Neocon, your "confirmed" numbers are misleading...
I am afraid we will never know the exact number of casualties. What the Yugoslav sources have confirmed is about 500 soldiers dead...I would probably double that to be closer to the actual number. Civilians are between 2,000 to 2,500 dead. The destruction of the Yugoslav military machine has been an incredible failure...13 tanks damaged, 7 left behind totally destroyed and 6 taken back to Yugoslavia for repair. But the civilian infrastructure has been devastating...this, along with the Russians' sellout, was the only reason Milosevic "capitulated" and signed a pretty good agreement to end the war...only to see Nato contuinually violating everything on it.
I would like to point out that the number of dead in the conflict against the terrrorist KLA was about a few thousand, mostly civilians (both Serb and non-friendly Albanian)...
Now we got the Russians bombing the hell out of Chechnyans...using Nato's tactics as an excuse...what a sad sad sad war that was and its repercussions will be felt for decades...
ok, back to work, four more days to the end of the final extension of tax returns (sending your hard earned tax dollars to Uncle Sam).
OT: I loved Mystery Men |
