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To: GST who wrote (106297)	7/18/2003 1:45:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

No, we bombed the hell out of Belgrade.

To: GST who wrote (106297)	7/18/2003 3:10:37 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"And we worked with the UN to ensure the peace in Serbia once we could stop the fighting. : And we could have worked with the UN in iraq to keep Saddam in power so he could continue to repress, kill and torture his citizens while threatening his neighbors with wmds, whether real or imaginary. (Of course they were/are real) And also he could have continued to work in concert with various terror orgs as well. No, you and the UN are right, we should have left iraq alone. The hell with iraqis, arabs, irananians, and ultimately europeans and americans. Mike

To: GST who wrote (106297)	7/18/2003 6:36:40 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Opposing the Iraq war while supporting the Kosovo war is illogical, IMO. Saddam was responsible for far more atrocities in Iraq than Milosevitz was in Kosovo. In fact Kosovo repression before we intervened was much milder than what some of our allies subject their minority populations. The Kurds in Turkey had a lot fewer rights and were treated a lot worse than the Albanians in Kosovo, before our intervention. Ironically, Turkey was one of the coalition partners that participated in the Kosovo operation. And the Kosovo war with its intense bombing of the civilian infrastructure in Serbia was far worse in terms of civilian hardship than the Iraq war. I hate to imagine what the civilian casualties would have been if we had been forced to a land war in Serbia. If I had to pick which one should be tried for crimes against humanity, I would pick Clinton (and Allbright) over Bush (and Rumsfeld) without hesitation. Kyros