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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (40886)	4/7/2005 7:35:22 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Remember when Tom DeLay thought that Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic couldn't be defeated by NATO? How defeatist was that! To think how the GOP would have howled had the Democrats contended Saddam Hussein couldn't be defeated by the US led invasion in 2003. Sayeth DeLay, as noted by Slate's William Saletan at the time, in the midst of the NATO air war in 1999 (with US military personnel lives on the line), "He's stronger in Kosovo now than he was before the bombing. ... The Serbian people are rallying around [Milosevic] like never before. He's much stronger with his allies, Russians and others." Of course by "allies" and "others" DeLay meant...DeLay. Now we know that DeLay was doing all of this as the beneficiary of largesse from the Russian security services. Taking an expensive vacation at the expense of the military of a foreign power to support America's enemies. warandpiece.com atrios.blogspot.com markarkleiman.com Of course, within weeks, Serbia had raised the white flag and retreated from Kosovo and Milosevic agreed to allow 37,000 NATO-led peacekeepers into the province (a deal brokered with the reluctant assistance of Russian Yugoslavia envoy and DeLay golfing buddy Victor Chernomyrdin), and a little over a year later, the Serbian people peacefully turned Milosevic out of office after elections. A year after that, Serbian authorities rounded up Milosevic and sent him off to the Hague to face war crimes charges.