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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. T. who wrote (555221)	3/23/2004 11:52:05 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The last I read on the subject, there were claims that, as many as 10,000 (Ethnic Albanians) were killed - original estimates were ten times larger. Certainly 10,000 killed is very bad, but it hardly compares to Bosnia, or Rawanda, or Saddam's campaigns against the Marsh Arabs and Kurds. I don't know about the mass rape of muslim women in Kosovo - I belive that occurred in Bosnia (but you could be correct). That being said, I'm not saying the the NATO bombing in Kosovo was wrong - just that the action was to prevent genocide, not stop it (Preemtive attack). Even the views of American Allies seemed to be ignored... "Opinion of the Bavarian Administrative Court, October 29, 1998 (Az: 22 BA 94.34252): "The Foreign Office's status reports of May 6, June 8 and July 13, 1998, given to the plaintiffs in the summons to a verbal deliberation, do not allow the conclusion that there is group persecution of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo. Not even regional group persecution, applied to all ethnic Albanians from a specific part of Kosovo, can be observed with sufficient certainty. The violent actions of the Yugoslav military and police since February 1998 were aimed at separatist activities and are no proof of a persecution of the whole Albanian ethnic group in Kosovo or in a part of it." re:"It doesn't matter what the court ruled. Mass graves, mass slaughter, mass rape of muslim women were well documented."