an international tribunal headed by uber dem Ramsey Clark found
Clinton an Co GUILTY of.
Inconvenient? Or is there another reason for the dodge?
On Jan 18, 10:40 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The illegal invasion of Iraq was indeed in violation of both the
> United Nations Charter and also violated The Geneva Convention. See
> the Kucinich Articles of Impeachment I have provided previously for
> empirical proof and documentation.
>
> The "Bush Doctrine" was indeed illegal, and the war criminals
> responsible should be prosecuted.
>
> The blood is on the hands of the Republican party of low.
>
> On 1/18/11, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Dems are now pointing to Kofi Anan stating that Iraq was a violation
> > of UN Charter and international law.
>
> > They seem to forget that he said the same thing about Kosovo, yet we
> > went in anyway.
>
> > On Jan 18, 7:24 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Keithie keithie keithie
>
> >> your reich wing meanie
>
> >> how can Miss Hillary be expected to know who to support when crazy reich
> >> wing t baggers are shooting at her in Yugoslavia on the tarmac because
> >> Sarah
> >> Palin put a target on Bosnia!
>
> >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Keith In Köln
> >> <keithinta...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >> > One other interesting observation. I have had the opportunity to
> >> > discuss
> >> > "America" with a number of Europeans in the last two weeks,
> >> > predominately
> >> > Germans, but all of whom believe that the United States clearly backed
> >> > the,
> >> > "Wrong Side" in 1998 and should have in fact supported the Serbs.
> >> > There is
> >> > no question now, that the ousting of Slobodan Milosovic was a tragic
> >> > mistake, and we besmirched this good man's name with allegations of
> >> > genocide, when in fact, just the opposite was true.
>
> >> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Keith In Köln
> >> > <keithinta...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >> >> Sherrie Gossett is very astute:
>
> >> >> *"By election day, national polls indicated 60 percent of voters
> >> >> believed
> >> >> that the war had not improved the long-term security of the U.S., and
> >> >> 55
> >> >> percent thought that the U.S. should pull some or all of its troops
> >> >> from
> >> >> Iraq. The Democrats worked to further the discontent and clearly
> >> >> profited by
> >> >> it.*
> >> >> **
> >> >> *Senator Clinton cited the American military campaigns in Bosnia and
> >> >> Kosovo as models of foreign engagements that she favored on moral and
> >> >> strategic grounds.*
>
> >> >> *"I am a strong proponent of a national defense that is smart," she
> >> >> told
> >> >> CNN in August 2004. "What we need to be focused on is which president
> >> >> is
> >> >> more likely to make decisions that will achieve our objectives with
> >> >> putting
> >> >> the least amount of lives at risk," she said, adding, "You know, we
> >> >> were
> >> >> successful in Kosovo—and we didn't lose a single American military
> >> >> person."
> >> >> *
>
> >> >> *That view has been echoed by many other Democrats and some
> >> >> Republicans,
> >> >> too. Praising the Kosovo operations, former president Bill Clinton has
> >> >> even
> >> >> suggested that, under a Democrat administration, more such operations
> >> >> may be
> >> >> on the way."*
>
> >> >> **
> >> >> *============*
> >> >> **
> >> >> So, what Secretary of State Clinton means, is that she sees nothing
> >> >> wrong
> >> >> with American military might being used as a ruse, for instance, in
> >> >> diverting the American public's interests away from improprieties in
> >> >> the
> >> >> White House, such as covering up cum stains on an intern's
> >> >> dress......As
> >> >> long as we've got that covered.....(or uncovered....)
>
> >> >> **
>
> >> >> **
>
> >> >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Bruce Majors
> >> >> <majors.br...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >> >>> The Democrats' Model War
> >> >>> [image: Listen to this page using
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> >> >>> By Sherrie
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> >> >>> January 2007 --The 2006 U.S. elections, which put the Democrats in
> >> >>> charge
> >> >>> of the House and Senate, were widely described in media as a
> >> >>> referendum on
> >> >>> the Iraq war. Intense media scrutiny had resulted in critical reports
> >> >>> on
> >> >>> pre-war intelligence, the decision-making process that preceded the
> >> >>> war, the
> >> >>> postwar plan, and an unfolding civil war.
>
> >> >>> Books with titles such as *Fiasco*,* Imperial Hubris*, and
> >> >>> *Colossus*described
> >> >>> an America in denial of imperial ambitions that were destined to fail.
> >> >>> Their
> >> >>> authors and others ascribed to the U.S. such motives as arrogance and
> >> >>> a
> >> >>> willful refusal to learn from history. They characterized American
> >> >>> foreign
> >> >>> policy as an effort to impose democracy at gunpoint upon cultures
> >> >>> either
> >> >>> lacking democracy's fundamental precursors or just plain unwilling to
> >> >>> abide
> >> >>> by them. Prior to the election, Americans also heard multiple media
> >> >>> reports
> >> >>> of the worst unintended consequence of the war: the multiplying of the
> >> >>> ranks
> >> >>> of terrorists.
>
> >> >>> By election day, national polls indicated 60 percent of voters
> >> >>> believed
> >> >>> that the war had not improved the long-term security of the U.S., and
> >> >>> 55
> >> >>> percent thought that the U.S. should pull some or all of its troops
> >> >>> from
> >> >>> Iraq. The Democrats worked to further the discontent and clearly
> >> >>> profited by
> >> >>> it.
>
> >> >>> However, if the election was a vote of no confidence in the
> >> >>> administration's conduct of the war in Iraq, it left unanswered the
> >> >>> question
> >> >>> of what the Democrats would view as an appropriate use of American
> >> >>> military
> >> >>> force in the world. It's a question most Democrats have preferred to
> >> >>> dodge,
> >> >>> but they have given us some disquieting clues.
> >> >>> What would Democrats view as an appropriate use of American military
> >> >>> force?
>
> >> >>> Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the front-runner in national polls for
> >> >>> the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, has said openly what many
> >> >>> Democrats think: Democrats go to war for the right reasons and
> >> >>> prosecute war
> >> >>> more successfully. Prior to the 2000 presidential election, Senator
> >> >>> Clinton
> >> >>> cited the American military campaigns in Bosnia and Kosovo as models
> >> >>> of
> >> >>> foreign engagements that she favored on moral and strategic grounds.
>
> >> >>> "I am a strong proponent of a national defense that is smart," she
> >> >>> told
> >> >>> CNN in August 2004. "What we need to be focused on is which president
> >> >>> is
> >> >>> more likely to make decisions that will achieve our objectives with
> >> >>> putting
> >> >>> the least amount of lives at risk," she said, adding, "You know, we
> >> >>> were
> >> >>> successful in Kosovo—and we didn't lose a single American military
> >> >>> person."
>
> >> >>> That view has been echoed by many other Democrats and some
> >> >>> Republicans,
> >> >>> too. Praising the Kosovo operations, former president Bill Clinton has
> >> >>> even
> >> >>> suggested that, under a Democrat administration, more such operations
> >> >>> may be
> >> >>> on the way.
>
> >> >>> So, what are these "objectives" that Senator Clinton alluded to? What
> >> >>> would future war-fighting look like according to the Clinton doctrine?
> >> >>> One
> >> >>> has only to look at Kosovo to see the blueprint and organizing
> >> >>> principle
> >> >>> behind what could become the long-term future of U.S. foreign policy
> >> >>> under
> >> >>> the Democrats.
> >> >>> A Disputed Land
>
> >> >>> Approximately the size of Connecticut, Kosovo is a province within the
> >> >>> Republic of Serbia, an Eastern European country that controls one of
> >> >>> the
> >> >>> major land routes from Western Europe to Turkey and the Near East.
> >> >>> Like the
> >> >>> rest of what used to be Yugoslavia, Kosovo had a rich mix of ethnic
> >> >>> groups
> >> >>> and different nationalities. Ethnic Albanians, who are predominantly
> >> >>> Muslim,
> >> >>> make up the majority of a population of around two million. The
> >> >>> presence of
> >> >>> many Albanian Muslims and the Ottoman Turks over the centuries has
> >> >>> left a
> >> >>> countryside dotted with mosques. Meanwhile, the predominantly Orthodox
> >> >>> Christian Serbs form the largest minority group. For them, Kosovo—home
> >> >>> of
> >> >>> the Patriarchate of Peć, the equivalent of the Vatican for Orthodox
> >> >>> Christianity—is the center of their religious and national identity,
> >> >>> both
> >> >>> their Jerusalem and their Alamo. Other minorities present include the
> >> >>> Montenegrins, Turks, Croats, Ashkali, Roma (Gypsies), and Muslim
> >> >>> Slavs.
>
> >> >>> In previous centuries, the Serbs had been the most populous group in
> >> >>> Kosovo, but over the years were driven out in large numbers. One
> >> >>> reason was
> >> >>> brutal treatment during World War II, when Nazi and Italian troops
> >> >>> invaded
> >> >>> Yugoslavia. Kosovo Albanians sided with the Axis Powers, helped raise
> >> >>> an SS
> >> >>> *Skanderbeg *division, and began a systematic slaughter and ethnic
>
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