Razorbak, While we are being completely honest, what in the g_-d__mned hell is going on over in the Balkans??? Now we need over 1,000 American aircraft to fight a tiny nation????? Isn't there anyone in the Congress with the "cajones" to stand up and ask what is going on????
I don't know about you all, but I consider a 1,000 aircraft armada a war- a really big war- which needs a declaration of war against the Sovereign Country of Yugoslavia under the US Constitution!
This whole affair is deplorable and IMO COMPLETELY UNECESSARY to resolve the issue. President Clinton -an open question for debate- who is more the fascist- the soldier who stands right by you and executes you the civilian like the Serbs- or he who rains down impersonal high tech death on civilians from above like you?
And do you think touching off a genocide in Kosovo and bombing Serbia back into the Stone Age will further peace in an already unstable region???? Stop the damned bombing and go resolve this affair peacefully through negotiations and economic pressure! This whole affair is just competely unbelievable!(Just my honest opinion Razorbak- this whole thing has been botched...).
"Come on all of you big strong men, Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He's got himself in a terrible jam way down yonder in....." Country Joe and the Fish, 1969.
U.S. considering hundreds
more planes for Kosovo
assault
April 12, 1999
Web posted at: 10:16 p.m. EDT (1416 GMT)
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The
United States could soon send
several hundred additional
warplanes to Europe to intensify
the attacks against Yugoslav
troops on the ground, Pentagon
sources said Monday.
This armada will be in addition to
the 82 new planes the Pentagon
approved this past weekend.
A senior defense official said the
Pentagon is now considering the
latest request for extra planes
from Gen. Wesley Clark, NATO Supreme Commander, Europe, and that the request will likely be approved soon.
Sources said the requested aircraft would be used for air-to-ground attacks, suppression of air defenses and refueling tankers.
The United States already has supplied about 500 of the roughly 700
NATO planes for Operation Allied Force.
The additional planes will bring the total number of NATO planes to close to 1,000.
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