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To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (14977)	10/18/1999 12:36:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Why am I not shocked. We need to quit having CNN run foreign policy. They want nothing more than to have media events to drive up ratings. Maybe we should just send Christianne Kualampoor and her coworkers to fight over there.

To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (14977)	10/18/1999 1:56:00 PM
From: MNI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

George, you picked out all the wrong passages: the important ones: While new findings could invalidate this view, evidence of mass murder has not yet materialized on the scale used to justify the war. [...] Thus, the question of the truth or falsehood of the claims of mass murder is much more than a matter of merely historical interest. It cuts to the heart of the war - and NATO's current peacekeeping mission in Kosovo. [...] But the aftermath of the war has brought precious little evidence, despite the entry of Western forensics teams searching for evidence of war crimes. [...] As important, no one appears to really be trying to recover all of the Kosovo war's reported victims. [...] It appears that both governments and outside observers relied on sources controlled by the KLA, both before and during the war. [...] What is clear is that no one is systematically collecting the numbers of the dead in Kosovo even though such work would only help NATO ...

To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (14977)	10/18/1999 7:55:00 PM
From: robnhood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

George, I just came over here to post this Stratfor thing, but I see you beat me to it. I hope all the war drummers on here have a good hard swallow, and pump up their lies to themselves some more. Stratfor,, Huh ,, some intelligence gathering--- I could have told them this was a bunch of horseshit long ago.] Where's these idiot"s news service--CNN, Eh--- Silence , Silence---- What a load of crap... I'm pissed---- All the time I spent arguing with idiots on here, who treated me like an idiot---Eat your BS.... Not You George--- You were one of the few that shed doubt on this travesty,,,, I mean all those dopes that have themselves so wrapped up in a flag that they can't see for looking.

To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (14977)	10/19/1999 10:57:00 AM
From: John Lacelle	Respond to of 17770

Not only that but it appears that The Hague War Crime Tribunals are failing to get convictions. The second Bosnian Serb to be tried for War Crimes has been aquitted. It appears that the judges failed to find that there was sufficient evidence to prove that the Commander of the prison camp was "guilty of the act of genocide". He did plead guilty to "crimes against humanity" but the 12 Muslim and Croat prisoners he killed failed to prove that he was trying to "systematically" destroy a population of people. So much for the claims of "genocide" we heard so much of during the Croatian and Bosnian civil wars. It appears that it was one big propaganda ploy to get the UN and NATO involved. The whole Yugoslavian Civil War has turned into a non-event. This proves once again that foreign intervention in civil wars simply makes them more protracted, bloody, and often unresolved. -John