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To: Dale Baker who wrote (14775)	12/21/2004 9:07:18 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

Hi Dale, I've always harbored some questions about the U.S. and NATO involvement in Serbia. The official story was something that I initially took at face value, i.e. "Milosevic was an ethnic monster". But over the course of time I've come to learn, as Paul Harvey might say, "the rest of the story". Or, in my case, at least a lot more of it. As you probably are aware, the largest construction project ($1 B.) for the Halliburton KBR division in the 1990s was Camp Bondsteel, located in Kosovo. It turns out that Bondsteel sits within 50 miles of some of the world's richest metals mines. It also turns out that Bondsteel sit astride a proposed oil & gas pipeline designed to eliminate the Dardanelles bottleneck for Caspian reserves. I've discovered that the Clintons eagerly allied themselves with the Kosovo Liberation Army, a thuggish bunch of narco-traffickers who are crucial to the movement of Central Asian (Afghani, primarily) heroin into the European drug markets. Shades of Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" on a different continent. And now I've just read a damning article, that if true and if I can corroborate it, will utterly destroy the case being made by the Anglo-American imperialists about that mean old Milosevic. John Pilger takes away the veils and exposes the real goals of our malevolent campaign of imperial aggression in Serbia in this well-written article: antiwar.com Just as with the difficulties to be expected with a fair trial of Saddam Hussein, implicating most of the Reagan-Bush Adminstration as co-conspirators, so with Slobodan Milosevic exposing the ugly and ulterior agenda that the West has in attempting to destroy Milosevic politically. The imperial vendetta against working socialist societies seems to be one of the most virulent forces of evil on this planet today. Capitalist propaganda aside, Saddam Hussein was too good for his people and too unwilling to cater to a handful of Western corporate oligarchs. Therefore he was eliminated from power. The same with Milosevic. And the U.S. government has spent a small fortune to attempt to eliminate the immensely popular Hugo Chavez in Venezuela for exactly the same sin against the capitalists. In this world, the best way to assure an attack on your nation and your person by the immoral imperialist forces of the arrogant United States is to attempt to care for your people. Just ask Jean Bertrand Aristide.