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Who
Lost Kosovo?
by
Cliff
Kincaid [commentator]
6/16/06 |
Senator John
Kerry, the defeated 2004 Democratic candidate for president,
was the subject of a May 28 New York Times article about how
he is once again trying to rebut allegations about his military
service made by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. With a sympathetic
media, such as that represented by the Times story, Kerry thinks
he might be able to rehabilitate himself and try another presidential
run. The Times endorsed Kerry for president in 2004.
But Kerry
may have some competition. On Memorial Day, another former
Democratic presidential candidate, retired General Wesley Clark,
tried to rewrite the history of the war in Kosovo in order
to make himself into a great military hero. "Last week," he
said, "I returned to Kosovo for the first time since I retired
from military service. For me, this trip was very personal.
In 1999, I commanded the NATO forces that stopped the genocide
against ethnic Albanians by Slobodan Milosevic and his Serbian
forces."
Contributor
Cliff Kincaid
Cliff Kincaid, serves as editor of the Accuracy
in Media (AIM) Report. A veteran journalist and media critic, Cliff has
appeared on the Fox News programs Hannity & Colmes and The O'Reilly Factor,
where he debated O'Reilly on global warming, the death penalty, and the homosexual
agenda. He was a guest co-host on CNN's Crossfire (filling in for Pat Buchanan)
in the 1980s, where he confronted the then-Libyan Ambassador to the U.N. with
evidence of Libyan involvement in international terrorism. Through his America's
Survival, Inc., organization (www.usasurvival.org),
he has been an advocate on behalf of the families of victims of terrorism and
has published reports and held conferences critical of the United Nations.
His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Washington Times, Chronicles,
Human Events, Insight, and other publications. He served on the staff
of Human Events for several years and was an editorial writer and
newsletter editor for former National Security Council staffer Oliver North
at his Freedom Alliance educational foundation. He has written or co-authored
nine books on media and cultural affairs and foreign policy issues. Cliff is
married and has three sons.[go to Kincaid index]
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That
sounds pretty impressive-commanding the forces
that stopped genocide. Too bad it's not true.
Genocide
is defined as seeking to eliminate an entire
group of people. But the number of dead found
in Kosovo after the war was said to be only
2,108. That was the figure given by Carla
del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia,
at a December
1999 press conference. But it wasn't
clear they were all Kosovo Albanians. Indeed,
many may have been Serbs. That's a terrible
loss of life, but it's no genocide.
That
figure also didn't include the number of
Serbs killed in Serbia by the NATO mission
commanded by Clark and ordered by President
Clinton. The mission was both illegal and
unconstitutional, since Clinton never received
the authorization of Congress to conduct
the war.
In
his message, Clark went on to tell another
whopper. Referring to the NATO campaign,
he said, "This was an example of how we CAN
do it right: diplomacy first, strong leadership,
working with others, and using force only
as a last resort. We had a plan for what
to do after the operation before we began
air strikes."
Working
with others? Congress was bypassed. And what
was that plan? Serbia today is being dismembered,
so that a Muslim state in Kosovo can be established.
Clark didn't mention that most of the Albanians
in Kosovo who want independence are Muslims.
He
referred his supporters to photos
of his visit to Kosovo. Previously, however,
Clark had posed for a photo
with Hashim Thaci, leader of the terrorist
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), also known
by the initials UCK. This is the group laying
siege to Serbian Christian churches in Kosovo
today.
For
those interested in this largely untold (by
the media) story, go to the website of Bill
Murray, chairman of the Religious Freedom
Coalition, who visited the area in August
2004 and filed this
stunning report.
Our
media are ready and eager to pounce on Bush
whenever he is perceived to have made a misstatement,
but a retired General and former Democratic
presidential candidate tells blatant lies
about Kosovo and gets away with it. In fact,
he uses his participation in this illegal
and unconstitutional war as a badge of honor.
Bush,
of course, will be the favorite target for
some time to come. Typical is Frank Rich's
forthcoming book about the Bush presidency, The
Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and
Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina.
That
will be the media theme at least until after
the November congressional elections.
Rich
and his colleagues will try to make you ignore
the fact that while Bush has had a policy
of fighting terrorists in places like Iraq
and Afghanistan, Clinton, Clark & Company
had a policy of helping them gain political
power through false charges of genocide.
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