Throughout the history of America from Vietnam to the present, there has always been a strong opposition to war. Vietnam saw mass protest. When the US invaded Grenada and Panama, there was a large opposition. When the first George Bush invaded Iraq in 1991, there was quite an opposition. From the stats I have heard, about 30-35% of the nation opposed the move. The present war in Iraq has less than a majority of support, in the public and military.
But what happened to the opposition for the bombings in Kosovo? In 1999, Bill Clinton came to congress and said that over 100,000 Kosovars had been killed by Serbian forces. The real death toll was about 2,000. Most of the deaths were members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, who committed terrorist attacks all over Serbia (Still called âYugoslaviaâ at the time, but I will refer to it as Serbia). Clinton directly lied to congress and the public. He claimed there was a genocide that did not exist. It was the main reason for going to war with Serbia.
Clinton rallied NATO to bomb Serbia and stop their âinterventionâ on Kosovo. The bombings killed about 2,800 people, more than the Serbs killed in Kosovo. Most deaths were civilian deaths. Yet Clinton was never bashed for these bombings. NATO was barely criticized. No one calls Clinton a war criminal. Why?
The answer is the sex scandal in the White House. We all know the story of Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, so I donât think I need to re-tell it. The entire nation was engrossed in this sex scandal. Did Clinton do it? Did he not? That is all that was on the news. Despite the fact that dozens of civilians were dying every day in the Kosovo bombings, the media, nor the public, gave a crap out it. The only thing the mattered was whether or not Clinton got lucky in the Oval Office.
Apparently, all that matters to the public is a good sex scandal. The current Bush got it all wrong. He should have boinked with some young intern in the Oval office right before invading Iraq. If that happened, there would be no where near the opposition to the war as there is now. I genuinely believe that. If there was a sex scandal with Bush before invading Iraq, I think the majority of the public would support the war because most people would care more about the sex scandal.
Donât get me wrong, I am totally against the war in Iraq. This writing is not in any way to justify the War in Iraq. If I were the next president, my first order of business would be to charge Bush with war crimes. But I have to question why nobody cared when Clinton lied about bombing Kosovo. No one remembers it. There is only a small majority who criticize the bombings. I truly believe the sex scandal dazzled the media and took all focus off of Kosovo.
He claimed there was a genocide that did not exist. It was the main reason for going to war with Serbia.
Ethnic cleansing was taking plce. There are people in my squadron who served in that particular conflict and who spoke to people on the ground throughout. Whole villages were massacred and hundreds of mass graves were found. I dont know where you got these statistics but they are clearly misinterperated or from a biased source.
The bombing strategy used in Kosovo saved many more lives than it ended. Instead of sending in ground forces we gave the serbs ultimatums. First we would fly in and drop leaflets on the villages and cities saying if you dont give in you have until tommorrow when your water supply will be destroyed. Then the next day we bombed their resevoirs. Then we would do the same thing for electricity and then for steel and so and so forth. It was a very clever tactic that turned the people against Milosovic and helped save many lives so dont talk rubbish. And yes Megamickel is right. From all the symbols in the text you can tell this has been clearly copied and pasted from somewhere.
There's always so many conflicting opinions and "facts". I don't care about the past. It's just a gigantic blame game if we look back at bad things. "Be happy be happy" :]
well these seeing the best in everything aproach but to me you seem a little naiive. We will never learn from the mistakes mankind has made previously if we simply choose to ignore and dismiss all the negative historical events.
