women, the real identity of Bill Clinton's newest friends, the Albanians, has been wrapped up in words meant to whitewash their real identity. No longer are they identified as the most Stalinist of all European communists, or terrorists, or ethnic cleansers (95% of the population of Albania are Albanian - no minorities are allowed). Today we hear about the "Kosovo Liberation Army" and the "raping of Albanian women" and the "ethnic cleansing" of Kosovo by the mean, cruel Serbs in Belgrade.

We are being manipulated by Bill Clinton, again, and a people who once were one of our staunch friends and admirers, the Serbs, whose courage and love of freedom and willingness to die held up to 700,000 German troops at bay until America came into the war, are being massacred by American bombs.

May God show us the mercy and wisdom we have lacked.

May 3, 1999

It’s truly amazing what can happen in a single weekend::

1. Jesse Jackson, who had been discouraged from going to Belgrade, had managed to obtain the release of the American prisoners of war captured a month ago - primarily through prayer.

2. Bill Clinton responded to Jesse Jackson's success in bringing the three American soldiers home was to increase, rather than decrease, the bombing.

3. The Serb Chemical Society Warned that the bombing of Serb Chemical factories was a "major ecological catastrophe" which threatens Europe.

4. The scientists at the Yugoslav nuclear reactors believe NATO plans to bomb the nuclear plants - which will cause a nuclear disaster, as well as a chemical disaster.

5. A "Stop the Bombing" March on Washington was a success in Washington, DC.

As an analyst, what does one make of such news? Well, to start with, even I have underestimated the depravity of Bill Clinton. Proving that stopped clocks really are right twice a day, Jesse Jackson actually had a good idea, suggesting that Slobodan Milosevic release the POWs for Serb Orthodox Easter as a goodwill gesture. Surely Bill Clinton, who still, for reasons lost in his meglamania, insists he’s a "Christian," would find it very difficult to continue the slaughter.

Instead, he responded to the gesture by Milosevic by bombing a busload of civilians, blowing most of them up into such small pieces they cannot be identified, and trying to wipe out all electrical power in Yugoslavia.

On top of that the Serb Chemical Society reported that "The destruction of chemical industry plants resulted in the release of hundreds of thousands of tons of highly toxic, teratogenic and carcinogenic chemicals, which are used to produce fertilizers, plastics and petroleum derivatives. These include chlorine, mercury, hydrocarbons, ammonia, nitrogen and sulphur oxides, phosphorous compounds and hydrogen halides, released in the atmosphere and the rivers following the bombing. The destruction of a fertilizer-producing plant in the town of Pancevo caused a release of vast amounts of sulphur and nitrogen oxides: acid rain, which began to fall soon afterwards, covered broad agricultural area on both sides of the Danube. The most recent destruction of the electric power relay stations led to the release of the highly toxic chemical piralen."

"Data of the chemical pollution in the surrounding of numerous targeted chemical plants in Serbia are being collected, and some of the hazardous compounds have already been measured. For example, after the destruction of a petrochemical plant in the town of Pancevo, a 7000-fold increase of concentration of toxic vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) in the atmosphere was recorded in the neighboring urban area, and a large number of people had to be treated for poisoning.

"We appeal for the cessation of targeting the sources which release toxic, teratogenic and carcinogenic chemicals, to prevent the further spread of this already huge ecological catastrophe in Europe."

I am quite sure that, if the Serbs had taken the chemicals listed and dropped bombs containing those chemicals on a group of Albanians in Kosovo that the Clinton White House would be screaming for a war crimes tribunal to instantly declare the matter a war crime.

If, as the Serbs believe, the next target is the nuclear facility, the bombs could be the equivalent of using tactical nuclear weapons. In other words, bombing the nuclear reactors could create a nuclear disaster for all of Europe.

Is this really OK with the other NATO members who will be the ones getting the radiation from such an event? This, bear in mind, is being done at the behest of America's "environmentalist president." This is protecting the environment?

So far, other than destroying Yugoslavia, NONE of Clinton's supposed "goals" in attacking Yugoslavia have succeeded. More than a month ago I suggested that this would be a humanitarian-e-mail war which Clinton, after six days, already seemed to be losing. Now, at the end of 39 days, as Milosevic releases the three POWs who were obviously in good health, it is obvious to more and more Americans, from Jesse Jackson to Trent Lott that America is losing this war.

Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, in what has to be the public relations "bomb" of the year, said that Yugoslavia's release yesterday of three U.S. prisoners of war would not prompt a lull in NATO bombing in the Balkans. "We are not only not going to stop the bombing, we're going to intensify the bombing," Cohen said. Oh, and have a nice day.

This ushers in the day when Herr Clintler meets with Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin. Chernomydrdin is determined to stop the insane war on Yugoslavia. As if to illustrate to excess the strange bedfellows metaphor, top Republican congressional leaders joined with Jesse Jackson in demanding Clinton to take advantage of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's recent conciliatory tactics to open negotiations with Yugoslavia. "Jackson, who engineered the release of the U.S. servicemen during a visit to Belgrade over the weekend, is carrying a letter from Milosevic to Clinton that lays out the Yugoslav president's position and seeks a meeting with Clinton. Cohen said such a meeting is 'highly unlikely,'" the Washington Post reported. Not surprising, since for Mr. Bill Milosevic’s views have always been irrelevant no matter what they were.

"While welcoming the release of Specialist Steven M. Gonzales, Sgt. Andrew Ramirez and Staff Sgt. Christopher J. Stone, Tyranny officials said they are skeptical of Milosevic. 'This gesture, if one can call it goodwill on his part, cannot obliterate or overcome the stench of evil and death that has been inflicted in those killing fields of Kosovo,' Cohen said on NBC's 'Meet the Press.'"

The only problem with Cohen's statement is that increasingly the pictures from Serb TV, that pesky group which NATO keeps bombing but which refuses to die properly, show the evil and death that has been inflicted by NATO bombs and missiles. There is something very poignant about watching hospitals trying to keep premature infants alive while the electricity to their incubators is being blown up by American bombers.

Also on NBC's "Meet the Press" Jesse Jackson said that Milosevic's release of the prisoners and his letter to Clinton indicate he is "ready to negotiate now. . . . We should not miss this moment of opportunity. . . . To miss this moment and respond to it with more bombs is to lose the moral offensive." So, Clinton does the exact opposite, dramatically increasing the attacks.

Several prominent Republicans on the opposite end of the ideological spectrum from Jackson also urged the hillbilly fascist to respond to Milosevic. On CNN's Late Edition, Senate Majority Waster Trent Lott (R-MS), gleeful at the irony, invoked the '60s slogan "Give peace a chance." There seems to be some momentum," Lott said. "There seems to be an opportunity. We should seize this moment."

House Majority Wimp Tom DeLay (R-TX), an outspoken critic of the Tyranny who voted against supporting the air strikes last week, also endorsed the idea of seeking a quick resolution of the dispute. DeLay said on "Fox News Sunday," "[Clinton] ought to open up negotiations and come to some sort of diplomatic end," adding that the release of the three soldiers to Jackson gives lawmakers reason to hope that outside parties can broker an agreement between Milosevic and NATO. "I think it is an opportunity, as many people are pointing out, to come to the table and bring Milosevic to the table, bring all parties in that can be helpful," DeLay said.

Chernomyrdin, who met with Yeltsin and other top Russian foreign policy officials yesterday, said Russia was outlining steps toward a political solution. Interfax news agency reported that Chernomyrdin may also meet with Earth President Kofi Annan after seeing Clinton. Itar-Tass news agency said Chernomyrdin may also visit London and Paris in the week ahead. "Russia's role is mediatory and we have been implementing it and will continue to do so and will do everything, working with both sides," Chernomyrdin said, adding that the air campaign must stop.

A 10-member congressional delegation to Vienna, meeting with Russian legislators, announced yesterday they had signed an agreement on Kosovo calling for "a parallel solution to three tasks, without regard to sequence," including an end to NATO's bombing, the withdrawal of Serb troops from Kosovo and the cessation of military activity by the Kosovo Liberation Army. The agreement, which they will offer in the form of a joint resolution to both legislatures this week, also advocates emergency measures such as the release of all POWs, repatriation of all refugees and the creation of a peacekeeping force under the auspices of the United Nations.

Though the delegation's leader, Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), told Reuters the pact amounted to a "historic breakthrough" and was sure to be accepted by Milosevic, U.S. officials said they were "skeptical" the pact could serve as a vehicle for a settlement.

The fact of the matter is that Clinton doesn't want to stop the bombing. There is something else going on here that I'm not sure has surfaced yet. Perhaps it is just Clinton's determination to "leave a legacy" which, he has said, needs a war to be remembered. And, this war probably will do the trick for him. Only, he is going to be remembered by the world with approximately the same enthusiastic fondness as Adolf Hitler.

May 4, 1999

Yesterday the Washington Times reported: "The Kosovo Liberation Army, which the Clinton [Tyranny] has embraced and some [manifestly ignorant] members of Congress want to arm as part of the NATO bombing campaign, is a terrorist organization that has financed much of its war effort with profits from the sale of heroin."

Then Jesse Jackson called NATO "arrogant" for intensifying air strikes after the prisoners of war were released and then tried to get Clinton to offer the Serbs an overture of good faith instead. He suggested that Clinton thank Milosevic for releasing the prisoners, a scenario which White House aides called "unlikely," preferring extended middle fingers instead.

Of course, after putting the full force of his spin machine behind an effort to demonize Milosevic and basically the entire Serb population of the world, while glorifying the KLA as "freedom fighters," for Clinton to thank Milosevic for sending those three young Americans back home to their families in good health would have been too blatant a zig-zag even for the master

Jesse Jackson remarked: "Those little steps in the right direction can spare all of us a long and bloody war. We are strong enough to express courtesy."

Maybe "we" are, but the Pantsless Avenger isn’t. Clinton, who tried to send Sister Soljah to Belgrade in Jackson’s place, said, "Let me say how very pleased I am that our three servicemen are coming home from Serbia and to express my thanks to Reverend Jackson and his entire delegation for their hard work in securing their freedom." Slobo, though, can still kiss his cigar.

Now, really, would it have cost Mr. Bill that much to have added to his comment, "And I also appreciate Milosevic allowing these young men to return to their families - and will send back the Serb prisoners we are holding as a reciprocal gesture."

Instead Clinton said he was concerned that the prisoner release was at least in part a "propaganda ploy" by Milosevic to "sow dissension" among NATO members. "We have to have some indication, other than the uprooting of another 10,000 people, that the release of the pilots is somehow related to a general change in the human attitude toward the people of Kosovo," the Mad Bomber said. "And we don't have that yet."

Nothing short of the unconditional surrender that will never be offered will be enough, in other words – and maybe not even that.

It is, by now, close to common knowledge that the KLA is funding much of its terrorist activities in Kosovo with proceeds from its lucrative sale of heroin throughout Europe. The real battle that is going on has been between the KLA and the police, who finding themselves out-gunned by the well-armed drug dealers in the KLA, and called for the assistance from the Yugoslav army.

Somehow, the U.S. Air Force finds itself, at Bill Clinton's PERSONAL command, without the approval of Congress or the United Nations, being used as the air wing of the KLA. It now appears that First Scoundrel is determined that the KLA, a group composed of terrorists and drug-dealers, and associated with another terrorist we know, most notably Osama bin Laden, credited with blowing up a couple of US embassies, will be allowed to operate freely, just as they are in Northern Albania.

It's to Jesse Jackson's credit that he returned from his successful efforts in getting the three prisoners of war released with a rational and reasonable, and I might add, Christian, approach to the current war. He also appears to recognize that the Serbs have not yet begun to fight - but, they will once Bill Clinton sends in ground troops. So far, this war has largely been somewhat akin to shooting fish in a barrel. The Serbs are the fish and NATO, with 90% US Air support, are shooting them in a way that the Serbs have only limited capability of returning meaningful fire.

It is obvious even to non-military types at this point that the supposed Clinton objectives in this war cannot be won – in fact, are diametrically incompatible – with air power alone - any more than they could in North Vietnam. On the ground, it appears, and has been so reported by the Europeans, the Yugoslav army has decimated the KLA terrorists who controlled about 30%-40% of Kosovo a year ago. They have been driven back across the border into their native state of Albania.

Because Clinton needs the martial/foreign policy equivalent of a hummer, the United States of America has become allied with an Albanian terrorist drug dealing gang like the KLA. And so here we are and we Americans so far have allowed a president whom we believed lied under oath to a grand jury to lead the world into a war that will, at a minimum, rekindle the global arms race.

Juan Pablo Cordoba Elias wrote in an article published in early March of this year, "Kosovo represents a strategic zone for terrorism and drug trade. Terrorists are trained in Albania in Ljabinot and Kuks as well as in the military schools in the municipality of Bayram Curri, that borders on Yugoslavia. It is also known that the training camps exist in Libane, near Elbasan, Surca on the mountain Dajti, and some other on Kosovo itself, for example Prizren, but also outside Kosovo, as well as in Montenegro, Macedonia and Sweden.

"From the ideological point of view, Albanian terroristic organizations arose from the military ultra-left wing. For example, the oldest movement, so-called ‘National liberation of Kosovo’ originated from four previously separate secret organizations: ‘National Liberation Movement’, ‘Marxist-Leninist organization of Kosovo’, ‘Communist Marxist-Leninist party of Albanians in Yugoslavia’ and ‘National Red Front.’

"It is well known that this terroristic internal structure was supported by Albanian communist dictator Enver Hoxha – who died in 1985 - and former Albanian president Sali Berisa."

Terrorism borne of left-wing despotism? No WONDER Clinton is backing the KLA Maybe he’s channeling for Hoxha to boot.

"Most of people recruited in the Balkans are conservative villagers - descendants of 'balists', famous Albanian fascists who, together with Italians, fought against Serbs during World War II."

This is the same group who were responsible for the Serb Holocaust, the slaughter of almost 1,000,000 Serbs during the German occupation of Yugoslavia

"If we add to all this the fact that the terrorists are mostly Moslems, it seems that things are getting quite another dimension.

"The Commanding center of the so-called 'Kosovo Liberation Army' (KLA) consists of military and police forces that the self-proclaimed "Republic of Kosovo" tried to create until 1992 as its own constitutional forces. Both organizations, "National Kosovo Liberation Movement" and "Liberation Army" are typical terroristic organizations by their organized structure, with leaders outside Kosovo and Metohia.

"It is considered that there are around 6.000 trained terrorists on Kosovo and Metohia, and that 3.000 more are on the training courses in Albania, Turkey and western Germany. The intelligence center of the "Liberation Army" - located somewhere in the region near Pristina - is not only in charge of Kosovo and Metohia but also all the places in former Yugoslavia inhabited by Albanians."

Apparently quite a few of this group have now been driven out of Kosovo by Serb forces, or killed. Yet, the Washington-based media, until this week, has been remarkably silent about just what the KLA is and why the Serbs are so determined to send them packing back to Albania.

I find it a little hard to believe that, if li’l old I can ferret out the real story through my limited sources, the real story is unknown in both government and network media sources. Yet, it is only just beginning to come out, and the opposition to it being told to the American people is astounding. However, little by little the real story IS coming out.

Just today the following information was reported by Bob Dejurdjevic at Truth in Media (www.truthinmedia.com): "Recently obtained intelligence documents show that drug agents in five countries, including the United States, believe the KLA has aligned itself with an extensive organized crime network centered in Albania that smuggles heroin and some cocaine to buyers throughout Western Europe and, to a lesser extent, the United States.

"The documents tie members of the Albanian Mafia to a drug smuggling cartel based in Kosovo's provincial capital, Pristina. The cartel is manned by ethic Albanians who are members of the Kosovo National Front, whose armed wing is the KLA. The documents show it is one of the most powerful heroin smuggling organizations in the world, with much of its profits being diverted to the KLA to buy weapons.

"The clandestine movement of drugs over a collection of land and sea routes from Turkey through Bulgaria, Greece and Yugoslavia to Western Europe and elsewhere is so frequent and massive that intelligence officials have dubbed the circuit the "Balkan Route."

The American people, and most of Europe, have been deceived. Have the heads of government - Bill Clinton and Tony Blair - been deceived? Or, is some other agenda being advanced, under the cover of a dropping bombs on civilian targets for "humanitarian" purposes?

May 5, 1999

In the last week the U.S. House of Representatives, the People's House, has:

(1)Rejected a Resolution to Declare War on Yugoslavia

(2)Rejected a Resolution to approve sending ground troops to fight the war now being waged by NATO, with United States air power

(3)Rejected a Resolution, in a tie vote, to approve the air war now being waged by NATO with United States air power

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate tabled a resolution that would have given Bill Clinton congressional authorization to use "all means necessary to win the current battle in Yugoslavia."

Presumably, that approval would OK the use of nuclear warheads to dig out the Yugoslav army which is now dug in hardened underground facilities which, according to the Serb military, can only be destroyed by a direct hit with an atomic bomb. The resolution's chief sponsor, collaborationist Senator John McCain, openly complained Monday about the parliamentary maneuver to table the motion. "Apparently, the hard facts of war need not inconvenience the Senate at this time. And the solemn duties that war imposes on us can be postponed indefinitely," the Arizona "Republican" said with sarcasm.

This is a bald faced "chicken" challenge, clearly intended to appeal to the mostly male senate's fear of being called a coward if they refuse to fight. However, in a vote of 78 "noes" and 22 "yeas" the Senate did table the motion which was described by Senate Majority Waster Trent Lott (R-MS) on Sunday as the "wrong time" to debate the issue of a full scale war. He and his Democrat counterpart, Minority Schemer Tom Daschle (D-SD), agreed to put off the resolution for a "week or 10 days," saying "the timing is not exactly right" for what could become a bitter debate about the Clinton Tyranny's Kosovo policy.

McCain, who considers himself a Republican candidate for the 2000 GOP presidential nomination, was one of the earliest voices to say that the U.S. must win this military action "at all costs" and to call on the Clinton Tyranny to prepare for the possibility of deploying ground troops. McCain's proposal would have authorized the Arkansas Patton "to use all necessary force and other means, in concert with United States allies, to accomplish United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization objectives."

The Clinton Tyranny did not request this authorization from Congress because Bubba obviously doesn’t think he needs it. Regardless, with the support of both Lott and Daschle the move to table passed 78-22. However, the other reasons for Clinton not pushing for the approval of the resolution and for senators on both sides of the aisle to at least temporarily reject the use of ground troops are varied and complex.

Not the least of the reasons that the Clinton White House did not push for "authority" to send in ground troops was because Clinton already has a plan in place to send in ground troops - WITHOUT Congressional authority. U.S. forces are already involved in NATO air strikes on Serb targets in Yugoslavia and Kosovo, and Clinton has spent much of the last month getting Apache helicopters in place in Albania to finalize the kill. Are helicopters part of ground troops or part of an air war? Actually, military experts say, they are back-up for ground troops. By sending them, Clinton has already made the decision to send in ground troops.

What may not have yet been decided is just WHO the ground troops will be. At this point, we understand from both American and Serb sources, the plan is to use what is being termed as the "Kosovo Liberation Army" (KLA) as the ground troops. Only, of course, the Serbs have mostly wiped out the KLA in the last few weeks, since the Air strikes by NATO began on March 24th.

But, no matter. A NEW KLA is being groomed to take its place - under the direction, no less, of a Croatian general - one of those responsible for driving out or killing hundreds of thousands of Serbs from the Krajina region of Croatia, is now training a new cadre of KLA "soldiers." Some soldiers and marines are reporting via emails that they already have orders to "go where you are being told no American troops will go."

In Bill Clinton we are dealing with a man who somehow managed to beat an impeachment by declaring that oral sex is not sex and that his lie about not having sex with "that woman - Monica Lewinsky" was, therefore, not a lie. Just imagine what that kind of language twisting he could do to the words "ground war." Just exactly what, do you suppose, is a "ground war" in Bill Clinton's version of the English language?

I am told that about the ONLY real military use of Apache helicopters is for back-up of ground troops. So, if Bill Clinton first sends in the helicopters - after all they are flying machines - and THEN backs up the helicopters with "people on the ground," is that actually any different than sending in warplanes which have support soldiers on the ground over in Italy to service said aircraft? Don't be surprised if at some point in the future you hear just such an explanation for a new phase of the "air war" which requires "some ground personnel."

Just yesterday, A huge haul of arms and ammunition, apparently intended for Kosovo's separatist guerrillas, was found in an Italian port aboard aid trucks leased by the Roman Catholic charity Caritas, an Italian daily reported on Monday. Il Corriere della Sera said customs officials searched the trucks at Italy's Adriatic port of Ancona on April 12 and found 30 tons of weapons, including grenade- and missile-launchers, as well as munitions. The material, heading for Albania, was apparently intended for the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), fighting Serb forces in Kosovo, the report said. The newspaper said the trucks had started their journey at a Caritas center in Sarajevo and passed through a Croatian port before landing at Ancona, from where they were to be sent to the Shkodra refugee camp in Albania.

The Apache helicopters are already in place in Albania, and now Clinton is smuggling in the arms for his KLA minions. Clintonoids tried hard to get a resolution approved by the House that supported the current "air war." Presumably, although it was not mentioned, the Apaches would be part of the current "air war." If the new KLA, which is being armed and trained at this very moment, invades Kosovo on the ground, and then gets knocked out by the Serbs, what would Clinton then do? Would he give up and withdraw his forces, which is basically what his hero, John F. Kennedy, did when a very similar scheme failed in the Bay of Pigs?

That invasion, which took place 38 years ago, still festers. The Central Intelligence Agency had been training anti-revolutionary Cuban exiles in Guatemala for a possible invasion of their homeland. After the election of President Kennedy, the plan for invasion continued with minor, yet significant alterations. When Cuban exiles attempted to invade Cuba in April of 1961, it was unsuccessful, largely because the Cuban people supported Castro's revolution and in part to the too-limited role that the United States government played during the battle, due to trying to create an image of it being "only Cubans" involved.

The invading force thought they would have the support of their fellow Cubans but didn't. The people supported Castro and Castro's air power proved to be effective. Castro's airforce destroyed the US command vessel, Marsopa , and supply ship, the Houston. By the time the fighting ended more than 90 exiles had been killed and the rest taken prisoner.

A 150 page internal investigation of the Bay of pigs blamed its failure on the CIA's poor handling of the invasion. The report cited the CIA for, among other things, misinforming officials in the Kennedy administration, poor planning, and using faulty intelligence (Boy, some things NEVER change). CIA officials and Cuban exiles believed Kennedy's failure to approve air strikes to back up the invaders never gave the mission a chance to be successful.

Naturally, the Bay of Pigs invasion made Castro wary of the United States. He believed the Americans would try to take over the island again. Because of his fear when the Soviets agreed to take the missiles out of Cuba, one of the terms was that the U.S. could not attempt to invade again.

So, Kennedy's errors, which he blamed on everyone else, effectively consolidated Fidel Castro's grip on the Cuban nation.

It would appear that Clinton has something very similar to the Bay of Pigs invasion planned - only this time WITH air support, but using the "soldiers" of the KLA drug dealers, the military expertise of Croatian war criminal generals who are experienced in killing Serbs and ethnically cleansing Krajina, and using weapons supplied by the United States.

Looks like December 7, 1941 won’t be the only day that will "live in infamy."

May 6, 1999

Following are exerpts of a speech given by Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) who just returned from a fact-finding mission to Kosovo. It sounds like he found some facts he didn’t expect to find.

Senator Inhofe, on the floor of the Senate said April 26th, "As I was going across Kosovo, I had a couple of experiences. One experience I had was seeing two dead bodies. These were obviously soldiers. When we turned them over, we saw that they were not Albanians; they were Serbs. They had been executed at close range by the KLA.

"We went on a little bit further. I saw on the map something called a `no-go zone.' I said: 'I would like to go in to see what it is like.' They said: 'You can't do that; it is occupied by the KLA, the Albanian military, and they will kill anybody who comes in. They don't care if you are a United States Senator or someone from the press. Nonetheless, you will be dead if you go in there.'

The Senator didn't go in. The "justice" one writer spoke of is the "justice" of seizing the real estate which now belongs to the Serbs. The Albanian claim is that they, who are descendants of two ancient European tribes, the Illyrian and the Tosks, who were the first settlers of the region. Pirates from the ancient nation of Illyria attacked Greek and Roman shipping, which prompted Rome to capture it in 200 BC. When the Roman Empire was divided in A.D. 395, it became part of the Byzantine Empire. The Slavs, which included both Bulgars and Serbs, invaded the area between 600 and 1400 AD and the Turks conquered the land in 1478. During World War I, Albania had no central government and Italy captured it. In 1928, one of the tribal chiefs, Ahmed Beg Zog, declared himself King Zog and under Zog Albania made some progress in the fields of education and the economy. In World War II, Italy again captured Albania and following the war Enver Hoxha, an ultra-orthodox communist, made himself the dictator, and nationalized the few industries that existed. Hoxha ran Albania as his personal fiefdom. He forced pure communism upon his subjects, with unspeakable punishments to those who strayed from the party line and officially declared atheism the State religion. In 1960 Albania severed ties with the Soviet Empire, because Hoxha felt they were becoming too conservative. He then allied with Red China. In the late 1970's, with the decline of Maoist thought, Albania severed ties with Beijing, because Hoxha thought Beijing was also becoming too conservative. Alone in the world, Hoxha rallied the population to stave off immanent attack from imaginary enemies such as the United States, Greece, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Empire and Italy. 750,000 pillboxes, one for each family, were built in an area the size of New Jersey. In case of invasion by air, razor sharp spikes were placed upon every fence post. The totalitarian state collapsed in 1990 and today much of Albania basically is run by the KLA, which ended up with most of the Albanian weapons after the government and economy collapsed.

The KLA's sense of "justice" is to return the Kosovo region to its Illyrian ownership, which was lost about 200 BC to the Romans and about 700 AD to the Serbs. This kind of "justice" would return all of the United States to the Indians, which would force 260 million Americans to go somewhere else.

However, after the death of Hoxha in 1985, Albania became strategically important to the NATO powers for two major reasons. One, it offered NATO and the U.S. an important military outpost in the turbulent southern Balkans (in the 1990-96 period Albania opened its ports and airstrips for U.S. military use and housed CIA spy planes for flights over Bosnia). Two, the U.S. and Western Europe feared a southward spread of the Yugoslav conflict to Kosovo (the southwestern part of the former Yugoslavia) and to Macedonia-both of which have large ethnic Albanian populations. The U.S. wanted (emphasis on the past tense) an Albanian government that would not stoke ethnic unrest among the 2.5 million ethnic Albanians living outside of its borders.

According to the Institute for Policy Studies, "The U.S. played a major role in the election of Albania's Democratic Party in 1992, and it then provided the new government with military, economic, and political support. In the 1991-96 period Washington directly provided Albania $236 million in economic aid, making the U.S. the second largest bilateral economic donor (following Italy). In early 1997 the U.S. froze its military aid and training programs." During the Clinton Tyranny about "two-thirds of U.S. economic aid has, uncharacteristically, been directed to support privatization and to open Albania to U.S. trade and investment through U.S.-government created institutions like the Albanian-American Enterprise Fund. The International Monetary Fund and World Bank also promoted programs of privatization and price stabilization and then, together with the U.S., praised Albania as the "economic miracle of Eastern Europe," even though much of Albania's growth was based on sanctions-busting in the former Yugoslavia and illegal trading of arms and drugs."

In the past few weeks, the United States has moved into Albania in force, stationing Apache helicopters, which are intended to be used for the invasion of Yugoslavia, at the airport in Tirane. The KLA chieftain, Hashim Thaci, called "the snake" by his supporters, is wanted by the Serbs who would like to arrest him for murdering policemen. This is the man who calls Aunt Madeline on her private number with his cellular telephone.

Is it dangerous for a journalist to let the public know the facts about America's new "friends" that their taxes are supporting under the leadership of William Jefferson Clinton? Perhaps. However, our children and grandchildren are in greater danger by them NOT knowing who they could called upon to die for, if Clinton manages to start World War III.

May 7, 1999

Behold, some much-needed "Serb propaganda":

From Ivanka, a 74 year old writer in Belgrade to her daughter in America:

"May 5th-(Phone) Power goes on, power goes off. No electricity at Olga's right now. Our showers are cold, laundry is dirty, and food is getting spoiled. I am afraid to use elevators, as power failures are so unpredictable that people are getting stuck and have to be rescued. Considering that my building is almost empty, who knows how long I'd have to wait for help if that happened. I have no idea how my 90 year old neighbor is handling it all - I've spent most of the time at Olga's.

"It's frustrating, not being able to watch the news, nor access the Internet. I wonder if that was the reason for strangling of our power lines - killing journalists has proven too costly in public relations points...Realistically, the army depends the least on our country's power grid. They have batteries and generators, as I am sure NATO knows very well if even I can think of it.

"The food in the stores is getting bad. The milk we bought today was spoiled, and there was no bread in the morning. However, by the middle of the day, it arrived. Some of the stores are not open, and there is a great big rush on any of the pubs that still have electricity - only places you can still find cold beer...

"We are starting to open preserves, as there are no cans (except for fish, for some reason). Still, we are lucky. We live on the third floor, and still have water. Lucky to have found gas just days before the power went off. Poor people in the high rises, on the 22nd and 20th floors are having a hard time, and so are the people living in the hilly areas of Belgrade where there is no water whatsoever. They are looking for water anywhere they can find it, and there are cisterns around, distributing it to the most affected areas. Unfortunately, with very little gasoline for cars and trucks, there's not much that can be done. Trolleys are stopped too. This is, I guess, the kinder, gentler war. Instead of shooting us with a big gun to the head, they are smothering our faces in the suffocating pillow of exhaustion and deprivation. Much less noise from the press that way - dark streets don't photograph well.

"We've come to depend on papers and friends to find out what goes on. Occasionally, the TV comes on. Still, there's plenty of information, although, of course, our ability to hear the news from the outside world is now severely limited, thanks to NATO that masterminded our isolation. If they bombed SRT TV station for "lying", shouldn't they at least kick themselves for managing to single handedly eliminate most of the independent information we can receive?

"One wonderful news: There was a thank you note left for Yugoslavia by one of the young soldiers freed! His name is Chris Stone.

"He actually said that he will be praying for us and that he hopes for the end of the war. He even learned a few words of our language. His president might not have manners, but Chris has shown the kindness and warmth that I noticed in other young people of America, when I was visiting San Francisco. They were always happy to help me get on the bus, in the grocery store, to answer my questions. I am sure that, if there was a way to have each American soldier meet a Yugoslav person, sit and talk over coffee, this war would be over within a day. That's why there is the need to distance from the victim, destroy from afar - people are overall decent, and would throw their weapons down in horror if they realized what they were doing.

"I was lucky to reach the director of my music school in Panchevo, who was able to tell me what goes on across the river, in the choked city. The smoke from the burning refinery is still raising. It was estimated that right after the disaster, the amount of carcinogens in the air was over 10,000 times the safe level.

"The entire part of the city next to the refinery had to be evacuated - Vojlovica, where mostly the Slovaks and Hungarians lived. Some wonderful people of Slovakia have been helping to get the poor Panchevars out of the most endangered areas. Local Red Cross and Hrasko Teresa, a Slovak angel, have organized the transport of 200 Slovakian children into Slovakia, where they'll be safe from NATO bombing. Hungarians mostly left for their relatives' homes around Serbia and Hungary, who knows where."

Bill Clinton and his NATO stooges have bombed TV stations, killing working journalists, power plants, and water mains - leaving not just Serbs, but Albanians, Slovakians, Hungarians, Americans living in Belgrade and others without basic necessities for life. But journalists should not mention it? Even though targeting civilian water supplies is a violation of the same "international law" to which Sick Willie has been burning faux incense for the past six-plus years?

The warmongering, Dem-stroking, "grown-in-office"-like-a-cow-carcass-ripening-in-the-summer-sun Senator McCain has stated that, while the bombing was not well thought out, now that Clinton is doing it we need to get behind him.

Bullbleep. Why should we get behind a policy that is simply wrong? Certainly liberal Democrats would not have called on the American people to support a wrong-headed Reagan policy that was destroying a nation of people who have long been one of our most courageous and valiant allies; nor would the Gipper, who was endlessly accused by Dems of plotting to "send American boys to die in somebody else’s civil war," have pursued such blatantly self-serving aggression.

Propaganda is what is going on when the networks of America spend hours everyday, as Fox News did yesterday, repeating over and over stories about the "suffering" Albanian refugees, who looked hale and hearty getting off the plane in New Jersey, while ignoring the suffering of Hungarian, Serb, Slovakian and other groups who are being bombed by NATO in Yugoslavia. Many of the people the bombs are landing on are refugees, Serb refugees, who were driven out of Krajina, Croatia a few short years ago. Politically correct sympathy even for refugees, it appears, is to be limited to those given the Clinton stamp of approval.

When the media reports or withholds stories, based on the identity of the refugees - THAT is propaganda. If we should have sympathy for tornado victims in America or Albanian refugees in New Jersey, why the insistence that the human suffering of others who live in Yugoslavia, whom we are bombing, be ignored?

The answer is obvious. Clinton knows full well that he does not have the support of the American people for his bombing. However, many have not heard enough of the story to understand yet what is happening – and that is something Clinton does NOT want them to know.

At this writing we are hearing that a "peace agreement" may be in the offing, as the G-8 nations meet in Bonn, Germany. Perhaps it will materialize. On the other hand, it may not – and either way, Clinton won’t abide by it in his obstinate insistence on the Serbs surrendering their sovereignty.

May 13, 1999

Early Wednesday morning, following several days of angry protests around the world over the bombing of the Belgrade Chinese Embassy, the most intense bombing since the beginning of the Balkans Blitz on March 24th took place as NATO struck a variety of cities with vengeance.

In Paracin, NATO aircraft struck again at a refugee settlement that housed Serbs - refugees from Croatia and Bosnia – firing over 20 projectiles in a fierce 15-minute attack.

According to Serb sources, in Belgrade, NATO warplanes fired one missile which fell between the suburbs of Grocka and Begaljica, about twenty kilometers east of Belgrade. The missile exploded about twenty meters from a power line without damaging it.

In the town of Kursumlija, NATO aircraft struck for the eighth time at a bridge spanning the mouth of the Kostajnica and Toplica Rivers in the Kursumlija area, on the road linking Nis and Pristina, firing two missiles at 9:40 p.m. on Tuesday. The bridge has already been damaged in previous NATO air raids, which made traffic no longer possible.

Fuel depots were hit, one of them empty, at Kraljevo and Sombor. The bridge in Kokn Brod, which is the shortest route between Serbia and Montenegro and the Radio Television transmitter at Vrsacki Breg was hit for the second time. On the previous attack, all the equipment had been destroyed, which put the transmitter out of use.

In Pristina, according to the report, "NATO planes continued on Tuesday afternoon their bombing of civilian targets in villages throughout the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, begun in the morning. NATO's targets are equally villages populated by Serbs and those populated by ethnic Albanians in the municipalities of Podujevo, Novo Brdo, Kosovska, Kamenica, Vucitrn, Orahovac, Stimlje and Lipljan.

There were both dead and wounded when NATO fired three missiles at 6:15 p.m. on the farmers' club in the village of Svetlje, where people displaced from the Podujevo area are accommodated. The exact number of casualties is yet to be established. One missile fell on the village of Tresnja in the same municipality, and four on the village of Gornje Ljupce. There were no casualties in these attacks, but damage to civilian facilities is extensive.

The village of Strezovce in the Novo Brdo municipality was hit with three missiles at 7:25 p.m., and less than half an hour later, NATO fired one missile on a private house in the village of Koretik, Kosovska Kamenica municipality, but nobody was hurt. Only civilian facilities in the village of Velika Reka in the Vucitrn municipality were targeted.

Shortly after 4 p.m., four missiles fell between the village of Crnoljevo and the Stimlje municipal town. NATO showered cluster bombs on the village of Livadje in the Lipljan municipality. No details were immediately available about the consequences of the atrocity committed against that Serb village situated 15 km south of the province's chief city of Pristina. Velika Hoca near Orahovac was hit with three missiles, but there were no casualties.

Reports from NATO itself have claimed that 90,000 "ordnances" have been dropped on Yugoslavia. Jamie Shea arrogantly announced that "90% of those bombs and missiles" hit their targets. That, of course, means that 9,000 hit somewhere else - and that somewhere else includes schools, hospitals, churches, monastaries, homes, etc. And, of course, NATO targets also INCLUDE schools, hospitals, churches, monastaries, homes, etc., so Shea’s assurances are an even colder comfort.

The fiction that all the Albanians fleeing Kosovo have been "forced out at gunpoint" by Serbs could only be believed by a nation, like the United States, which has not had a war on its soil since 1865. People find it extremely uncomfortable when two armies are shooting up their neighborhood. It happens on every continent. It happened in the Revolutionary War. Thousands fled to Canada. It happened in Zaire recently.

Now, there is no doubt that the KLA, which even our own State Department was recognizing as a terrorist gang a year ago, and the Yugoslav police and Army, don't like each other. The Yugoslav Army used the bombing as an end to negotiations with the KLA and moved in to eliminate them. In Tuesday's San Francisco Chronicle, reporter Frank Viviano, wrote about the problems the Serb offensive against the KLA has caused in the underworld of crime and drugs in Europe:

"As NATO bombs and Serb troops disrupt a Kosovar crime network that has dominated the narcotics trade across the continent, underworld clans from neighboring Albania are making a powerful bid to take over. They are the real government of Europe's poorest -- and most lawless -- nation, and by some estimates even more dangerous to the Allied campaign than the tanks and anti-aircraft systems of Yugoslavia. `Albania has become the leading country in a wide variety of trafficking, in clandestine immigration, in prostitution. It ranks as a top exporter of narcotics,' the nation's own former president, Sali Berisha, charged in a January speech accusing his successors of corruption and links to criminal syndicates. `Until recently, our heroin abusers got their supplies from Kosovars based in Zurich,' Chief Jean-Bernard Lagger of the Geneva police brigade told investigators from Geopolitical Drug Watch (OGD), Europe's most respected narcotics surveillance organization. `But now, Albanian traffickers have moved into Geneva to deliver drugs to their doorstep.'

"Police officials say that the clans, known as `fares' in Albanian, have even begun contesting turf with South American cartels in the European cocaine market."

Meanwhile, over in Beijing, the three journalists killed when American planes bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade were buried while "The Politburo Standing Committee decided that if the Washington-led NATO has its way in Europe, it will next target China," a diplomatic source in Beijing said. "The elite body has endorsed a number of measures to seize the initiative through asserting itself in foreign policy." (See today's South China Morning Post)

And, in Russia, Yeltsin just dumped his Prime Minister, Yevgeny Primakov, and the communist-dominated Duma voted 243 to 20 to ask Boris Yeltsin to resign, as China announced it would not support the Russian peace proposal, insisting that all peace initiatives stay on "hold" until NATO stops its bombing. Of course, NATO promptly launched its biggest day of attacks yet against the people of Yugoslavia.

All this is taking place as Washington "insiders" announce that Bill Clinton and Aunt Madeleine, who started the war with Yugoslavia thinking Milosevic would give up Kosovo after a couple of days of bombing, were pinning all their hopes on Boris Yeltsin to somehow get them out of the mess they have created. After all, Boris realizes the price Russia paid for its military response to the Chechyna rebellion, when a small group of guerrillas lowered Russia's status from a super-power to a beggar state, seeking loans from the West to just survive. By the time Clinton sends in ground troops to Kosovo, the hatred for Americans will be so wide and deep in the surviving Serbs that it could very well end up as the American version of Yeltsin's Chechyna debacle.

And, just think. It might have all been avoided if sixteen senators had put law and country above gutter partisanship and voted "yes" instead of "no" on the vote to convict Bill Clinton of lying under oath - which they all acknowledged he had done. The Democrats didn't think it made any difference if the President lies under oath - as long as the person is a Democrat.

Think about that the next time you are tempted to say the vote of one person, or a few persons, can't make any difference.

May 14, 1999

This entry, written Thursday evening, discusses two e-mails sent on Thursday from Belgrade and Novi Sad sources. They are samples of a number of e-mail received from Serbs in America and elsewhere who firmly believe that a major propaganda move is about to be made in which NATO bombers will deliberately bomb Albanian refugees - possibly a refugee camp - and blame it on the Serbs to "justify" the invasion of Yugoslavia.

At 10:30 PM May 14 the following report was published by Bob Dejurdjevic, of Truth in Media:

1. NATO (Again!) Hits Albanian Refugee Column Killing Almost 100

KORISA, May 14 - At least 100 Albanian refugees were killed and many others were wounded when NATO attacked a column of refugees near Korisa, northeast of Prizren (see the map at http://www.truthinmedia.org/Kosovo/day53up1.html as well as the photos). The Kosovar Albanians were reportedly trying to return to their homes when they were struck, the Serb media reported today.

The bombing seems like a carbon-copy of the Apr. 14 NATO attack on a column of Albanian refugees in Kosovo in which over 70 people were killed (Day 23, Update 1, Item 2, Apr. 15 -http://www.truthinmedia.org/Kosovo/day23up1.html). Except that this attack happened at night, shifting the possible blame from the pilot to the NATO guidance systems. NATO shill Jamie Shea said NATO was "investigating" the incident. "NATO does not target civilians," he said.

TiM Ed.: Yeah, right. Try that "lie and deny" spin on the 1,200 civilians which NATO has already killed, and over 5,000 which it has maimed.

According to a TiM Serb source who had heard a testimony by an old Albanian on the local Radio-IN, most of the casualties were Albanian women and children. NATO bombs fell around midnight on the heaviest night of NATO's attack so far in its 52-day war on Serbia, according to an Agence France Presse report.

Now read the following, written 24 hours before the second bombing of Albanian refugees:

"Vladimir Konecni, a professor at the University of California at San Diego, forwarded to me a report on yesterday's NATO bombing raids on Novi Sad, written by a young woman awakened at 4:15 AM by bombs dropping around her.

"This is the same raid that Clinton justified yesterday by comparing Slobodan Milosevic with Adolf Hitler slaughtering 6 million Jews. Of course, Hitler and his minions and friends, the Croatians, Slovenes, Abanians and Muslims, also slaughtered 1.5. million Serbs, but Clinton never mentions that. "Though his ethnic cleansing is not the same as the ethnic extermination of the Holocaust," the Sick One was forced to concede, "the two are related; both vicious, premeditated, systematic oppression fueled by religious and ethnic hatred," Clinton told a group of 200 Veterans of Foreign Wars members at the National Defense University at Fort McNair who must have been bound, gagged, and tied and/or handcuffed to their chairs to have sat through the whole spewing.

"On March 24th, he told the nation, in explaining his attack on the sovereign nation of Yugoslavia, ‘Imagine what would happen if we and our allies instead decided just to look the other way, as these people were massacred on NATO's doorstep. ...That is why we have acted now -- because we care about saving innocent lives; because we have an interest in avoiding an even crueler and costlier war; and because our children need and deserve a peaceful, stable, free Europe.’

"He painted a picture of an evil Milosevic preparing to ‘massacre’ the Albanians. Actually, with the bombing raids, Milosevic would have had every bit of cover he needed to do just that - massacre the Albanians. But, he didn't do that. What he did was to move into Kosovo to put an end to the KLA, a terrorist organization which supplies much of the heroin in Europe that had been killing Serb farmers, mailmen, policeman, etc. And, he provided gasoline for buses, tractors, trucks and cars for a massive exodus out of Kosovo - not only for Albanians, but for Serbs and other ethnic groups. Considering the shortage of gasoline due to the NATO destruction of all of Yugoslavia's refineries, that is rather significant."

Did the Yugoslav Army order the Albanians out of their homes? Probably. That is sort of standard operating procedure when civilians are in the way of a war. Remember the thousands of children sent to America when Hitler was bombing England? Of course, at least a third of the Albanians were illegal aliens, and not citizens of Yugoslavia. But, that somehow never gets reported in the media or mentioned by Clinton and his interns.

At the beginning of the NATO bombing there were approximately 2 million people in Kosovo and about 8 million people in the rest of Yugoslavia. Before the break-up of Yugoslavia, there were about 22 million people in Yugoslavia. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the war in both Kosovo and the rest of Serbia. All who can leave the battlefield, have - and not just Albanians, but Serbs, Hungarians, Gypsies. The number of people remaining in the bombed out nation is unknown. But, there are many still there and many of them, especially the Serbs, do not expect to survive the NATO bombing attacks. If they are not killed by bombs, they will die of starvation as NATO destroys their electrical system, their means of heating their homes in Yugoslavia's bitter winters, their means of livelihood, their ability to refrigerate what food remains, their transportation system, schools, churches, religious shrines, etc.

It should be obvious to even the most callously obtuse observer of the NATO aggression that those who have left the country and are living in refugee camps supplied by the United States, Britain and other nations, are far more apt to survive the NATO bombs than those still in Yugoslavia.

And what was the reason Old Blood & Stains gave to start the bombing? "All around Kosovo there are other small countries, struggling with their own economic and political challenges -- countries that could be overwhelmed by a large, new wave of refugees from Kosovo." That is precisely what has happened, thanks to NATO "ordnance." What will the total destruction of Yugoslavia, the blocking and pollution of the Danube river, the release of chemicals through the bombing of industrial plants, do to the surrounding "small countries, struggling with their own economic and political challenges?"

Professor Konecni's young friend wrote of her personal experience in yesterday's NATO "Bombing for Peace":

May 13th

"The seventh week of war ended in a breath-taking and bare-footed manner: at four fifteen this morning, a chain of terrible blasts woke me up. My mother jumped on her feet, checked on my brother who was sleeping in the next room and ran out of the flat 'like a bullet', as a Serb phrase

goes. 'bring me some shoes!' she called from the hall. I grabbed my jacket and my gym shoes which were lying right beside my mattress, and ran after her. but wait - some shoes?? So I started fingering around (maybe there is a better word for trying to find 'some shoes' for your mother in the pitch darkness while you're still half asleep and utterly confused by the roar outside, but I cannot think of

any) and found nothing better than a pair of my dad's leather slippers size eleven. So I took them with me. Anything shoe-like would do at that moment!

"I cannot remember how I made those three stores (and a half) down to the shelter with my hands full of shoes. The next thing I recall was the giggle. All the tenants in the shelter, still warm and dizzy from sleep, laughed their heads off when they saw the two of us barefooted. Mum and me laughed too. ' I took my shoes off only two hours ago', she said, and the giggle intensified. It happens - after two or three peaceful, blastless, nights in a row you become nonchalant and take your shoes off like a peacetime fool.

"Although in shock and very scared, people giggled. Even the kids were not grouchy as they usually are when taken down into the shelter in the middle of their tightest sleep. Two three year old girls sat in their chairs, eating peanuts. 'This is like in a cinema', one of them said. We all laughed. They were so tarantino-cool. And cinema it was, tarantinian for sure. What NATO hit with six missiles, as it turned out later, was the already damaged and luckily vacated Novi Sad television building, and the refinery, which is now hit almost by default. What happened to the hosts of small family houses in the vicinity of the television building nobody dared think.

"The sky turned blazing yellow, as opposed to the darkened TV screen. So NATO attempted at putting out our TV screens again. The worst is that we have already gone numb at demolishing bridges, factories, transmitters and school buildings - we only pray for human losses to be minimal, and only hope to survive. Let the life go on, barefooted, without bridges, without electricity and running water, without news and media. Just let it go on. Let us live.

"After coming back from the shelter - it was half past five - I opened my mailbox, and found an alarming message on how the US Government ordered Loral Orion company to shut down its satellite feeds for Internet customers in Yugoslavia. There we are. The overall putting out. First NATO wanted to block the flow of state-run news, and thus force Yugoslavs to fall for the Alliance. Now, NATO wants to erase 11 million of us from the public mind. It wants to take our faces and voices from us, it wants to stop us from telling the story of the ultimate tragedy. Maybe NATO does this in order to suppress its guilt of bombing innocent people? The easiest way to forget is to turn victims into figures. The victims become figures when they are denied their identity. The identity is denied when you are deprived of your voice, of telling your story, of possessing your own experience. Is Yugoslavia going to become a country without its narrative - without the narrative equaling its very existence?"

History will record that a man who avoided military service as a youth unleashed horror and bloodshed on a tiny nation, determined to preserve its Christian faith and its liberty, in order to give their sacred land to infidels - in fact, to the Muslims who oppressed them for more than 400 years. Why? Was he not trying to save his "legacy" by starting a war - since the only presidents remembered are the war presidents? Was that it? What, do you suppose, now that the whole thing has backfired and there is a rising revulsion worldwide in his determined annihilation of the Serb people, will he do to extricate himself?

There is no shortage of fear at what Bill Clinton may be planning to do. Here is a sample:

"URGENT!! This is a warning! There is a possibility that NATO is preparing a staged massacre of Albanian refugees to get the excuse to attack Yugoslavia from all sides and in that way defy the decisions made by the US Congress. We could witness a new Markale. [This appears to refer to the bombing of the Markale Marketplace which the Muslims blamed on Serbs, and which the Serbs claimed was done by Muslims themselves to inflame world opinion against them.]"

"There are indications that NATO is preparing a ground offensive on Yugoslavia as a whole and not only on Kosovo. According to the information received from Macedonia and Albania all the Albanian refugees are evacuating from the border areas and are being replaced with NATO troops. Romania, Croatia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Macedonia and Albania were all forced to sign the documents allowing NATO troops to launch the ground attack from their territories. CNN has sent three full crews to Albania equipped with satellite broadcasting equipment. Knowing their reputation they always get sent to the crisis area "before" anything starts so that they can prepare for the coverage of the "unexpected" event. There are also indications that NATO is preparing to arrange a false "massacre of innocent Albanian refugees" that will be used as a excuse for the attack. Our sources say that it will be probably done as a bombing of a refugee camp in Albania or Macedonia."

To date, as noted yesterday by Greek foreign minister Yorgos Papandreu, NATO's attack on Yugoslavia has been "a complete failure." According to "Atinaiki", Papandreu said at a press conference, that in spite of a six-week bombarding, "none of the political objectives were achieved." Papandreu also pointed out the contradiction in the US position, saying that USA had "signed the G8 plan in Bonn and on the other hand intensified air strikes."

Bill Clinton is now basically cornered by his own mindless aggression. Throughout the world, populations and governments are becoming more and more insistent that the bombing cease. Whether or not the reports are correct that a "massacre of innocent Albanian refugees" is being plotted, considering Clinton's past behavior when cornered, we can expect something that will be used by his media friends to try to save his bacon, and it probably will be done in a way to try to rationalize the suffering of the Serbs as more "humanitarianism."

However, those Serbs who survive - and most of them will survive - will have more than Bill Clinton and most who follow him will ever have. They will have their families' love and respect, and they will have their faith in God, which has allowed them to suffer incredible atrocities over the years while retaining a spirit that simply cannot be broken. With that, they will be far better prepared to face a rapidly disintegrating world than most of the rest of us will ever be.

May 17, 1999

Last Thursday night I passed on two warnings from people experiencing the bombing by NATO on the ground in Yugoslavia. One of them, written by a young girl, told about waking in the early hours of the morning with bombs dropping around her family's apartment building and rushing to the bomb shelter without shoes. The other came from several sources and was an "urgent" warning that "There is a possibility that NATO is preparing a staged massacre of Albanian refugees to get the excuse to attack Yugoslavia."

Within hours after it was posted, the news was announced, first from Serb information sources, and finally an admission from NATO, that a second Albanian convoy had been bombed - killing almost 100 people, mostly women and children.

Many would no doubt have scorned and ridiculed the very notion that Clinton would use NATO to carry out such a dastardly deed. Only a "Clinton-hater" could dream up doggerel like that and actually believe it, right? And, truth be told, even after it has happened, one still can’t quite come to terms with it; one still finds oneself asking, "Is NATO actually going to stage an attack on an Albanian Refugee Camp?"

Yes, and then some. So far they have attacked two Albanian refugee groups AND the Chinese Embassy, plus a number of schools, churches and hospitals. Of course, NATO spokesmen tell us these were "not intentional" - or at least they were "not intentionally" attacking refugee groups and the Chinese Embassy. We were told by Jamie Shea, NATO BSer, that the latest bombing of Albanian refugees at Korisa was a "legitimate" military target and he didn't know what the Albanians were doing there in the parking lot.

Apparently, they were camping there - in the open. If it was a "military" target, where are the photographs of the destroyed military equipment and/or soldiers? Or, was this merely another one of those "unfortunate mistakes," perhaps from "old maps," or "bad intelligence," which led to the bombing of the Chinese embassy?

In a briefing Shea lied:

Following Serb claims about a NATO attack on the village of

Korisa in Kosovo, NATO has conducted an extensive review

throughout the night of its operations in that area. This

was a legitimate military target.

The Serb claims of an attack involving cluster bombs against

a non-military target are both false. NATO identified Korisa

as a military camp and command post. Military equipment

including an armoured personnel carrier and more than ten

pieces of artillery were observed at this location. The

aircraft observed dug-in military positions at the target

before executing the attack.

NATO cannot confirm the casualty figures given by the

Serb authorities, nor the reasons why civilians were at

this location at the time of the attack.

NATO deeply regrets accidental civilian casualties that were

caused by this attack.

When NATO ADMITS targeting Korisa, how can it say it "regrets accidental civilian casualties that were caused by this attack?" Where are the pictures from NATO that prove its targets were "an armored personnel carrier and more than ten pieces of artillery?" Where are the pictures either before or after the bombs were dropped that prove the existence of the military presence? Criminy, Norman Schwartzkopf showed extensive video at each and every press briefing during the Gulf War; can the Clintagon not even afford VCRs anymore? And if there were "dug-in military positions at the target" - were they KLA or Yugoslav Army positions? We DO have pictures, published in the London Telegraph -- of burning farm tractors. What exactly did NATO think those tractors were? Stealth tanks?

In today's deceiving, Shea emphasized a flurry of diplomatic activity, which, he claimed, showed Milosevic "moving towards" complying with NATO demands:

As you know, tomorrow here in Brussels the EU Foreign

Ministers are going to be meeting and they will be meeting

with the Russian Foreign Minister, Mr. Ivanov, as well as

with Mr. Rugova and with President Dukanovic of Montenegro,

so significant meetings there ...

We are not moving towards Milosevic, Milosevic is moving

towards us. He is now putting out feelers in terms of at the

beginning saying: "I won't accept any international presence

in Kosovo!" and now saying: "Yes, I will!" OK, he may not

want it to have a NATO core but now he is talking about the

UN or the OSCE so he accepts that Kosovo has to be an

international issue, that it is not something that he can or

will be allowed to solve purely in a national framework on

his own terms."

The only problem with Shea's statement is that Milosevic was willing to have a UN peacekeeping force BEFORE the bombing started, and, in fact, the Serb Parliament passed a resolution just before the bombing which rejected NATO troops in Kosovo, but also SUPPORTED the idea of UN forces to monitor a political settlement there.

On April 13 was published an e-mail from a knowledgeable, but unnamed military source, who wrote:

"We've known all along that NATO forces don't need to go in; the Serbs are more than willing to accept UN peacekeeping troops. Why have we therefore specifically insisted on NATO forces? In a little-noted resolution of the Serb Parliament just before the bombing, when that hardly independent body rejected NATO troops in Kosovo, it also supported the idea of U.N. forces to monitor a political settlement there.

"The Yugoslav government is also amenable to the idea of discussing autonomy. Just not with the KLA. Why don't you ask the Tyranny how come we are distancing ourselves from Kosovar Albanian representative Ibrahim Rugova and embracing the KLA? And follow this up with other questions about the KLA's actions, what they're doing, who's financing them, what their goals are. You may be surprised at the response (and slightly embarrassed if the media ever starts answering them for you). Is it really in our interests to crawl into bed with these folks?"

Another excerpt from the New York Times:

"Milosevic and senior Serb officials have met with the ethnic Albanian leader, Ibrahim Rugova, who has long advocated a nonviolent path to real political autonomy and, ultimately, independence. Rugova was regarded by Washington as the most important Kosovar leader until the emergence of the Kosovar Liberation Army as a military and political player about a year ago."

So let's recap. This week there will be a flurry of "diplomatic" meetings. The Kosovar Albanian in the negotiations is Ibrahim Rugova, who was last seen on TV having a meeting with Solobadan Milosevic. Rugova, who was the elected leader of the Kosovo Albanians, before being pushed aside at Rambouillet by the un-elected leader of the KLA terrorist faction, Hashim Thaci, with the help of Aunt Madeline, is apparently a key figure once again, although there are still reports that the now largely decimated and discredited KLA is being resurrected with the help of the USA and a Bosnian Muslim general. All of a sudden, the United Nations has also reappeared and it may be the "international peacekeeping force," acceptable to Milosevic, not NATO, which has caused the destruction of Yugoslavia.

But, Jamie Shea says, "We are not moving towards Milosevic."

As Newt Gingrich said last week, Clinton and his fellow liberals are "afraid to talk about the mess you have made (in Kosovo) and (are) afraid to take responsibility for the things you have done and instead (are) forcing on the rest of us pathetic banalities because you don't the have the courage to look at the world you have created." (Parenthetically, one has to wonder where this vintage Newtian fiestiness has been for the past three years. If he’d held onto it and refused to yield an inch to the House Dem running dogs, he might still be Speaker [of a significantly larger GOP House] today.)

Is NATO under the command of Clinton willing and capable of sacrificing a group of Albanian refugees for the express purpose of inflaming world opinion against the Serbs? Hell, yes. In both incidents of the NATO bombing of Albanian refugees, NATO and Tyranny spokesmen tried to spin the tragedy to blame it on Milosevic and the Serbs. Two months ago the Serb people didn't believe that the America they admired would do what it has already done. Those bombs are almost all American bombs and 90+% of the pilots and planes are American. What has been reported by the establishment media and NATO spinsmen as something of a computer war-game, has devastated a people who once admired America. As Newt says, we are hearing pathetic banalities because a group of government officials who mostly evaded their own military responsibilities in the Vietnam war have precipitated the very humanitarian disaster they claimed they were trying to prevent.

I think Clinton knows he and Madeline Altzheimer badly miscalculated when they thought, as they clearly did on March 24th when the bombing started, that Milosevic and the Serbs would just give up after a couple of days of high-tech bombing. They didn't seem to understand that Serbs "can no longer be Serbs without Kosovo." If NATO invades with forces of hundreds of thousands of men, the Serbs know they will eventually overcome them - but not before the NATO forces experience large losses of men.

What is significant to me is that a nation of freedom loving Christians, who loved America a couple of months ago, now have such distrust and so little belief in Americans that they believe we have become a carbon copy of Nazi Germany, when the German people allowed their leader to kill millions, and allowed the Croat, Slovene and Bosnian Nazis to slaughter one in seven Serbs from 1941-45. They are convinced that America plans to kill all Serbs - and it is a conviction that has come about from their own personal experiences, not from some government propaganda.

For the umpteenth time, character DOES count - not only in the leader of a nation, but in the nation itself. And the character of America, in the eyes of millions throughout the world, is being looked at very differently today than it was before March 24, 1999.

May 19, 1999

One of the rewards that goes with writing any sort column is that, over a period of time, at some point I probably will offend everyone out there. And no surer way of doing that exists than to puncture the mythologies known collectively as the conventional "wisdom."

To wit:

"As I read your article I sensed a tone in it that quite frankly shocked me: You would support President Milosevic and the Serbs and their right to punish the Kosovo's [sic]? You must hate Clinton so bad that you would actually support the Serbs? Clinton is an evil leader but so is Milosevic! I have believed all along that we should have not gotten into this war and I really believe that Clinton is trying to save his presidency. He does not give a hoot about this country. He will do whatever it takes to make history. What he doesn't already realize is that he has made history with his Impeachment trial!

"Over in the Balkans, it's a civil war. We had no business getting involved there except for humanitarian reasons and also to try an negotiate peace in the region. True, the Muslims have caused a lot of problems for the Serbs over the years. But that doesn't mean that the Serbs are without fault: and in a big way! If Milosevic cares only about removing the Muslims he should do so by putting his captives in stockades ... but his troops should not be allowed to rape and torture the Kosovo's [sic] which we ALL know he is doing. Remember: Two wrongs don't make a right!

"Do we get involved? Yes ... by providing arms to the Kosovos [sic] so they can defend themselves ... and providing humanitarian resources to them if necessary ... AND THAT'S ALL!!! Let these people solve their own problems!"

This person is obviously very confused, or perhaps just unwilling to completely discount the propaganda of the Clintonoid press. He acknowledges that Mr. Bill is scum, and that the U.S. should have remained uninvolved in the roiling Balkan blood feuds, but can’t disengage himself of the unsubstantiated party-line doctrine that Milosevic is an "evil leader" bent on "raping and torturing" innocent Kosovar Albanians. Not surprisingly, this leads him to a conclusion – arming the KLA – that is almost as bad as Clinton’s contemplated NATO invasion.

Another respondent worried that I believe too much in the "reliability of certain sources," especially as it related to two recently mentioned stories:

1. Claims that the refugees were paid actors that were instructed to walk in a certain formation, so as to give the impression of being great in numbers. Certainly not outside the realm of possibility for a press that is not above rigging GMC trucks with dynamite to "prove" that they are vulnerable to explosion on side impacts, or setting off dynamite in mountain streams to cause all the fish to fall to the bottom, stunned, to "prove" that said fish population is plummeting and merits the species "endangered" status, and so on. Certainly the media is amplifying the actual refugee numbers.
2. Warnings about a planned massacre by NATO troops, which did occur after all.

"I think that one cannot discount the possibility that the Serb police did indeed manufacture it, as NATO claims, and knowing what NATO's line was going to be, started spreading these rumors so as to be able to turn around and say "we told you it would happen".

"I don't believe this is what happened. Here at work, I am telling my colleagues the other side of the story, protesting "The Australian"'s front page headline "The Face of Human Shields", even before the investigation into the incident is complete. But the fact that you were warned about it, does not in itself prove much….

I would very much like to get some evidence of the magnitude of the killings in Krajina. I have often spoken about them, because I remember reading about them at the time. But now I am being challenged to produce hard evidence all the time. When it's my word against CNN's, most Australians will believe the latter."

A word of advice: all the evidence in the world cannot overcome effective spin. The whole point of Clinton-style propaganda is not to prove his point, or disprove yours, but to discredit any and all sources that aren’t in bed with him. Thus, CNN remains an "authoritative" news source even though their bias is demonstrable and their credibility non-existent, while the information provided by the alternative media, documented and voluminous, is casually discounted because "they’re all a bunch of right-wing extremists." The truth, in other words, is not, by itself, enough. It must be propelled by counter-spin, and with Clinton still occupying the office he long ago forfeited rights to, that’s a nearly insurmountable task.

But what the hey, I’ve got some rare-as-hen’s-nipples spare time. So I’ll indulge the critics and the squeamish:

Do I REALLY "support Milosevic and the Serbs and their 'right' to punish the Kosovars" because I hate Clinton?

Well, actually, no. First, I don't hate anyone, not even the ones it is politically correct to hate in this situation - the Serbs. While I have been told endlessly over the months about how terrible Milosevic is – and, as a former communist who chameleoned himself into a nationalist to preserve and further his political ambitions, he strikes me as being rather Clinton-like more than anything else – frankly, I have not seen proof that he has done all the heinous things people tell me he has done. Anger and resentment towards Milosevic ranges from complaints that he has "ethnically cleansed" the Albanians and other nationalities in the former Yugoslavia, to counter-complaints that he has sat back and done nothing while militant minorities in Yugoslavia destroyed the country. Yet, for the record, as of 1997 Yugoslavia had experienced an INCREASE in the percentage of Albanians living in the country – from 8% in 1984 to 14% in 1997. THIS is "ethnic cleansing" of Albanians?

Being intractably logical, I just don't think both charges can be true. And, when I check unemotional data sources, such as the World Almanac, I find that the groups Milosevic has been accused of "ethnically cleansing" have GROWN in power and actual numbers (the Albanians, for instance) while the Serbs appear to have LOST power and numbers. Where are the "ethnically pure" pockets in the Balkans? Well, Albania it the most ethnically pure - with 95% of its population Albanian, since it got rid of its Greek minority just two years ago. Of the breakaway Yugoslav states, the latest Almanac, for 1998, shows:

Croatia to be 78% Croatian and 12% Serb (the Serbs were 18% of Croatia before the 1995 ethnic cleansing by Tudjman and NATO bombing, when Serbs were driven out of Krajina and a reported 20,000 killed who didn't move fast enough. In 1984, before Tito died and the break-up began, Croats were 20% of Yugoslavia’s population

Bosnia-Herzegovina to be 40% Serb, 38% Muslim, 22% Croat. In 1984, Yugoslavia consisted of Serbs - 36% of the population, Croats - 20%, Bosnian Muslims - 9%, Slovenes -8%, Macedonians- 6%, Albanians - 8%, Montenegrin Serbs- 3%, and Hungarian- 2%.

Slovenia to be 91% Slovene and 3% Croat and 95% Roman Catholic. In 1984, Slovenes made up only

8% of Yugoslavia

Macedonia to be 65% Macedonian and 22% Albanian. In 1984, Macedonians made up 6% of

Yugoslavia's population, and Albanians made up 8% of the population of Yugoslavia

.

The two remaining independent Republics of Serbia and Montenegro, which now make up a Yugoslavia

that has about 40% of the land for the former Yugoslavia, and over half the population, according to the

1998 World Almanac, is 63% Serb, 14% Albanian and 6% Montenegrin with the remaining 17% of the

population divided up between 23 other ethnic groups (Greeks, Hungarians, Romanians, Gypsies, etc.)

So, it would appear based on the numbers, whatever Milosevic can be accused of - ethnic cleansing is really not one of them. He's got the only truly ethnically "diverse" state left of the former Yugoslavia. The breakaway republics, however, and Albania are ethnically pretty much ethnically cleansed of Serbs. Note, however, that while the former Yugoslavia was only 8% Albanian, the now existing Yugoslavia was 14% Albanian - with no Albanians listed in the breakaway republics of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina.

One respondent's solution, which apparently the Clinton Tyranny shares, along with CNN, is the arming of the Kosovar Albanians. Well, until recently, they WERE armed. What upset everyone and precipitated the NATO bombing was that nasty Milosevic's move to disarm them. Yugoslav spokesmen - and this is verified by that trusty little World Almanac - claim there actually were only something like 800,000 Albanians who were citizens of Kosovo before the huge influx of illegal aliens following the disintegration of the communist regime in Albania a few years ago. However, the Alliance is determined that 1,800,000 Albanians are going to live in Kosovo because that's the number they say were there before they started bombing and so many of them started leaving. Did Milosevic and his army drive them out, or did the bombing drive them out? The answer to that seems to depend on who you are talking to.

And, that brings us to the second story…

Do I REALLY believe that that rot about refugee "actors" and NATO planning to bomb a refugee camp with Yugoslav type airplanes, painted with Yugoslav colors and insignia?

Not until it happens, and it hasn't happened – yet. But then I don’t really think Clinton would need a ruse that elaborate.

The bombs that were dropped on Albanians camped in a parking lot in Korisa clearly did not fit that story - although they were bombed. NATO spinster Jamie Shea claimed that Korisa was a "military target" and he "didn't know what those Albanians were doing there" but darkly suggested that the "evil" Serbs had forced them to camp there because they "knew" NATO probably would bomb the place and had "forced" them to be "human shields" for the "military installation."

I have two small problems with that. First, although most of the 79 Albanians killed were so blown to pieces by the bombs that their body parts cannot be identified, 17 of the bodies were sufficiently intact that they were identified. And, guess what? All of the children identified were "born in the village of Korisa, Municipality of Prizren" and most of the identifiable adults were "born in the village of Korisa, Municipality of Prizren." They were in the village of Korisa because that was their HOME. They had come down from the mountains, where they were not finding very much to eat, because the Serbs told them it was OK. Apparently the only Serbs killed were a couple of policemen. No Serb soldiers were there to kill.

Second, where's the evidence of blown up military targets that should have been there? Why would Jamie Shea say he "didn't know what they (the Albanians) were doing there?" Because he thinks ALL the Albanians should have left by now. That’s what the Clinton script calls for – a TOTAL exodus of Kosovar Albanians at Serb gunpoint. They’re not SUPPOSED to return until NATO can escort them back before grateful, cheering, sobbing, flower-showering crowds chanting Mr. Bill’s name – the lousy ingrates. Yet, Shea says, they are "not targeting" civilians.

In Monday's NATO press conference, the CNN reporter asked: "Given where this crisis is at now, and given all that would have to be done to return all of the refugees to their homes, can that be done before winter sets in?"

Jamie Shea's windy response was: "We saw in the past in October, when many of them were internally displaced, they went back very quickly as soon as we had for a while a cease-fire and started to rebuild. Obviously they are going to need help from the international community particularly in terms of winterization for their homes so that they can get through the winter but as I say, they are motivated and they live in a society with an enormous tradition of mutual help and assistance and so yes, I would expect that once the circumstances are right you'll see them returning very quickly indeed. The fact that most of them want to stay in the area rather than be evacuated to other countries shows just how keen they are to get home.

"They will go back as soon as the air campaign has produced the results and the international security presence is there but they won't go home before the international security presence is there, that is clear, so the international community will have to ensure that we deploy those troops very quickly indeed to create that environment of safety but once that is there I expect they will start going back in their thousands particularly as they are very much in the region and therefore that transport could take place quickly. "

Huh? First, the residents of Korisa had stayed close to their village and, when there was a lull in the ground war between the KLA and the Yugoslav army, they went home to their village, based evidently solely on the assurance of the Serbs that all was well on the ground - only to be killed by NATO bombs. Shea ADMITS that as soon as there was a cease-fire in October, those hiding in the hills went home. They left again when the bombing started. Many of them - both Albanians and Serbs - fled Kosovo altogether.

What Shea is saying in his deliberately convoluted way is that those Albanians in Korisa SHOULD HAVE LEFT so NATO could bomb the Serbs. It's not NATO's fault that they are dead. It's their OWN fault. They were supposed to leave so this bombing campaign that is "not targeting" civilians and is designed to PREVENT a mass exodus of Kosovar Albanians could kill only Serbs.

So, dear reader, never fear. With all due acknowledgement to Rush Limbaugh, I am a, if not "the," truth detector. And with all due acknowledgement to the late Jack Webb, I deal with "just the fact.s." One side says the Croatians DIDN'T drive the Serbs out of Croatia in 1995, and kill 20,000 (although 3 Croatian generals were recently indicted at the Hague for it), and the other side said they did, too. Who to believe? Check the demographics in the World Almanac - and it says 6% of over 5 million people are no longer there - the Serbs. That's 300,000 Serbs who disappeared out of Croatia from 1995 to 1997.

How come THAT didn't bother CNN and Jamie Shea?

May 20, 1999

Watching CNN these days is like watching professional wrestling; you know what the heels are going to say and do before they say and do it.

Numerous reports from Macedonian, Russian, Yugoslav and Greek sources warn that the public's sagging interest in supporting the senseless bombing will shortly be beefed up with some kind of "burning the Reichstag" propaganda ploy. Of course, Clintonoid hawks were much incensed when it came out that Christiane Amanpour was already in place in Albania with three camera crews to create the hoped for public outrage.

So, guess what? Right on schedule we have pictures, no less, taken by an Albanian who says they "prove" a massacre in Izbica in the Drenica Valley of Kosovo. Jamie Shea, NATO spewer, went to great lengths to try to convince the media that pictures he had "proved" that there had been a "massacre" at Izbica. What we TV viewers could see were presumed bodies on the ground and an voiceover of Christiane Amanpour pumping Albanian refugees to tell her about the atrocities they had seen.

Back in 1991-92, when "massacres" were being reported from South Africa, there were reporters who happened to BE in South Africa. One picture which went around the world was a photo of bodies lying on the grass in Johannesburg of blacks who had been killed, it was reported, by the evil white police of the F.W. DeKlerk government. The picture showed bodies scattered all over a grassy open place. The only problem was that the "bodies" were not dead bodies. They were sleeping bodies. An enterprising cameraman had taken pictures at midday on the Witwaterrand University Campus in downtown Johannesburg when, as usual, a large number of black students were taking their mid-day nap.

On several occasions reporters were asked to go to squatter camps to see how badly black South Africans were treated by the white regime. Each time they visited a squatter camp - and they really had to search for them in the black townships - they asked questions that Christiane Amanpour NEVER asks in the Albanian refugee camps. One common question was: "Where did you come from?" and another was, "How long have you lived in this area?" In all the squatter camps there was never a single South African citizen. The supposedly "mistreated" South African blacks invariably came from Mozambique, Zaire, one of the black homelands, Zimbabwe. They were illegal aliens who had come to South Africa in hopes of finding a job.

The South African blacks in Soweto lived in 2-3 bedroom brick homes (built by the government) on small lots.

Since the "evil" white government of South Africa was ousted, have you read anything about South Africa? Unlikely. CNN doesn't cover South Africa any more. Of course, the value of the rand has dropped more than 50% and unemployment and crime have skyrocketed - but you never hear about the near anarchy going on there, or the numbers of white farmers being killed almost daily, or that it is pretty much a repeat of what happened to Rhodesia when it was transformed into the "worker’s paradise" of Zimbabwe some fifteen years earlier. Why? Because the media got what it wanted, and can no longer make the story a racial conflict story. The people being killed are mostly blacks killed by blacks or whites killed by blacks - and regardless of how many get killed, that doesn't constitute a "massacre" for CNN purposes. So, they pretend nothing is happening. Hundreds of thousands of blacks have died violent deaths and millions are dying of AIDS, but the Clinton Tyranny has been totally unconcerned.

That all may explain why I am skeptical of CNN's timely "massacre" stories. We were told there was going to be an Albanian massacre, reported by Christiane Amanpour for the express purpose of getting the public worked up so they will support sending ground troops into Yugoslavia. And, sure enough, right on schedule, we have massacres - and we have camera crews claiming to have witnessed them.

However, Jamie Shea was having a hard time with the pictures he was showing trying to prove any real trauma. What I saw was a man standing in the middle of a field waving his arms. Shea said he was explaining that was where the men of the village were killed. Were they KLA? They said no, even though the men were not young men because all the young men, Shea said, had "fled into the hills," leaving their wives and children, apparently, to face the "evil" Serbs alone. The men killed were older men - so we were told.

Now, doesn't that sound like the Albanian men are just great heroes? Christiane tells us the Serbs come in and rape all the women and their husbands just flee to the hills and leave their wives and children to their fate?

Unfortunately, just as Shea was finishing up on his massacre story, the latest strike on Belgrade Thursday night was also reported by Brent Sadler announcing the NATO bombing of a major civilian hospital in Belgrade, destroying its emergency wing and the neurological section of the hospital, killing at least three and, of course, putting the emergency rooms out of commission.

Vladimir Konecni reports a message from a teacher friend of his in Belgrade who wrote:

"Since yesterday, the sky has been burning. Tonight they hit the Dragisa Misovic hospital in Dedinge (in Belgrade) and there are many dead. They hit obstetrics' ward, the operating rooms where cesarean sections were being performed and the nursery where the babies were. Many of the women were cut by flying glass."

Perhaps there was a massacre at Isbica. I certainly could not tell from the pictures I saw. That, we are told, is a "war crime." I guess that what is going on over there actually IS a war if there are war crimes going on. If so, what do the rules of war tell us about countries that bomb hospitals, schools, embassies (they hit the Swedish Ambassador's home last night) and apartment buildings? Is that just computer war games, but killing the men who are the enemy - the KLA and its supporter, THAT's "war crimes" or "atrocities?"

Over 1,300 civilians have been killed by NATO bombs, but Christiane Amanpour tells us that we ought to get upset over 127 men being shot - men who are in villages supporting the KLA? Men who flee to the hills to save their own hides and leave their wives and children to the mercy of killers and rapists (according to Christiane Amanpour)? Isn't there something really wrong with this story, even for CNN and Christiane Amanpour's twisted mind?

Christiane Amanpour said the Izbica situation (and incidentally we as yet don't have dead bodies to prove there was a massacre) was the "worst massacre in Kosovo." Remember, just a few weeks ago CNN was telling us, through Christiane Amanpour, that all the Albanians refugees were saying that they were GLAD that NATO was bombing Kosovo. They want Kosovo destroyed by bombs, which would certainly indicate they are enemies of the Yugoslav people (as well as being curiously unconcerned about what they allegedly consider to be their "home"), but if the Serbs kill the men -or make them work - THAT's an atrocity?

Something about all this just doesn't ring true. Based on NATO reports, most of the cities and villages of Kosovo are either bombed out by NATO or burned out by the Serbs looking for KLA terrorists. This is what the ethnic Albanians wanted? I don't believe it. I think Amanpour is trying to sell us a bill of goods.

The other side of the media-horror story war, put forward by Serbia-info is: "The bestial stupidity was the information about the American cosmic satellites shoots of the mass graves in the village Izbica in Kosovo and Metohija with more than 2.500 Albanians in it. If anyone ever believed in that infantile lie, the brave and risky action of the Radio Television Serbia reporters changed their minds. The ‘mass grave’ was the field, plowed one month before the broadcasting of the news. The satellite which could count the corpses under the ground if they existed, was the unbelievable achievement of the science."

It would take a tremendous level of gullibility to believe, at this point, that our satellites could, as Serbia-info observes, "count the bodies underground" when we are told that our bombing of embassies, hospitals, schools, Albanian refugees, etc., was the result of bad intelligence, mistakes, or "accidents."

For all this incredible disinformation, what is undoubtedly true is that the bombing of Yugoslavia has boosted the number of people watching, listening to and reading the news. It is also true that many Americans are getting burned out by the horror of it and can no longer watch it because they are so ashamed of what America is doing (A standard Clinton tactic, BTW. Never do wrong in anything short of gluttonous excess; it’ll overwhelm people’s sensibilities and cause them to throw up their hands in resigned surrender rather than pursue Clinton and his accomplices, hold them fully accountable, and fight through the storms of slime that will inevitably be hurled at them). That has caused a drop in the number of people watching, listening to and reading the news. The Zogby poll also shows a sharp drop in the number of people in America who are supportive of Clinton's war and the stock markets posted sharp drops overnight.

Clinton expected the Americans to follow him and support him if he went to war, and just forget about impeachment and his treasonous behavior in trading nuclear secrets and super-computers for Chinese campaign contributions. But, the polls are showing a sharp decline in voter support for Clinton.

Expect a sudden breakthrough for diplomacy over bombing – or a sharp escalation in the scope and breadth of hostilities – in the near future.

May 24, 1999

In what certainly appears to be a desperate attempt to stop the disintegration of the Alliance which is attacking Yugoslavia, Bill Clinton took the odd step of writing a letter to the editor of the New York Times.

He begins his letter with an interesting admission:

We are in Kosovo with our allies to stand for a Europe,

within our reach for the first time, that is peaceful,

undivided and free. And we are there to stand against the

greatest remaining threat to that vision: instability in the

Balkans, fueled by a vicious campaign of ethnic cleansing."

Re-writing Balkan history, not only of this century but of past centuries, Clinton wrote:

`The problem is not simply ethnic hatred, or even ethnic

conflict. The people of the former Yugoslavia have lived

together for centuries with greater and lesser degrees of

conflict, but not the constant "cleansing" of peoples from

their land. Had they experienced nothing but that, their

nations would be homogenous today, not endlessly diverse.

The Sickster needs to spend a few hours at the Holocaust Museum and ask to see the figures on the Nazi genocide during World War II, when there was a concerted effort by the Croats, Albanians, Bosnian and other Nazis in the area to come up with the same kind of "final solution" for Serbs that was going on for Jews. The killing of Serbs was second only in number to the killing of Polish Jews. And that was the third such attempt in the 20th Century to ethnically cleanse the Serbs out of them own land.

In his ongoing effort to blame Slobodan Milosevic for the current situation, he said:

The intolerable conditions the region finds itself in today

are the result of a decade long campaign by Slobodan

Milosevic to build a greater Serbia by singling out whole

peoples for destruction because of their ethnicity and

faith. The brutal methods are familiar now. Spreading hate

in the media. Killing moderate leaders. Arming

paramilitaries and ordering soldiers to conduct planned

campaigns of murder and expulsion. Eradicating the culture,

the heritage, the very record of the presence of his

victims. Refugees are not a byproduct of the fighting he has

initiated; the fighting is designed to create refugees. We

are haunted by the images of people driven from their homes,

pushing the elderly in wheelbarrows, telling stories of

relatives murdered.

Sounds like those Serbs are really terrible folks, if all that is true. A greater Serbia? Let's go back to 1985, when the Croat communist dictator, Tito, died. Yugoslavia was united at that point. The largest ethnic group, 36%, were Serbs. Going back ten years, we find that Yugoslavia had a population of 22,826,000 made up of the following ethnic groups:

Serbs - 36% or 8,212,360

Croats - 20% or 4,565,200

Bosnian Muslims - 9% - 2,054,340

Slovenes - 8% - 1,826,080

Macedonians - 6% - 1,369,560

Albanians- 8% - 1,826,080

Montenegran Serbs 3% - 684,780

Hungarians - 2% - 456,520

Then in 1991, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina wanted to secede from the Yugoslav union, just like eleven Southern States in 1861 wanted to secede from the American union. The Germans, who are traditional friends of the Slovenes and Croats (going back to them all being part of Hitler's Axis powers), recognized Slovenia and Croatia on December 19th. On December 31st, 1991 Belgrade and the Republic of Serbia accepted a peace plan proposed by Cyrus Vance. At this point, 18% of the people of Croatia's 4,763,000 people, or 857,340, were Serbs.

On February 21, 1992, the UN Security Council approved a peace-keeping force for Croatia, which would enforce the truce then in effect and protect the minority Serbs living in Croatia. Slobodan Milosevic, then president of Serbia, welcomed the UN decision and said it marked the end of the Civil war.

However, by 1995, Bill Clinton had been in office for a couple of years and, instead of protecting the minority Serbs living in Croatia, American bombers BOMBED the Serbs and helped the Croats drive over 300,000 Serbs from their homes in the Krajina area of Croatia - where many of their families had lived for centuries. Croatia by 1997 showed a population of 5,026,995. Had the Serbs remained 18% of the population, they would have been 904,859. Instead, they were by then only 12% of the population - which is 603,239 people. and that has dropped since 1997, since, contrary to UN promises, the Serbs have not been given their homes and properties back.

Did Clinton mention any of this in his letter? No. He said:

We saw this for the first time in Croatia and in Bosnia. The

international community responded at first with a studied

neutrality that equated victims with aggressors; it followed

with diplomacy and the deployment of unarmed peacekeepers

with the mandate, but not the means, to protect civilians.

By the time NATO acted, 250,000 people were dead, more than

two million displaced, and many have still not returned.

People will look back on Kosovo and say that this time,

because we acted soon and forcefully enough, more lives were

saved and the refugees all came home. The Balkan conflict

that began 10 years ago in Kosovo will have ended in Kosovo.

We cannot respond to such tragedies everywhere, but when

ethnic conflict turns into ethnic cleansing where we can

make a difference, we must try, and that is clearly the case

in Kosovo. Had we faltered, the result would have been a

moral and strategic disaster. The Kosovars would have become

a people without a homeland, living in difficult conditions

in some of the poorest countries in Europe, overwhelming new

democracies. The Balkan conflict would have continued

indefinitely, posing a risk of a wider war and of continuing

tensions with Russia. NATO itself would have been

discredited for failing to defend the very values that give

it meaning. Those who say Kosovo is too small to be of great

importance forget these simple facts.

The Kosovars would become a people without a homeland? Just how many of those "Kosovars" actually are legal residents of Yugoslavia? In 1985 the ENTIRE ETHNIC ALBANIAN population of 1,826,000, in a nation with 22,826,000 people, lived in the entire 98,766 square miles of land. Now, we are told, there are 1,800,000 ethnic Albanians who are citizens of Kosovo - a small state of only 4,203 square miles of territory, who must be allowed back into Kosovo, or NATO will continue to bomb Yugoslavia to hell?

Four states have declared their independence - and one of those states – Macedonia – had a 22% Albanian population before the bombing started - consisting of about 465,000 ethnic Albanians. That would indicate that there were more Albanians in tiny Kosovo, 4,203 square miles, and Macedonia, 9,781 square miles, than in all of Albania.

Clinton went on to say:

When the violence in Kosovo began in early 1998, we

exhausted every diplomatic avenue for a settlement. Last

October, we convinced Mr. Milosevic that he should withdraw

some forces from Kosovo and allow an unarmed international

presence. That is the solution advocates of compromise

propose today. But it failed last fall. Mr. Milosevic broke

his promises, poured more troops into Kosovo, poised for an

offensive he had been planning for months. When it began, we

had to act.

Milosevic broke HIS promises? What, pray tell, happened to the United Nations promise that, if he agreed to a United Nations force in Croatia, that the Serb minority would be protected? Were they protected? Bleep no. There's over a million Serb refugees in Yugoslavia today from Croatia and Bosnia Hercegovina.

Mr. Milosevic's strategy has been to outlast us by dividing

the alliance. He has failed. Instead of disunity in

Brussels, there are growing signs of disaffection in

Belgrade: Serbian soldiers abandoning their posts, Serbian

civilians protesting the policies of their leader, young men

avoiding conscription, prominent Serbs calling on Mr.

Milosevic to accept NATO's conditions. Meanwhile, our air

campaign has destroyed or damaged one-third of Serbia's

armored vehicles in Kosovo, half its artillery, most of its

ability to produce ammunition, all its capacity to refine

fuel and done enormous damage to other sectors of its

economy. Though he has driven hundreds of thousands of

Kosovar Albanians from their homes, Mr. Milosevic has not

eliminated the Kosovar Liberation Army. Indeed, its ranks

are swelling, and it has begun to go on the offensive

against Serb forces hunkered down to hide from air strikes.

Really? The KLA has been reborn and is now a "fearsome army?" So, how come you bombed their only base inside Kosovo that the Serbs had not destroyed? It has been reported that US intelligence personnel had been inside that building, presumably helping to revitalize the group, which is part of the terrorist, drug-

pushing clansmen that terrorize northern Albania. Was that simply total incompetence on the part of NATO - or something else?

If the flattening Yugoslavia is actually "working," why would the President of the United States, the Ruler of the world, feel it necessary to try to convince skeptical readers? Shouldn't it be obvious if it is working?

Second, this strategy has broad and deep support in the

alliance, and allows us to meet our objectives. While there

may be differences in domestic circumstances, cultural ties

to the Balkans and ideas on tactics, there is no question

about our unity on goals and our will to prevail. I have

worked hard to shape our present consensus; 60 days into the

air campaign, NATO is more unified on Kosovo than it was at

the beginning.

"NATO is more unified" now on Kosovo than it was at the beginning? Why, then, is there is a flat "NO GROUND TROOPS" groundswell throughout the alliance and demands that the bombing be stopped by Italy?

Third, this strategy gives us the best opportunity to meet

our goals in a way that strengthens, not weakens, our

fundamental interest in a long-term, positive relationship

with Russia. Russia is now helping to work out a way for

Belgrade to meet our conditions. Russian troops should

participate in the force that will keep the peace in Kosovo,

turning a source of tension into an opportunity for

cooperation, like our joint effort in Bosnia. Finally, we

must remember that the reversal of ethnic cleansing in

Kosovo is not sufficient to end ethnic conflict in the

Balkans and establish lasting stability. The European Union

and the United States must do for southeastern Europe what

we did for Western Europe after World War II and for Central

Europe after the cold war. Freedom, respect for minority

rights, and prosperity are powerful forces for progress.

They give people goals to work for; they elevate hope over

fear and tomorrow over yesterday.

We can do that by rebuilding struggling economies,

encouraging trade and investment and helping the nations of

the region join NATO and the European Union.

Who, in the Balkans, after the senseless bombing by mostly American airplanes, is going to believe that America has THEIR interests at heart? As the bombing continues, and the pictures of mothers in bombed hospitals cradling their dismembered newborns while nursing their wounds, are e-mailed around the world, who believes that America has any "humanitarian" interests in the Balkans? "The U.S. has become the world's bully," Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) said last week. "We should not encourage the senseless and immoral NATO aggression against Serbia."

Already, the region's democracies are responding to

the pull of integration by sticking with their reforms, taking

in refugees and supporting NATO's campaign. A democratic Serbia

that respects the rights of its people and its neighbors can and

should join them. If it does, we will help to restore it to its

rightful place as a European state in the Balkans, not a

balkanized state at the periphery of Europe.

The Balkans are not fated to be the heart of European darkness,

a region of bombed mosques, men and boys shot in the back, young

women raped, all traces of group and individual history

rewritten or erased. Just as leaders took their people down that

road, leaders must take them back to a better tomorrow.

Ultimately, we and our allies can help make this happen, if we

stick with NATO's campaign and follow through with a strategy to

insure that the forces pulling southeastern Europe together are

stronger than the forces tearing it apart.

William Jefferson Clinton

Interesting that Clinton mentions "bombed mosques" but not "bombed churches and monasteries" hit by NATO bombs, (see: http://www.yuheritage.com/ for pictures of damage by NATO Bombs on ancient churches and church art) or the hundreds of Serb Orthodox churches and monasteries destroyed over the last 30-40 years by hostile Muslim mobs. And, he doesn't mention the hundreds of Serbs shot in the back, or the Serb women raped by roving KLA terrorists who were TOLD to do just that, to drive the Serbs out of Kosovo. And, he fails to mention that fact that Justice Louise Arbour at the War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague has announced: "The U.N.'s war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has jurisdiction over NATO actions in the Balkan bombing campaign.." Nor did he mention that his Tyranny’s reaction to the very idea of the United States being brought before the War Crimes Tribunal for its "humanitarian" war was basically: "They wouldn't DARE!" And if they do, will Clinton order the carpet-bombing of the Hague and other Dutch cities?

Lester Munson, spokesman for the International Relations Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, said: "You're more likely to see the U.N. building dismantled brick-by-brick and thrown into the Atlantic than to see NATO pilots go before a UN tribunal....Justice Arbour's comments are ludicrous."

Ludicrous? Not to a people whose nation is being destroyed by bombs dropped by a nation from across the ocean. Somehow, I don't think it is the pilots of those airplanes that Judge Armour would be looking for. I suspect it is letter-writer Bill Clinton who would have to explain to the court how his "humanitarian" bombing is any different from Saddam Hussein's rape of Kuwait.

May 25, 1999

Each day I try to analyze and make sense of the day's news. And it's getting harder with every passing day.

First, this is the 63rd day that "Bomber Bill" Clinton has sent American warplanes over Yugoslavia to, he says, bomb "military targets." A "military target" to Bill Clinton, like the word "sex" and the word "is" has been redefined. It no longer means a military target. In Clintonspeak it now is the water and electrical supply for a nation's civilians.

Does Clinton realize that the Yugoslav Army Command is in underground bunkers which are not dependent upon the civilian electrical and water system? Of course he does. He merely has redefined "military target" so that the civilians killed, 30% of whom are babies and children, are now "military targets."

The War Powers Act, post-Vietnam legislation that was the product of rampaging, triumphal left-wing Democrats like Mr. Bill, points out that:

"It is the purpose of this chapter to fulfill the intent of the framers of the Constitution of the United States and insure that the collective judgment of both the Congress and the President will apply to the introduction of United States armed forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, and to the continued use of such forces in hostilities or in such situations.

* (b) Congressional legislative power under necessary and proper clause

Under article I, section 8, of the Constitution, it is specifically provided that the Congress shall have the power to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution, not only its own powers but also all other powers vested by the Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer hereof.

* (c) Presidential executive power as Commander-in-Chief; limitation

The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States armed forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.

Sec. 1542. Consultation; initial and regular consultations

The President in every possible instance shall consult with Congress before introducing United States Armed Forces into hostilities or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, and after every such introduction shall consult regularly with the Congress until United States Armed Forces are no longer engaged in hostilities or have been removed from such situations.

I’m no fan of the War Powers Act. Never have been. It’s a formula for national paralysis in time of imminent crisis. But it is, nevertheless, federal law. And among all the other national and international laws Bill Clinton has broken, the WPA is now about to be called upon by twenty-five members of Congress, led by Rep. Tom Campbell (R-CA).

Sec. 1544. Congressional action

* (a) Transmittal of report and referral to congressional committees; joint request for convening Congress

Each report submitted pursuant to section 1543 (a)(1) of this title shall be transmitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the President pro tempore of the Senate on the same calendar day. Each report so transmitted shall be referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate for appropriate action. If, when the report is transmitted, the Congress has adjourned sine die or has adjourned for any period in excess of three calendar days, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate, if they deem it advisable (or if petitioned by at least 30 percent of the membership of their respective Houses) shall jointly request the President to convene Congress in order that it may consider the report and take appropriate action pursuant to this section.

* (b) Termination of use of United States Armed Forces; exceptions; extension period

Within sixty calendar days after a report is submitted or is required to be submitted pursuant to section 1543(a)(1) of this title, whichever is earlier, the President shall terminate any use of United States armed forces with respect to which such report was submitted (or required to be submitted), unless the Congress (1) has declared war or has enacted a specific authorization for such use of United States Armed Forces, (2) has extended by law such sixty-day period, or (3) is physically unable to meet as a result of an armed attack upon the United States. Such sixty-day period shall be extended for not more than an additional thirty days if the President determines and certifies to the Congress in writing that unavoidable military necessity respecting the safety of United States Armed Forces requires the continued use of such armed forces in the course of bringing about a prompt removal of such forces.

(c) Concurrent resolution for removal by President of United States armed forces

Notwithstanding subsection (b) of this section, at any time that United States Armed Forces are engaged in hostilities outside the territory of the United States, its possessions and territories without a declaration of war or specific statutory authorization, such forces shall be removed by the President if the Congress so directs by concurrent resolution.

And if the president DOESN'T remove the forces if the Congress so votes, what then? Well, they might defund the war, as the Democrats did in the Vietnam war when Richard Nixon was President - except the Congress just approved $13 billion for the war they voted not to support a short time before the vote.

The other major news for today is the release of the Cox Report, a 700 page document when clearly shows that Clinton approved the sale of supercomputers to Red China, after KNOWING that they would be very useful to the PLA in making use of nuclear secrets they had in hand from our nuclear weapons labs. According to military experts the secrets would have done them no good - without the super computers Clinton made extraordinary efforts to make available.

In another era, as when the Rosenbergs were found guilty of making secrets available to the Russians, those who compromised American security for personal gain (in Clinton's case, campaign contributions) were executed.

The ChiComms, the Cox Report apparently states, have also shared many of those nuclear secrets with their clients -Iran, Pakistan, etc.

So, today, we wake up in, to coin a phrase, a cowardly new world. The PRC apparently not only has nuclear weapons - probably far more than the 18 long range missiles they admit to, now accurately pointed at American cities, thanks to Clinton's supercomputer deals - but it also has an army about five times larger than the United States Army, and with reservists fully called up, can put as many as 200 MILLION soldiers in the field. Taped telephone conversations indicate that the Presidents of the United States and Red China actually CONSPIRED to cover-up the theft of nuclear weapons secrets.

Meanwhile, the nations of the world who now respect America, six years into Clinton's Tyranny, have dwindled sharply, and we have made enemies out of former friends, such as Yugoslavia. And, to make matters worse, we just bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade - which is the same as bombing China - while demonstrating that our once awesome intelligence capability has become a Keystone cop routine in which we routinely bomb the wrong targets based on inaccurate intelligence. Was that, too, part of a cover-up, or merely another "intelligence blunder?"

It is simply impossible to make any sense out of an America that bombs its friends and protects enemy spies, other than to conclude that we, the people, through our ignorance, sloth, and resultant vulnerability to rank political seduction, have willingly put into power a man of such greed, lust, amorality, and dishonor that he will ultimately be the instrument of our national doom – and most of us are so fat, dumb, and happy that we’ll never realize it until it’s too late.

May 26, 1999

"No one who has not lived for years in a totalitarian land can possibly conceive how difficult it is to escape the dread consequences of a regime's calculated and incessant propaganda," William Shirer wrote in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Germany's state-controlled media - newspapers and radio - in the 1930's had an interesting side effect that seems relevant today. Shirer wrote: "With all newspapers in Germany being told what to publish and how to write the news and editorials, it was inevitable that a deadly conformity would come over the nation's press. Even a people so regimented and so given to accepting authority became bored by the daily newspapers. Circulation declined even for the Nazi dailies."

Does America have a "controlled press?" Of course not! - or so we are told. So, how come when I surf from one small or even metropolitan newspaper to another that I see the same exact wire service stories I saw in all the others? Who is the SOURCE of most of the front page news we are being fed not only in our newspapers, but also on radio and TV news? And, how come more and more people simply have quit listening to, reading or watching the news? Are they bored with the propaganda they are hearing?

In today's papers there is an Associated Press story entitled: "NATO Hits Milosevic Close to Home" which states: "NATO warplanes attacked Slobodan Milosevic's villa and other targets across Yugoslavia on Tuesday. The military alliance also approved a revised plan for an enlarged peacekeeping ground force in Kosovo as soon as Serb troops depart.

"A new wave of refugees - as many as 150,000 - were reported bound for Macedonia, and a U.N. report detailed in graphic fashion "a significant upsurge" in sexual violence against ethnic Albanian women in Kosovo since NATO airstrikes began two months ago.

"The U.N. Population Fund, which sent ‘reproductive health’ kits to Kosovo in April that included "morning after" pills for rape victims, said the report was the first attempt by a United Nations organization to verify the accounts by refugee women."

Where the devil did THIS story come from? Either press releases or press conferences from NATO and the World Population Fund, that's where. Is this real information gathering, or is it simply pushing the agendas of NATO and the World Population Fund? The Population Fund is using the NATO bombing and the resulting humanitarian crisis to get the Albanian Muslim women in the refugee camps to accept an abortion pill. This cynical pill-pushing on hapless refugees when the women are Muslim of course is a clear violation of their religion. Who, do you suppose, is making the money off those pills?

In an incredible exchange yesterday at the NATO briefing, a French reporter asked Jamie Shea about NATO's destruction of civilian electric and water facilities in Yugoslavia which is causing great havoc in hospitals, among other things. The Yugoslavia Minister of Health, Leposava Milicevic announced in a press conference held for the foreign and domestic reporters that due to the day-long disappearance of electricity and water, lives of 9,500 patients in intensive care, 300 prematurely born babies, 2,000 patients suffering from kidney failure who are on dialysis, 400 malignant patients in laser therapy, 1,000 hospital patients on the surgery desks, 30,000 patients with the need for laboratory analyses, 12,000 requiring X-rays, 200 in magnetic resonance treatment and 200 treated with nuclear medicine were endangered in Serbia.

Also, of course, without electricity water purification systems across the country were also wiped out, and 250 district and regional waterworks were disabled, which additionally endangered the health of the population. In fact, that could cause an epidemic. The death rate of premature babies has increased 8% (and the rate of birth of premature babies has increased because of the bombing) Dr. Milicevic said. She announced that 115 medical institutions had been damaged by air raids so far, with some of them having been totally demolished, such as Dragisa Misovic hospital.

"If NATO continues in such a manner, there will be no patients in Serbia left real soon, only healthy and bitter persons who have lost their dearest ones will survive, and than even 150,000 soldiers would not be enough to the aggressor to continue this war," Dr. Milicevic said. The exact number of killed patients and medical workers is not known because the daily bombing does not allow the dead to be dug out of the ruins.

Shea's incredible response to the reporter's question was:

"President Milosevic has got plenty of back-up generators. His armed forces have hundreds of them. He can either use these back-up generators to supply his hospitals, his schools, or he can use them to supply his military. His choice. If he has a big headache over this, then that is exactly what we want him to have and I am not going to make any apology for that.

"Secondly, I don't know if anybody realizes this. It's not often remembered but over 50% of the refugees in Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are under 18 years of age. Children, or at least adolescents. 40% are under 14 years of age. 20,000 are under one year old and at least 100,000 babies have been born since this crisis in March in those refugee camps, without incubators, without electricity, without medical support, without water, without a roof over their heads, with absolutely nothing. And therefore they are still considerably less fortunate than those babies in Belgrade. NATO doesn't wish any harm to any baby but let's make it clear here, the suffering, the real suffering, not the TV images, but the real suffering is in this business overwhelmingly on the side of the Kosovar Albanians who don't have the choice, unfortunately, between an incubator with electricity supplied by President Milosevic or an incubator without electricity. They simply have no incubator because they have been forced out of their homes and into fields."

There are approximately 600,000 Albanian refugees, we are told, most of whom are not in refugee camps. If 50% of them are children, that would mean there are 300,000 adults, not all of them women of child-bearing age. Many of them are men, in fact. Mathematically speaking how could 100,000-200,000 women of possible child bearing age have 100,000 babies in a two month period unless ALL of them were pregnant and ALL of them got pregnant AT THE SAME TIME?

The Albanians do have the highest birth rate in Europe - 2.9% annually. If we generously assume that of the 300,000 adults in those camps there are 200,000 women of child bearing age, that would mean at the most there could have been no more than 400 births in two months time - and of course, not all of them would have needed incubators.

Where did Jamie Shea get a 100,000 baby figure? Was it off the top of his little, pointed, propaganda factory head?

And who is it that has "forced" the Albanians out of their homes? Has anyone noticed, besides me, that every time NATO brags about increasing and intensifying the air strikes that a new batch of Albanians arrive at the borders for the Western nations to take care of? When a few days go by without bombs in Kosovo, the flow of refugees slows to a trickle or stops. Are we all supposed to be too stupid to notice that?

Obviously, the stories we are now hearing are increasingly based on the situation of the Albanian women. What really do THEY want? Are they being manipulated and used by the men - the KLA and Jamie Shea - to make some propaganda points? Would they like to be marched back into a bombed out Kosovo, by armed NATO soldiers? How long had they actually lived in Kosovo? How many had come across the border when Albania's government and economy collapsed? Or, perchance, would they like to have an opportunity for a new kind of life elsewhere - America, South America, Western Europe? Has anyone bothered to ASK the women questions, or, as the article yesterday indicated, were reporters jumping on buses of refugees and yelling, "Is there anyone here who's been raped who speaks English?"

Who's in those camps? Were 100,000 babies REALLY born in them in the last two months? Where did the refugees REALLY originally come from? Kosovo or Albania? Milosevic has stated all Kosovo CITIZENS will be allowed to return. Jamie Shea has said that many of the refugees "had their papers taken" by Serb officials and that "EVERY refugee from Kosovo" will be allowed back. Apparently, that means the hundreds of thousands of illegal Albanians are to be settled in Kosovo - based on what? Their word that they are citizens? Is that the way we we’re going to decide who's a citizen and who's an illegal alien in, say, Texas or California?

May 27, 1999

For the first time since the bombing of Yugoslavia started, the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released yesterday shows the public is rapidly losing confidence in a Clinton that 60-70% approved throughout the Lewinsky scandal and impeachment trial. While in mid-April a majority said they would favor sending in ground troops if the airstrikes were not effective, today a 49% minority would approve sending in ground troops, just as it is announced that Clinton is planning to do just that – bald defiance of the War Powers Act.

After sixty days of military involvement, the War Powers Act REQUIRES the president to obtain the approval of Congress and a group of 25 members of the House of Representatives has filed suit to require Clinton to obey that law. In the Senate yesterday, Bob Smith of New Hampshire attempted to defund Clinton’s War, using the precedent set by Democrats who defunded the Vietnam war. The amendment failed with only about 25% of the vote.

In spite of all that, it was also announced that Clinton is about to send US ground forces into Kosovo, after months of saying he won't and in spite of the requirements of the War Powers Act. How can he do that, besides the fact that he’s Bill Clinton, Man Above the Law?

Probably with new definitions. Something like, HE'S not sending them to war - he's only sending them to NATO and NATO is sending them to war. Will it wash? Probably not. The media's soft peddling the worst of the implications of the Cox report notwithstanding, people are beginning to take the gloves off when referring to their dictator and the stolen nuclear secrets.

But in practical terms, it won’t matter, because Clinton will simply do what he wants anyway and ride out any consequent PR storm. Besides, what can be done to him now? He’s already escaped impeachment, and there’s no stomach on the GOP side to try it again. He really does have carte blanche, and it may be too late for anger, just as it’s years too late to stop him.

Funny how it’s only now, after Sick Willie having proven himself a mass murderer and war criminal on top of everything else, that others – only some of them Americans - are more afraid of an out-of-control, immoral, lying president than they are of Red China having nuclear weapons pointed at American cities – which, of course, wouldn’t have happened without Clinton’s treason. In the eyes of most of the rest of the world, America has lost its moral authority to claim it is "concerned" over humanitarian problems being faced by ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. In a world of horrors inflicted upon millions of innocent children, sick people, mothers in labor, etc., it's hard for many to muster up any outrage over the ChiComms purchasing our nuclear secrets. To some, it seems, buying our nuclear secrets is not bad - but good. They reason that it may keep the AMERICAN evil empire in check.

The first rule of war is to know your enemy. Clinton and Madeleine Unbright started bombing Yugoslavia believing that Slobodan Milosevic would quickly, within less than a week, agree to sign a document approving the military occupation of Yugoslavia. The last time that was tried, the one demanding a signature was Adolf Hitler and his powerful war juggernaut. The Serbs kicked a king off his throne who agreed to sign Hitler's little piece of paper and Bishop Artemije, Bishop of Raska and Prizren from the Decani Monastery in Kosovo reminded Clinton and other leaders meeting in Bonn today:

"The self-proclaimed 'judges of the universe', in their

haughty pride are shocked that Serbia was not defeated after

the first days of bombing campaign (as it was expected).

Therefore they intend to pursue their air raids until the

end, i.e. 'until Milosevic accepts all NATO conditions,

withdraws his army and police from Kosovo and brings back

all refugees.' It is only then, they say, that bombing will

stop. Such unshakable determination means that the war will

last until all Serbs and ethnic Albanians are destroyed or

perhaps until the Balkans is consumed in a large-scale

conflagration. Both United States and NATO are very well

aware that such conditions cannot be fulfilled as long as

the bombing is continued, no matter whether Milosevic were

ready to meet their requests or not.

"Therefore I keep asking the leaders of the West again: Who

will live long enough to enjoy 'the peace and democracy'

which is being delivered to us on the wings of your

tomahawks and smart bombs? Who will be able to survive

living in the environment polluted by the effects of your

bombs? Is this what you are doing and intend to do in future

truly intended to 'protect' Kosovo Albanians and the UCK? Is

it possible that you are determined to protect them to the

last one of them? Do you really intend to end the 20th

century with such a bitter irony and cynicism? Is this the

gate through which Europe has to enter into the third

Millennium? If it is, then what can we expect from such a

future? What kind of happiness, justice, prosperity and

democracy we are going to enjoy? At the end of this century

we must not forget the words of a prophet who said: 'For

they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind'

(Hosea 8:7). Let us think about it as long as there is

time."

Try as they will, and have, to spin the latest scandal, the Clinton White House seems to be determined to sow the wind in Yugoslavia. What will be their reaction when the whirlwinds come, as they will?

May 28, 1999

I wish I could say I can't believe the media blitz over the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic. The real story behind this decision was best expressed by the statement by a Clinton shill that it was hoped that it would bring "more international support for the NATO air strikes."

And that, it appears, is exactly why this NATO puppet "tribunal" rushed the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic. It's a propaganda ploy designed to force wavering NATO partners to get with it in applauding NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia. At least one reporter in Brussels quickly picked up on the propaganda aspects of this sudden indictment:

Antonio Esteves Martins, RTP:. This is not good news for the

peace process that we are on now and I wonder if you have an

explanation for the hurry of getting this indictment now

because the same Tribunal has waited 5 years and so far the

3 Generals that were busy in the ethnic cleansing (of Serbs)

in Krajina, including also the President of Croatia,

President Tudjman, they haven't still got their indictments.

So why in this process when everybody is so busy putting

people together at the table, waiting for Milosevic to say

yes to the 5 conditions or to accept the United Nations

Resolution to make this thing go so quickly because

obviously this is only going to stop or delay the peace

process and obviously we should not forget that so many

people are still inside Kosovo and if there is a resolution

or if there is an acceptance of the 5 points, those people

could be saved?

Jamie Shea: Antonio, Justice Arbour pointed out in her press

conference that under Article 8 of the Tribunal Statute she

has a duty and an obligation to bring indictments once the

necessary materials have been collected. That is her

independent role, we respect that. As Justice Arbour said,

there is never a bad time for justice. It's never too early,

nor too late for International Law to be observed and to be

upheld. That is the position of the Allies as well. Thirdly,

if you are implying, which I don't believe you are, but if

you are implying that there is an incompatibility between a

political solution and justice, I profoundly disagree.

This is not a story that is exactly ancient history. On March 22nd of this year, Raymond Bonner reported:

"Investigators at the international war crimes tribunal in

The Hague, Netherlands, have concluded that the Croatian

army carried out summary executions, indiscriminate shelling

of civilian populations and "ethnic cleansing" during a 1995

assault that was a turning point in the Balkan wars,

according to tribunal documents.

"The investigators have recommended that three Croatian

generals be indicted, and a U.S. official said last week

that the indictments could come within a few weeks.

"The indictments would be the first of Croatian army

officers for actions in the Balkan wars of 1991 to 1995,

which first pitted an independence-seeking Croatia against

rebel Serbs and Serbia proper, and then moved to Bosnia.

"Any indictment of Croatian army generals could prove

politically troublesome for the Clinton administration,

which has a delicate relationship with Croatia, a U.S. ally

with a poor human rights record in preserving the peace in

Bosnia.

"The August 1995 Croatian offensive, which drove some

100,000 Serbs from a large swath of Croatia over four days,

was carried out with the tacit blessing of the United States

by a Croatian army that had been schooled in part by a group

of retired U.S. military officers. Questions remain about

the full extent of U.S. involvement.

"In the course of the three-year investigation into the assault, the United States has failed to

provide critical evidence requested by the tribunal, according to tribunal documents and officials,

adding to suspicion among some there that Washington is uneasy about the investigation.

"Two senior Canadian military officers, for example, who were in

Croatia during the offensive, testified that the assault, which

saw some 3,000 shells rain down on the city of Knin over 48

hours, was indiscriminate and targeted civilians.

"The Pentagon, however, has argued through U.S. lawyers at the

tribunal that the shelling was a legitimate military activity,

according to tribunal documents and officials. And U.S.

officials have repeatedly maintained that they have provided

full cooperation with the tribunal."

However, it is well known that the United States and NATO did NOT provide full cooperation with the tribunal when it came to providing pictures of the ethnic cleansing of Krajina. Clinton himself was clearly a participant in the ethnic cleansing of Serbs from Krajina through providing US military "advisers" (reminiscent of the Vietnam "advisers" a generation ago) to the Croats. Eventually at least a half million Serbs were driven from their homes - and not allowed to return - or killed by the Croats - the same ethnic group who slaughtered most of the 1.2 million Serbs killed in the 1940s Holocaust.

Bonner reported a mere 2 days before Clinton and Company began bombing Yugoslavia:

"In May 1996, for example, the investigators asked the

United States for eight satellite photos taken of specific

grids in the Krajina region of Croatia, where the operation

took place, on specific days during Operation Storm. (i.e.

driving out the Serb population from Krajina.)

"The grids related to the shelling of Knin, the location of

Serb troops -- which might help determine whether it was a

legitimate military target -- as well as the burning and

looting of villages and possible bombing of refugee columns

by the Croatian air force.

"The team got no response, tribunal officials said. Ms.

Arbour said that she could not comment on specific requests

to governments. She also declined to say anything about the

status of the investigation."

So, we learn, the Milosevic "investigation" began in earnest two days before NATO started bombing and in a mere 65 days has produced a full-blown indictment of the leader of the nation they are bombing.

But, you say, isn’t the War Crimes Tribunal an "independent" and just court? Let's let NATO spokesman Jamie Shea answer that:

"NATO countries are those which pushed for this Tribunal to

be established under a UN Security Council Resolution. We

are the countries that overwhelmingly support this Tribunal,

finance this Tribunal. The United States supplies the

President, Canada supplies the Chief Prosecutor and NATO

countries provide many of the other judges and officials of

the Tribunal. We therefore are committed to facilitating its

work." although, as I stress, the Tribunal is an independent

body, it makes its own decisions first and foremost. NATO

has co-operated with the Tribunal, we are in the forefront

of countries supplying it with intelligence and materials to

substantiate its indictments, we will continue to do that

and it is the arrival of a NATO led peacekeeping force, a

peacekeeping force with a NATO core, in Kosovo which will

provide the secure environment so far denied to the Tribunal

to allow it to gather the further evidence that Justice

Arbour referred to in her press conference just a few

moments ago."

So, NATO countries are the ones who cooked up the tribunal, financially support it, and supplies most of the judges and officials - and provided "proof" of Milosevic's war crimes, but carefully covered up the proof requested on the Croat generals? Now, why would NATO do that?

Well, for one, there is a small matter before the War Crimes Tribunal which was established by NATO countries in which Yugoslavia charges the United States, and Bill Clinton, with war crimes in bombing hospitals, trains, schools, embassies, etc. Milosevic was charged with war crimes based on 340 deaths, according to CNN reports. So far, 1,200 Yugoslav civilians have been killed by NATO targeting Yugoslav television, in which announcers, make-up personnel, etc. were killed. Journalists were killed in the "accidental" bombing of the ChiComm embassy, and many civilians were killed in the bombing of two refugee groups, a bridge carrying a civilian train and the recent bombing of a hospital in Belgrade.

A report in the National Post (Canada) on Saturday, May 22, 1999, stated:

A suggestion by Justice Louise Arbour that he UN's war

crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has jurisdiction

over NATO's actions in the Balkan bombing campaign and could

hold the alliance responsible for attacks that have killed

civilians was greeted with disbelief and amazement by the

spokesman for the U.S. House of Representatives.

"You're more likely to see the UN building dismantled

brick-by-brick and thrown into the Atlantic than to see NATO

pilots go before a UN tribunal," said Lester Munson of the

International Relations Committee. He called Judge Arbour's

comments 'ludicrous.'

But Judge Arbour, the tribunal's chief prosecutor, generally

won praise in Canada for the comments she made Thursday in

Fredericton.

Now, let's see what we have here. We have a "War Crimes Tribunal" financed and staffed by NATO nations, which uses evidence from NATO countries, primarily the United States, to investigate the leaders of the nations NATO is bombing and which does NOT get requested evidence from the United States when investigating war crimes and ethnic cleansing committed by Nazi friends and clients of the United States and, therefore cannot on its OWN find the "evidence" of war crimes or ethnic cleansing when the victims happen to be Serbs. And Jamie Shea says this tribunal is "independent?" That's about as accurate as his ridiculous statement that the approximately 100,000-200,000 ethnic Albanian women from Kosovo of child-bearing age have given birth to 100,000 babies in refugee camps in the last two months since NATO began bombing.

And, surprise, surprise! - this rushed indictment came about just as Victor Chernomyrdin was to meet in Belgrade with Milosevic to hopefully finalize a peace agreement.

It's becoming increasingly obvious, as none other than Mikhail Gorbachev said yesterday in Sydney, Australia, that the reason why peace is being blocked in Kosovo is because, "The White House wants victory pure and simple, and that's why things are getting nowhere."

Three fourths of the world's military might is being used against a piddling backwater nation the size of the state of Kentucky with a population of 11 million people, of which only about 6,930,000 are Serbs - which, it appears, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair have every intention of totally annihilating.

Is this going to be the much-pursued "legacy" of the Bill Clinton era of government? Another six million Europeans swept off its map in some mad politician's Final Solution? And will the American legislative body, Congress, allow it, as did the Reichstag, or stop it by demanding the enforcement of the War Powers Act?

Have we in America become what we abhorred and fought in World War II?

June 1, 1999

"Without a declaration of war, without the support of the majority of the American people, without a clear objective or exit strategy, Bill Clinton has announced that the first bombing raid on a European Country, the Republic of Yugoslavia….Clinton said in the announcement of the raids: 'We and our allies have taken this action only after extensive and repeated efforts to obtain a peaceful solution to the crisis in Kosovo.' He then blamed Milosevic for the 'terrible wars' in Bosnia, and Croatia. 'He has rejected the balanced and fair peace accords.'"

So was written and quoted more than two months ago. Of course, at the time he said that, the press did not have a copy of the Rambouillet (French for "railroaded") accord. It was neither balanced nor fair. It was a document which was in effect a demand for unconditional surrender of the Serbs, occupation of their ENTIRE country, without paying for anything, and, after 3 years, the Albanians then in Kosovo, including at least 500,000 illegal aliens, could simply vote to secede from Yugoslavia - taking the rich resources of Kosovo into a "Greater Albania."

"The Serb position on this, of course, is that this is comparable to what happened to Yugoslavia in 1941 after Italy invaded Greece from bases in Albania…The Serbs are reacting to the Clinton bombing very much as they reacted to the bombing by Adolph Hitler - although Bill Clinton is trying to convince the American people, and the world, that he is bombing Belgrade and Pristina in the quest for ‘peace’ in the region."

So, here we are, on June 1st, 67 days of bombing later and what does the war look like? Do we have peace in the region? Are you kidding? In fact, there appears to be a growing conviction that NATO will invade Yugoslavia - looking for "peace."

Increasingly, Clinton and others compare his adventurism in Yugoslavia with Desert Storm. How DOES the current NATO bombing campaign compare with Desert Storm? Let’s see….

First, President George Bush had sought and received IN ADVANCE OF HOSTILITIES the needed votes in Congress AND the United Nations to allow him to go forward with the effort to drive Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Clinton does not have that vote from Congress and never even made a pretense of seeking it. He is now in total violation of the War Powers Act.

Second, 38 days of bombing raids, prior to the ground war, were launched against the Iraqi Army in and around Kuwait in preparation for Desert Storm. Targets were limited to those genuinely military in nature, and Coalition forces bent over backwards to avoid collateral damage and civilian casualties. We have completed 67 days of bombing in Yugoslavia, and have been deliberately massacring Serb and Albanian civilians alike from Day 1.

Third, after the 38-day air campaign, the ground offensive began in the desert which lasted 100 hours. Iraqi troops, tired, hungry and war-weary from six months of economic blockade and 38 days of bombing, surrendered by the thousands. In Yugoslavia, after 67 days, no ground offensive has begun in the mountainous, tree covered region. While NATO keeps hopefully suggesting that Yugoslav troops are about to do what the Iraqis did - cave-in - there is actually no sign that is the case. In fact, there appears to be some real anticipation to get the ground troops IN Yugoslavia - where the Yugoslavs know the land so well.

As was pointed out in March, Yugoslavia is a very different terrain that that of Iraq. Almost 80% of Yugoslavia is rough hill and mountain areas. Their up-to-date air defenses include mobile systems which

can be easily hidden in the hills which the Serbs know well. That is where many Serbs fled to in World War II and, in the end, weakened Hitler by pinning down several divisions of the Wermacht which he had planned to use elsewhere. In Desert Storm the targets were out in the open on flat desert, treeless land and still Saddam Hussein survived 38 days of aerial pounding, and soon rebuilt his weapons capability. We also deployed a fighting force to Desert Storm of nearly 500,000 soldiers to re-take Kuwait on the ground from the occupying Iraq army. The goal was to re-take Kuwait, which we did.

A fighting force of 500,000 was needed to re-take Kuwait - a conquest of the Iraqi army - not their homeland. The latest suggested figure for a ground attack force to take Yugoslavia by NATO is 90,000. Does anybody really think we can subdue the Serbs with 90,000 troops - when after all the bombing, we KNOW that the Yugoslav Army is still mostly intact and they will die to the last man rather than surrender their homeland and the homeland of the Serb Orthodox Church?

This isn't the desert - and the Serbs know were all the caves in the mountains are - we don't. We are talking about fierce hand to hand combat between the Serbs, the best fighting force in Europe, and the feminized, don't-ask-don't-tell U.S. Army YOU, Bill Clinton, have created as your legacy. How long do you really think the watered down, feminine army you created will hold up in hand-to-hand combat with a tough Serb fighting force that is very angry at NATO for bombing and destroying their homes, their wives and children, their places of employment, their churches, hospitals, children's schools, etc.? The Iraqis just wanted to go home. The Serbs ARE home. We are the invaders.

Clinton said yesterday "Kosovo is a very small province in a small country. But it is a big test of what we believe in - our commitment to leave to our children a world where people are not uprooted and ravaged and slaughtered en masse because of their race, their ethnicity or their religion."

Yet he deliberately pursued a policy which ANY person reasonably familiar with the history of the Balkans would know could only lead to a humanitarian disaster. Much propaganda hype was made of the indictment of Slobadan Milosevic who is accused of being responsible for the deaths of 340 civilians in Kosovo. Yet, Bill Clinton is responsible for the deaths over at least 1,800 civilians in bombing raids on hospitals, refugee convoys, television studios, trains, apartments, etc.

What's your real goal in Kosovo, Herr Clintler? Well, what is America and its media discussing today? The accusation of Juanita Broaddrick that you raped her? It's totally off the radar screen. How about the sale or theft of the largest numbers of nuclear secrets in American history to the very same people from Red China who were ILLEGALLY contributing to your campaign in 1996? It's almost totally off the radar screen.

Any leader who actually wanted to avoid people being uprooted and ravaged and slaughtered would not be bombing hospitals, schools, old people's homes, TV studios, trains carrying civilians, etc. The bombs being dropped in Pristina, Novi Sad, Belgrade and other towns can't tell the difference between a Serb and an Albanian. So far, the greatest concentrations of deaths are Albanians in refugee convoys that have been hit with bombs. That certainly does fit in with your low opinion of women who have a lot of children. Albanian women have the highest birth rate in Europe. Can any sane woman anywhere in the world REALLY believe that Bill Clinton, the First Rapist, who blamed a woman (well, sort of), Janet Reno, for the incineration of 83 Americans, many of them children, at Waco, who praised women for denying their womanhood by having the "courage" to abort their full-term or near full-term babies and whose notion of "protecting his wife and daughter" is lying to them about Monica Lewinsky, actually care what happens to poor Albanian women with lots of children and little or no education, being driven from their homes and perhaps raped?

Sadly, it appears that there are still lots of silly women out there who are anxious and willing to be led astray by pigs like Bill Clinton.

Doesn’t say much for womenkind, does it?

June 3, 1999

On Tuesday, Secretary of State Madeleine, Warrior Frump Queen said in Washington that the "standard Belgrade must meet before air strikes ended was NATO's conditions, tougher on several points than those of the G8. NATO persists in its demand that Belgrade "withdraw in full from Kosovo, and let in a NATO-based international force, that refugees be able to return to Kosovo and that the province enjoy substantial autonomy." The Frump added, "We will not settle for less."

On Wednesday, in a NATO press conference Major General Walter Jertz, of SHAPE said: "As I mentioned on several occasions, we do not have direct contact with the Kosovar Albanian forces on the ground. However, they are obviously benefiting indirectly from our success against Serb forces. We carefully watch the ground situation close to the Albanian border. A Serb mechanized brigade based out of Prizren has managed to contain the UCK advance around Mount Pastrik, but by moving down to counter-attack, the Serbs have left some flanks exposed. UCK units in the interior appear to be taking advantage of this, and intensifying guerrilla type operations against Serb forces using classic partisan tactics. We are also getting reports of increased fighting between UCK special forces and Serb ground forces throughout Kosovo. It seems that the Belgrade political and military leadership may have been premature when it claimed victory over the UCK a few days ago."

So, in effect, we learn, what apparently Aunt Madeleine and Cousin Willie are insisting upon, and this probably was the reason that mission to Belgrade by EU envoy Martti Ahtisaari and Russia's Viktor Chernomyrdin was postponed twice. In fact, Reuters reported Wednesday, "Yugoslavia sent a flurry of peace signals on Tuesday but said the diplomatic moves on Kosovo now gathering steam could be blocked by the United States and Britain."

Through public statements of the U.S. State Department and NATO in the last 48 hours it would appear that blocking the peace efforts is exactly what Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair have in mind. We learn from NATO sources that it is providing air cover for the KLA to push back into Kosovo on the Albanian border, while simultaneously demanding a pull-back of Yugoslav forces BEFORE NATO will halt the bombing. That obviously means, even to a non-military mind, that NATO is demanding that the Yugoslav Army withdraw from Kosovo to allow the rag-tag KLA terrorists to move in and take over. This, of course, would be a repeat of what happened after the October 1998 cease-fire, which required the Yugoslav army to leave Kosovo. Milosevic agreed to that, and withdrew Yugoslav forces. The KLA was supposed to halt their terrorism - only, naturally, they didn't. They quickly took advantage of the vacuum created by the withdrawal of the Yugoslav Army and began to terrorize both Serbs and uncooperative ethnic Albanians.

Reuters reported: "The exact position of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is not clear but so far he has balked at a full-scale withdrawal of Serb troops from Kosovo and a major NATO role in the peacekeeping force."

Of course, that is not only Milosevic's position. That was what the Serb Parliament VOTED for. What apparently is being demanded, thanks to a last minute change required by Clinton, is exactly what the Serb Parliament rejected two months ago - the unconditional surrender of part of Yugoslavia to NATO.

One thing is clear: Clinton will run out of bombs, and the Serbs will run out of lives, before the latter will run out of resolve.

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June 4, 1999

After much behind-the-scenes bickering among NATO nations and Russia, the peace agreement brought to Slobodan Milosevic by EU envoy Martti Ahtisaari and Russia's Viktor Chernomyrdin, presumably with the understanding that it represented the NATO position, was quickly approved by Milosevic and the Serb Parliament.

Game, set, and match: Yugoslavia.

Bill Clinton has been checkmated and he knows it. Why? Because he is still determined to bomb Yugoslavia and is clearly is not at all happy that Milosevic signed the document. Why? Because the document represents a bitter defeat for the Clinton-Halfwit dream of turning NATO into their personal army with which they could handily bypass the U.S. Constitution and Congress.

While Clinton may find himself backed into a corner and FORCED to go along with the G8 peace proposal for Kosovo, he will do it only because time is running out on him. Clearly even those nations, such as Germany, which are perfectly willing to sacrifice their old enemies, the Serbs, are not going to approve of German ground troops trying to take Kosovo away from an entrenched, still well armed, now totally united Serb nation willing to fight and die for their homeland. Clinton is rapidly losing the voter approval rating he maintained during a year-long impeachment battle over his bombing of Yugoslavia. Furthermore, he is out of time and facing a determined Congress over his blatant violation of the War Powers Act. His sixty days of grace are up and he needs to come to Congress and ask its approval for his foreign adventures in Yugoslavia.

What makes his defeat even all the more bitter is that the G8 peace proposal is almost identical to the proposal made in February at the Rambouillet meeting - which Altzheimer and Clinton summarily dismissed. While he still may hold out and continue bombing, he could very well find himself abandoned by the NATO countries, with the possible exception of Britain and Tony "the Clone" Blair, and facing a growing fury in America and a loss of presidential prerogative in a Supreme Court decision that ends his dictatorial one-man bombing spree.

However, if we know anything at this point, we should know that Clinton has the world's most polished propaganda (read spin) machine. He could still come up with another scheme to drag a red herring across the trail to confuse and propagandize the American people yet again. His latest effort, getting his friend Louise Armour at the Hague to rush a war crime indictment of Slobodan Milosevic in a last ditch effort to scuttle the G8 peace efforts, didn't quite work.

Of course, no one in the Tyranny is admitting that the G8 proposal is almost a mirror image of the Serb Kosovo peace declaration that Belgrade tried to present for discussion at the meeting at Rambouillet. The so-called ethnic Albanian "autonomy" issue was never a problem. What the Serb president, Milan Milutinovic, tried hard to get in Rambouillet and Paris talks was protection of minority rights for all the OTHER ethnic groups in Kosovo.

Hashim Thaci, the KLA thug who somehow became the top spokesman in the Paris talks in February said, "We hope that the force of the ‘international community’ [That phrase should be expunged from the English language] will make Yugoslavia sign."

And the two months of bombing has been designed to do exactly that - force the Serbs to sign what amounted to a NATO/KLA ultimatum. That document, according to a letter sent to the French and British foreign ministers by nine Yugoslav delegates at the Paris talks from non-Albanian ethnic minorities in Kosovo, would make them second-class citizens in an ethnically cleansed Kosovo.

The differences in the three peace proposals, the one Clinton and Dumbbleep demanded that the Serbs sign, the one that the Serbs proposed in Paris, which was summarily dismissed by the Clinton Tyranny, and the one put forward yesterday by the G8 nations, primarily involved Serb sovereignty. Highlights of the three plans are as follows:

The Rambouillet Accord

The bombing was designed to force Milosevic to create an independent Republic inside Yugoslavia for a period of three years, followed by elections which would allow Kosovo to secede from Yugoslavia and allowed NATO troops unlimited power, financed by Yugoslavia:

Understanding the Rambouillet Accords - An overview prepared by the U.S. Department of State

The Rambouillet Accords are the only chance for a peaceful

resolution to the conflict and represent a three year interim

agreement that will provide democratic self-government, peace,

and security for everyone living in Kosovo:

1. Democratic self-government will include all matters of daily

importance to people in Kosovo, including education, health

care, and economic development. Kosovo will have a President, an

Assembly, its own courts, strong local government, and national

community institutions with the authority needed to protect each

community's identity.

2. Security will be guaranteed by international troops deployed

on the ground throughout Kosovo. Local police representative of

all national communities in Kosovo will provide routine law

enforcement. Federal and Republic security forces will leave

Kosovo, except for a limited border protection presence.

3. An international meeting will be convened after three years

to determine a mechanism for a final settlement for Kosovo. The

will of the people will be an important factor at the

international meeting. Democratic Self-Government During the

interim period, citizens in Kosovo will govern themselves

democratically through Kosovo institutions:

4. Kosovo will have a Constitution. The Constitution calls for

the democratic selection of a President, a Prime Minister and

Government, an Assembly, and strong communal authorities. Kosovo

will have its own Supreme Court, Constitutional Court, other

courts, and prosecutors.

5. Free and fair elections will be held within 9 months of entry

into force, under the supervision of the OSCE.

6. Kosovo will have the authority to make laws not subject to

revision by Serbia or the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,

including levying taxes, instituting programs of economic,

scientific, technological, regional, and social development,

conducting foreign relations within its areas of responsibility

in the same manner as a Republic, and all matters of local

government.

7. Kosovo and its national communities will perform most

functions presently handled by the Republic of Serbia. However,

citizens in Kosovo will be able to call upon Republic

institutions for assistance, if they wish. Including receiving

pensions, civil court proceedings in front of a Serb judge,

etc. The Federal Republic will not be permitted to act in ways

injurious to Kosovo.

8. National communities in Kosovo will be able to control their

own identities, including preserving their languages and

operating schools and hospitals. All other authorities are

forbidden from interfering.

9. Human rights and the rights of the members of all national

communities will be guaranteed.

10. The international community will play a role in ensuring

that these provisions are carried out, through a civilian

Implementation Mission, an ombudsman and constitutional court

judges selected under international auspices, OSCE supervision

of elections, and an international military presence. Peace and

Security The Parties invite NATO to deploy a military force

(KFOR), which will be authorized to use necessary force to

ensure compliance with the Accords, protect international

agencies involved with implementation, and provide a secure

environment for everyone in Kosovo. Security in Kosovo will be

handled by KFOR. All other security forces will withdraw or be

phased out under the supervision of KFOR, according to a

balanced schedule of reciprocal steps by all sides specified in

the Accords.

11. Yugoslav army forces will withdraw completely from Kosovo,

except for limited border guard force (active only within 5 km

border zone) and associated personnel.

12. Serb security forces will withdraw completely except for

limited number of border police and, for a transitional period,

a limited number of civil police officers who will serve at the

direction of the international Implementation Mission until

local police are trained to replace them.

13. Kosovo Liberation Army will hand over security in Kosovo to

NATO troops, and will be demilitarized. v14. Local police will

take over all policing duties in Kosovo within one year,

extendible for a limited period only by the Chief of the

Implementation Mission. A Mechanism for Determining a Final

Settlement

Three years after entry into force of the Accords, an

international meeting will be convened to determine a mechanism

for a final settlement for Kosovo, on the basis of the will of

the people, opinions of relevant authorities, each party's

efforts regarding the implementation of the Accords, and the

Helsinki Final Act.

APPENDIX B

Appendix B, the "Status of the Multi-National Military

Implementation Force," includes extraordinarily intrusive

provisions for Yugoslavia as a whole.

Section 6a. "NATO shall be immune from all legal process,

whether civil, administrative, or criminal."

Section 6b. "NATO personnel, under all circumstances and at all

times, shall be immune from the Parties, jurisdiction in respect

of any civil, administrative, criminal or disciplinary offenses

which may be committed by them in the FRY (Federal Republic of

Yugoslavia)."

Section 7. "NATO personnel shall be immune from any form of

arrest, investigation, or detention by the authorities in the

FRY."

The Serbs accepted the political part of Rambouillet, but not NATO occupation of Yugoslavia:

By the close of the first round of the Rambouillet talks in late

February 1999, Serb President Milan Milutinovic had already

declared Serbia's willingness to discuss "an international

presence in Kosovo" to monitor the implementation of the

accords. On February 21, Madeleine Albright responded by

insisting that "We accept nothing less than a complete

agreement, including a NATO-led force."

On March 23, the day before the NATO bombing began, the Serb

parliament adopted a resolution again rejecting the military

portion of the accords, but expressing willingness to review the

"range and character of an international presence" in Kosovo.

According to the Toronto Star's correspondent in Belgrade on

March 24, "There have been hints Serbia might ultimately accept

a UN force."

But the U.S. appears to have been unwilling to consider any option other than NATO troops. At a March 24 State Department press briefing, spokesman James Rubin was asked about this development:

QUESTION: Was there any follow-up to the Serb Assembly's

yesterday? They had a two-pronged decision. One was to not allow

NATO troops to come in; but the second part was to say they

would consider an international force if all of the Kosovo

ethnic groups agreed to some kind of a peace plan. It was an

ambiguous collection of resolutions. Did anybody try to pursue

that and find out what was the meaning of that?

RUBIN: Ambassador Holbrooke was in Belgrade, discussed these

matters extensively with President Milosevic, left with the

conclusion that he was not prepared to engage seriously on the

two relevant subjects. I think the decision of the Serb

Parliament opposing military-led implementation was the message

that most people received from the parliamentary debate. I'm not

aware that people saw any silver linings.

G8 Peace Proposal Approved Yesterday by Serb Parliament and Milosevic:

-Immediate and verifiable end of violence and repression in Kosovo

- Withdrawal from Kosovo of military, police and paramilitary

forces

- Deployment in Kosovo of effective international civil and

security presences, endorsed and adopted by the United Nations,

capable of guaranteeing the achievement of the common objective

- Establishment of an interim administration for Kosovo to be

decided by the Security Council of the United Nations to ensure

conditions for a peaceful and normal life for all inhabitants in

Kosovo

- Safe and free return of all refugees and displaced persons and

unimpeded access to Kosovo by humanitarian aid organizations

- A political process towards the establishment of an interim

political framework agreement providing for substantial

self-government for Kosovo, taking full account of the

Rambouillet accords and the principles of sovereignty and

territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and

the other countries of the region and the demilitarization of

the UCK (Kosovo Liberation Army or KLA)

-Comprehensive approach to the economic developments and

stabilization of the crisis region.

The obvious foot-dragging going on in the White House, the continued bombing, and the statements by the Clinton to the media yesterday were clearly efforts to stall for time. The G8 peace proposal is a crushing defeat for KLA dreams of a greater Albania, which would include Kosovo, and represents a major problem for those who positioned NATO as a multi-national military force to implement Clinton doctrine around the world.

If he can somehow avoid signing the agreement, Bill Clinton will.

June 7, 1999

The G8 peace proposal which the Serb Parliament signed and Milosevic approved, was a defeat for Clinton and NATO, since it clearly called for a United Nations Security Council resolution approving the make up of the international peace-keeping force. The G8 proposal states:

"Deployment in Kosovo of effective international civil and security presences, endorsed and adopted by the United Nations, capable of guaranteeing the achievement of the common objective

- "Establishment of an interim administration for Kosovo to be decided by the Security Council of the United Nations to ensure conditions for a peaceful and normal life for all inhabitants in Kosovo

- "Safe and free return of all refugees and displaced persons and unimpeded access to Kosovo by humanitarian aid organizations."

Milosevic’s agreement with the G8 proposal was greeted in Washington with unconcealed annoyance and continued bombing. The obvious foot-dragging going on in the White House, the continued bombing, and the statements by Clinton to the media yesterday were clearly efforts to stall for time. The G8 peace proposal is a crushing defeat for KLA dreams of a greater Albania, which would have included Kosovo, and represents a major problem for those who positioned NATO as a multi-national military force to implement Clinton doctrine around the world. If he can somehow avoid signing the agreement, Bill Clinton will.

And has. In the best Clintonesque form, Clinton's delegates in the military discussions that took place over the weekend, demanded an unconditional surrender of the Serb military, a 7 day period in which the Yugoslav army would come out in the open, on designated roads, with their heavy equipment and leave Kosovo province to NATO and the KLA terrorists.

Did ANYONE really think the Serbs would succumb to such a thing, after 72 days of bombing? Think about that. NATO gave NO promises, in writing or elsewhere, that they would not bomb the Yugoslav army, once they were out in the open where they could be detected by NATO spy planes. A very key provision in the G8 agreement, besides the involvement of the United Nations, was "Establishment of an interim administration for Kosovo to be decided by the Security Council of the United Nations to ensure conditions for a peaceful and normal life for all inhabitants in Kosovo."

To all the other ethnic groups in Kosovo, Serbs, Gypsies, Macedonians, Greeks, etc., that provision, which comes in the agreement BEFORE the return of the refugees, is critical. It means that Kosovo would not be ethnically cleansed of all other ethnic groups, in preparation for its inclusion in the "Greater Albania" planned by the KLA.

Indeed, as the New York Times reports today - "After two days of tense negotiations, NATO officials on Sunday night failed to get Yugoslav military officials to agree to terms for a Serb withdrawal from Kosovo, throwing into doubt the peace deal reached last week by political leaders and prompting NATO to promise to intensify bombing.

"The breakdown appeared to be caused by the Serb demand that the U.N. Security Council first approve a peacekeeping force before NATO troops enter Kosovo as well as by several details of the withdrawal plan itself, which Serb officials felt impinged on Yugoslav sovereignty."

Well, what did NATO and Clinton expect? The proposal CALLS FOR approval of the U.N. Security Council before any peacekeeping force enters Kosovo - and it does not call for a NATO military take-over. That's what the war is all about. That demand in Rambouillet that the Serbs agree to turn Kosovo over to a NATO occupying force was the lone point the Serbs would not agree to. They didn't agree to Hitler's troops taking over their country in 1941 and they are not going to agree to NATO troops taking over their country in 1999.

Not every journalist is merely printing NATO press releases and Jamie Shea's bizarre pronouncements. At least one appears to have read the G8 agreement. Early today this exchange took place in a press conference in Brussels at NATO headquarters with NATO spamsman Shea:

M. Jungwirt, DIE KLEINE ZEITUNG: You were giving us a scenario, signing the agreement, withdrawing Serb troops and stopping the bombing. Where does the UN resolution fit into this time frame?

Jamie Shea : The G8 foreign ministers are meeting tomorrow essentially to finalize the text of the UN Security Council resolution. Once that work is done, and hopefully it will be done successfully, the text can go off to New York and be voted upon quickly. As far as NATO is concerned, the quicker the better, but it does depend on the G8 tomorrow.

So, NATO knows what the proposal calls for. What we are watching is an incredibly clever effort on the part of Clinton and NATO to totally sabotage, by simply ignoring, the provisions of the G8 peace proposal.

CNN reports today "NATO leaders were insisting that the Yugoslavs sign the six- page document, which outlined the procedures for withdrawing forces from Kosovo. NATO was adamant that there would be no negotiations with the Yugoslavs and that the withdrawal must take place on NATO's terms."

Part of the "no negotiation" ploy of NATO includes the key point of the G8 peace proposal: "Establishment of an interim administration for Kosovo to be decided by the Security Council of the United Nations to ensure conditions for a peaceful and normal life for all inhabitants in Kosovo." According to CNN, NATO is flatly refusing to even consider the notion of ensuring conditions for a peaceful and normal life for all inhabitants of Kosovo. In fact, there is a near blatant expectation that everyone but ethnic Albanians will be expected to leave Kosovo.

Philip Smucker in Skopje, reporting for the London Telegraph wrote, "Serbs from Kosovo fear reprisal killings by the Kosovo Liberation Army when the Yugoslav army withdraws. They say that NATO is not offering enough guarantees for their safety in the troubled province. Danijela Knezevic, 28, a nurse with two small daughters said: "When I heard about the peace deal I called my husband in Pristina and said, 'This is great. I am coming home soon'. But he didn't share my opinion. He said, 'Be patient and stay there a little longer. The KLA might start to slaughter'."

America offered few assurances over the weekend. Ken Bacon, a Clintagon spokesman, said: "Our assumption is that many Serbs will leave Kosovo. I don't think that Kosovo is going to be a very happy place for them."

As the above story indicates, many Serbs, at least 25% of the total Kosovo Serb population, have fled Kosovo due to the NATO bombing in the last 2 months. However, Serbs are not given "refugee" status. They were not given refugee status when 300,000 were driven out of Krajina in 1995 and they are not being given refugee status when fleeing NATO bombing. An exodus of the remaining 150,000 Serbs from Kosovo, which Ken Bacon is clearly encouraging, of course makes a farce of the claim that the West seeks a "multi-ethnic Kosovo."

Albanian attacks against persons thought to be sympathetic to the Serb regime began over the weekend in the Stankovec II refugee camp. Several Gypsies accused of helping to burn Albanian homes were severely beaten in the camp by an angry mob. "Christopher Hill, the American Ambassador to Macedonia, arrived on the scene and tried to calm the Albanians by reassuring them that they would soon be going home under NATO's protection. But few Western officials appear ready to guarantee the safety of Serbs in Kosovo. The Serbs are most concerned about the first few days of the peace implementation process when their own forces leave and NATO forces move in," the London Telegraph reported.

Western officials estimate that the rebels now have 20,000 armed followers, which is four times the number they had 2 months ago. Clearly the KLA has been rearmed and given a financial infusion during NATO's bombing. "NATO officials say they hope to plug the security vacuum, but are not optimistic about creating immediate peace in Kosovo," the London Telegraph reports. "Captain Anthony Kennaway, a British spokesman for NATO in Skopje said: 'We are not saying that when the first troops cross the border we will have peace in Kosovo. We will be in Kosovo to enforce the peace and that applies to both sides. It has been made clear to the KLA that we expect them to abide by our terms.'

"Such statements are met with scepticism. The Serb people, who suffered immensely through two World Wars, have a long history of being persecuted. Zaklina Popovic, 30, a female economist from Pristina said: "NATO will provide no security for the Serbs in Kosovo. My husband is there, my job and my home. But I still don't feel free to plan my return."

In effect, what it all add up to is no security for Serbs in the so-called "peace-keeping" by NATO. That leaves them with no incentive to knuckle under to NATO occupation. NATO already has increased its bombing raids, which means increasingly that civilians will be targeted. Already many observers fear an outbreak of epidemic disease, since the electricity which runs things like sewage- and water-treatment plants, has been knocked out. The first to die, of course, are the elderly and the babies in hospital incubators.

It only took two days for Clinton to figure out how to avoid peace and continue bombing . All this humanitarian bombing to save the Kosovar Albanian refugees has made a wasteland out of the cities, villages and towns of Kosovo. At what point will Clinton finally conclude his humanitarian bombing is a total success? After millions are dead?

June 8, 1999

This has been a very interesting 72 hours. When the Serb Parliament and Milosevic agreed Friday to sign the G-8 Peace proposal, which was painstakingly pounded out by negotiations between Germany and Russia primarily, it was obviously an agreement totally different from what NATO had been demanding the Serbs sign for more than two months. However, it was obvious that the NATO military leaders were treating the new proposal exactly as if Milosevic had signed the Ramboillet proposal which Clinton and Aunt Madeleine demanded he sign in March.

It was, as stated before, a defeat for Clinton. Then the media and the statements from the White House began treating the G-8 proposal as if it were the same as the Rambouillet proposal. In retrospect, this tactic, of course, is exactly the tactic Clinton has used in every scandal of his Tyranny. He simply lies and has his people lie about the issue at hand. What did he hope to gain by the lie? There were a number of possible scenarios.

The respected Global Intelligence Stratfor (http://www.stratfor.com/SERVICES/GIU/daily.asp?section=6) analysis suggests several possibilities:

"Clearly, NATO believed Milosevic's decision to accept the G-8 was driven by the fact that he was desperate and, being desperate, he would now accept any interpretation of the G-8 accords that NATO placed on him. NATO read Milosevic as too badly beaten to resist the reinterpretation.

"More interestingly, NATO seemed to feel that the Russians would accept the reinterpretation as well. Remember that the G-8 accords were not negotiated between NATO and Serbia. They had nothing to do with Serbia. They were negotiated between NATO and Russia, and NATO's concessions were Russia's price for beginning the mediation campaign. By turning G-8 into Rambouillet and the Russian compromise solution into a Serb surrender, NATO put the Russian government into an incredibly difficult situation. As a result, political pressure began to rise in Moscow against the agreement and the treatment of Russia by NATO. Last week's compromise had turned into this weekend's surrender. By Sunday night, both Milosevic's capitulation and the compromise were up in the air.

"What in the world happened? There are several possible explanations.

* NATO's leaders, particularly Clinton and Blair, and also the Brussels bureaucracy, felt themselves under tremendous pressure to produce what appeared to be a victory. They tried to "spin" the G-8 into a Serb surrender for domestic political purposes, either unaware of the consequences in Belgrade and Moscow or convinced that they could get Serb acceptance of NATO's reinterpretation of G-8. They stole Milosevic's covers for their own use, gambling that he was too badly beaten to reverse course.

* Chernomyrdin was telling different things to different sides in order to get a settlement. The Russian role has been ambiguous at times. It is possible that Chernomyrdin's transmission of the meaning of G-8 to the various parties differed substantially. NATO may well have had a private understanding that G-8 meant Rambouillet, with a wink and nod to the UN. Milosevic may have had a private understanding from Chernomyrdin that G-8 meant the UN with a wink and nod to NATO. By the time everyone compared notes, they were on the Serb-Macedonian border. It would be particularly interesting to find out what Chernomyrdin told the Russian leadership.

* Russia has sold out the Serbs. We predicted a crisis in Kosovo on January 4, 1999 precisely because of Russo-American tensions. When Primakov fell, we stated that this represented a major geopolitical setback to Milosevic. We have always argued that the Russians made possible Milosevic's position. The Russians began to weaken their support for Milosevic when the IMF's $4.5 billion loan was made available. Perhaps one of Strobe Talbott's missions in Moscow was to negotiate a side deal with the Russians for delivering Milosevic to NATO. If so, it is not clear what the quid pro quo is. It is also not clear what the response in the Duma will be if it is revealed that Yeltsin approved a sell-out of Milosevic for unspecified goodies later on.

"What is certainly clear is that the G-8 agreements are not merely a restatement of the Rambouillet accords. When Milosevic realized NATO thought that they were, it appears that he balked. Now, if the Russians have truly abandoned him, if the third possibility is really what happened, then the Russians are now quietly telling him the game is up and Serbia stands alone. Milosevic will really have no choice but to capitulate. If, however, the first possibility is true, and NATO has spun the agreement to make it appear to be a surrender then NATO may well have sown the wind. If Serbia genuinely rejects the G-8 reinterpretation and is backed by Russia, then American and British spin-doctors will have to answer to NATO partners who are sick of the war. If this is Chernomyrdin's ego or incompetence getting in the way of the settlement, then we may be back to the beginning of a long, miserable haul.

"Whatever happened, the G-8 Ministers are going to meet tomorrow and NATO will get a chance to explain to the Russians how they got from here to there. Ahtisaari has postponed his trip to China and will have an opportunity to explain what he thought Milosevic was agreeing to when he said he accepted the G-8 agreements. All of the strings can be untangled. While they are, It will be an interesting few days."

Another possibility was suggested by contacts in Yugoslavia, which reported by a number of sources to an American professor that NATO threatened Milosevic and the parliament that there "existed a genuine, objective threat of really major, long-term and wide-spread electricity- and water-supply destruction on a massive scale, as well as carpet and napalm bombing of populated areas." A member of the Serb parliament, who voted for the G-8 proposal, now feels betrayed and fears that the document was "written more cleverly (than Ramboillet) so that one can gain the [false] impression that Serbia received certain allowances."

It is interesting that in all the possible scenarios suggested by Serbs and others who have been carefully watching the progress on this "humanitarian" bombing of the Serbs, none seem to see the distinct possibility that this is a deliberate lie on Clinton's part to do just what it seems to have done - create anger and suspicion among the Serbs, confusion among the military people and a growing despair among people all over the world at the prospect of NATO using the same tactics on other nations.

Will there be a peace agreement? Perhaps not. But one thing does seem to be certain: For the first time in his misappropriated reign, King William has a foreign policy. And it is the very warmongering imperialism of which liberals have long accused conservatives, leavened with Clinton’s moral arrogance and compulsive duplicity.

The road to Global Socialist Utopia, as always, is to be paved with the blood of the innocent.

June 10, 1999

An amendment introduced by Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) to S. 1122, a $30 billion Defense appropriations bill and passed Tuesday, states that "None of the funds made available in the 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act (Public Law 106-31) for emergency support of refugees and displaced persons and the local communities directly affected by the influx of refugees may be made available to implement a long-term, regional program of development or reconstruction in southeastern Europe except pursuant to specific statutory authorization enacted on or after the date of enactment of this Act."

The purpose of the amendment, according to Senator Gregg, was to prohibit use of funds in the bill for humanitarian purposes to make sure the funds "will be limited in their application so they cannot be used for long-term structural reform of the economy or the capital needs of Kosovo, without the [monarch] coming to Congress and requesting those funds be used in that way and without him putting forward a strategic plan which reflects how much it is going to cost us as a nation to reconstruct the Kosovo infrastructure. Until we receive that plan and it is approved by the Congress, these funds would not be made available for that sort of effort."

Of course, what is not being discussed or even mentioned by the electronic media is that the economy of Kosovo is very dependent upon the economy of Serbia. In fact, the economy of the entire Balkans will not flourish without Serbia's economy flourishing. The External Affairs Department of the World Bank, (http://www.worldbank.org/news) in a report entitled "Kosovo war devastates trade for Balkan neighbors" observed that the damage done by NATO bombing to vital transportation routes in Yugoslavia were creating a major economic problem for the entire Balkan Peninsula. It noted: "The Kosovo conflict has dramatically limited vital transportation routes in the Balkan peninsula, and the cost of the region's economic recovery is likely to surpass $50 billion, the Journal of Commerce (p.7A) reports. According to estimates by the World Bank, the situation is potentially very serious for Albania, considered by many to be politically fragile.

"The World Bank says the economic impact on Macedonia, a landlocked nation of 2 million, has been severe. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia accounted for 20% of Macedonia's exports, and 12% of its imports; more than 50% of Macedonia's trade traditionally passes through Yugoslavia.

The World Bank said the conflict has also hurt Romania, which also uses Yugoslavia as a transport conduit, the story adds. "The news comes as the OECD says in its latest report that the Kosovo crisis is already demonstrating its impact on the economies of Yugoslavia's neighbors, the Wall Street Journal Europe (p.9) reports. In Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, Croatia, and Bulgaria, GDP could decrease by as much as 5% this year, the OECD said, citing a recent estimate by the World Bank and the IMF. That estimate said an additional $1.5 billion in foreign funding would be needed this year for those five countries, in addition to Romania."

Today's London Telegraph reports that "Ministers from Europe, America, Russia, and Japan were last night finalizing details for what is being called the 'Marshall Plan for the Balkans'. It will be the most ambitious package of reconstruction seen on the continent since America rebuilt it under the European Recovery Programme devised by secretary of state George Marshall in the aftermath of the Second World War.

"This afternoon, at an extraordinary congress being held in Cologne, 36 countries and a dozen international institutions come together to launch a stability pact which aims to bring peace, development and democracy to Europe's neglected south-eastern corner, the source of so much bloodshed and instability since 1989. Sums of the order of £5 billion a year are being talked of for the region for many years to come, German sources say."

So, while the World Bank believes that the cost of NATO's cavalier destruction of Yugoslavia's infrastructure - bridges over the Danube, roads, oil refineries needed for gasoline, etc, is about $50 billion, the "ministers" are talking about $5 billion a year, and the Yugoslavs are putting the cost of rebuilding their wrecked nation at $100 billion. However, the World Bank noted: "But critics note that not a penny has actually been pledged." In fact, because of Senator Gregg's amendment to S 1122, none of THAT $30+ Billion will be used to rebuild the Balkans. "America is reluctant to pay," the report said, "and the European Union, on whom the burden will fall, is strapped for cash, its largest member, Germany already grappling with a spiraling budget deficit. As ever, the nations involved have so far been more interested in setting up committees than in digging into their pockets.

"Under the chairmanship of Germany, which currently leads the G8 group of industrialized nations, a detailed blueprint for the pact will be adopted by the assembled ministers. Britain is a strong supporter of the plan, which was originally proposed in April, while the bombing of Yugoslavia was at its height.

"The pact aims first to redress the economic damage the war has brought to Serbia's neighbors, and secondly to help ensure increased prosperity in the hope that this will reduce the danger of further instability in the region. It will cost billions of pounds, and run for many years, though none of the figures has yet been firmly established. German sources say that the money involved will be of the order of £3-5 billion a year. Beneficiaries of the pact, which senior British ministers admit will have to be largely paid for by the EU, will be all of Yugoslavia's neighbours: Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.

"Excluded will be Serbia itself. Senior British officials underline that until Slobodan Milosevic is gone, it is highly unlikely that any significant amount of western money will go to the state he presides over, though Serbia's sister Yugoslav republic, Montenegro, could well be eligible.

"An early draft of the stability pact, however, fails to make it clear that a change of regime is necessary before Yugoslavia could be included, but America and Britain are thought to be pushing to have this toughened up. However, senior officials recognize that it will probably be necessary to provide a bare minimum of aid to Serbia, for strictly humanitarian reasons.

"Help will have to be given towards repairing bombed power stations, since otherwise the Yugoslav people, with whom NATO says it has no quarrel, will face a grim Balkan winter. And the Danube will have to be cleared of the obstructions to shipping caused by the bridges that NATO bombs have brought crashing into the river. They affect not only Yugoslavia but Bulgaria and Romania too.

"Also not included in the aid programme is Kosovo itself. Until NATO forces enter the province, it is impossible to assess what its needs will be, and a separate ‘pledging conference’ for Kosovo will have to be held in a few months' time. The immediate needs of returning refugees will be met out of existing humanitarian and emergency budgets.

"The stability pact will be administered by a coordinator, likely to be a former leader of Austria's conservative People's Party, Erhard Busek, and will be charged not only with overseeing economic aid to the Balkans, but also with democratization, human rights and security issues."

Democratization? The man that the European Union, NATO and Bill Clinton wants to force out of office, Slobodan Milosevic, was ELECTED, for God’s sake. That's a whole lot more than can be said for Hashim Thaci, leader of the KLA which plans to be the government of Kosovo just as soon as they can get rid of the Serbs and the UN Peacekeeping force.

As of this writing, we are still waiting to see if there IS going to be an end to the NATO war in Kosovo. The last minute agreement among the military indicated that the Serbs’ refusal to act the part of a conquered army is beginning to grate on the nerves of NATO spokesmen. However, the determined position of the Serbs to bring the United Nations back into the discussions, which was what they wanted in the first place at Rambouillet, and an end to the bombing before they withdrew HAS been agreed to. That is not the way it is being reported by CNN and others whose idea of reporting is parroting official statements of NATO or the White House. However, last night NATO did not bomb for the first time in 77 days. NATO was very upset because the Serbs, they claim, have not started withdrawing. A Serb general in effect told General Jackson to keep his panties on, that he was moving out at 12:00 local time.

It appears that NATO and Clinton are trying desperately to make a defeat look like a victory. Billions of dollars of Western money is going to have to be found to take care of the humanitarian disaster caused by the bombing. Each time NATO intensified its attacks, more refugees found their way out of Kosovo to the refugee camps, which are being financed by NATO countries.

All the bluster about not helping Serbia is probably just that. Those bridges across the Danube HAVE to be rebuilt because if they aren't, Bulgaria and Romania have some serious problems. The electrical system and communications systems HAVE to be rebuilt in order for the other Balkan nations to rebuild THEIR economies - which are closely intertwined with Yugoslavia's economy.

However, passing legislation in Washington designed to force the Serbs to "get rid" of Milosevic sounds tough and will deceive a lot of people into thinking that somehow Clinton won his war. Of course, to pay for it, we'll have to spend the Social Security surplus and that will mean that, in the end, probably the baby boomers will find that they aren't going to be able to retire as early as they hoped. They'll have a few more working years to think about the wisdom of having blindly supported Bill Clinton for two elections.

So far as Milosevic is concerned, I rather suspect at this rate that the Americans could get the Serbs to oust him by insisting that they KEEP him as president.

Maybe he’ll step down if Clinton will join him in retirement – and the same prison cell.

That would almost make this gigantic crime worthwhile.