The Press Allowed Clinton To Commit War Crimes
By Dave Gibson (02/24/05)
In 1999, the Clinton administration orchestrated a war against the sovereign nation of Serbia. He justified his actions, by making claims of "genocide" against the Serbian government. Those claims have since proven to be unfounded. Serbia posed absolutely no threat to the United States, nor U.S. interests. They did not harbor terrorists, in fact the Serbian military was fighting against terrorists (the KLA). However, the liberal media never once questioned Clinton's motives nor do they to this day.
While the media claims there is no liberal-bias, in the way they report the news...history teaches us otherwise. President Bush has been waging a war against Muslim terrorists, a war in which we were attacked on our own soil. However, the American press has been relentless in their attempts to portray Bush as a war-monger and claim the war "unnecessary." Upon examination of the facts, one wonders how many so-called journalists can look themselves in the mirror.
Bill Clinton convinced NATO to join in the fight against the people of Serbia. In doing so, NATO actually violated the terms of their own charter. Not one NATO member nation had been attacked by Serbia, yet most of them sent troops to march on that country. The United States was attacked on 9/11, yet NATO is now nowhere to be found.
The air-war which was directed by Gen. Wesley Clark, targeted civilians. Under Clark's orders, U.S. warplanes bombed schools, hospitals, churches, office buildings, and private homes. They even bombed a nature park! In Belgrade, all three bridges which spanned the Danube were destroyed. They knocked out power and water to the Serbs. The bombing went on for 79 days.
While the U.S. was criticized for continuing operations in Iraq during the Muslim holy period of Ramadan...Not a word of dissent was heard, when Clinton bombed the Serbs on Easter!
A fair comparison could be made between Gen. Wesley Clark and Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering. Both conducted bombing campaigns against nations which posed no threat, and both specifically targeted civilians. Both are in fact, war criminals. However, while Goering was sentenced to death by an international tribunal for his crimes...Wesley Clark became a presidential candidate for the Democratic Party. It appears that for Goering--his timing was simply off!
Just as the left-leaning media never questioned Clinton's attacks on Serbian civilians...They sat back and accepted as gospel, every word uttered by NATO spokesman Jamie Shea.
Among Shea's many tall tales, during a May 1999 press conference, he announced that 100,000 babies had been born in the refugee camps (supposedly filled with people running away from Milosevic and not Clinton's bombing). Which was an outright lie. The camps (all five) held less than 80,000 people combined, and less than 30,000 were adult women. However, the Clinton-adoring press never questioned this ridiculous statement.
While President Bush is directing U.S. forces to combat terrorists, Clinton had our military fighting side-by-side with terrorists. The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was made up of mercenaries and foreign nationals mostly from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Afghanistan. Even the Clinton administration listed the KLA as a terrorist group.
The KLA as well as the Taliban operated on the profits made from opium sales, opium grown in Afghanistan. Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic had been battling the KLA for years. Clinton ordered him to stop and to allow NATO troops to occupy his nation. At the time, Clinton claimed that Milosevic had murdered more than 100,000 innocent people. That claim has since been proven to be false. Less than 3,000 bodies have been recovered since 1999, around 500 are believed to be KLA fighters, and many of the rest may have been killed in the daily U.S. led bombing raids.
Clinton went to war on the claim that Milosevic was conducting a "genocide." It was in fact, a false charge. However, the media has covered up this revelation. They would rather pick on President Bush, a man who goes after actual terrorists and who directs U.S. troops to build schools for Iraqi children.
Since 1999, the KLA has demolished 100 Serbian Orthodox Churches in Kosovo and forced approximately 250,000 Serbs to leave the area. These atrocities could not have been accomplished without the help of Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Gen. Wesley Clark.
In Feb. of 1999, Sen. Bob Smith (R-NH) said: "We are in essence becoming the Air Force for the KLA." That is precisely how Bill Clinton perverted our military.
Three years after his trial began, Slobodan Milosevic is still on trial. No verdict has been reached and none is in sight. Interestingly, Milosevic's popularity has actually increased since the start of the trial. Due to the lack of evidence, he will probably walk.
The same American press who today constantly criticizes President Bush for attacking our enemies...sat by silently six years ago and watched an American president commit senseless acts of war against a sovereign people. The same press who now complains about interrogations on behalf of terrorists, said nothing when Serbian babies were dying after Gen. Wesley Clark bombed their hospital.
The press has an important duty, to bring forth the un-biased truth. At one time, they understood this and they took their task seriously. Today however, the mainstream news-media is nothing more than another branch of the Democratic Party.
How sad.
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