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To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (260985)	11/25/2008 1:23:28 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793912

we would not be forced to Bomb "peaceful" Serbian cities Sorry for the late response - just "re-discovered" your post. I think there are valid question WRT bombing of Serbia. There is such a variety of "vested interests" on this issue that it is difficult to really understand what happened. That's why I try to stick to few cool cold facts. One example - the bombing of Novi Sad: Devastated by NATO bombardment, during the Kosovo War of 1999, Novi Sad was left without all of its three Danube bridges, communications, water, and electricity. Residential areas were cluster bombed several times while its oil refinery was bombarded daily, causing severe pollution and widespread ecological damage (See: 1999 NATO bombing in Novi Sad). en.wikipedia.org If you check the map, you'll notice that Novi Sad is all the way up in north Serbia, while Kosovo is on the southern border. I'm told that up until recently - maybe even today - those collapsed bridges caused problems for local economies, including those of the surrounding nations, which depend on open navigation on the Danube river. Surely there were other ways to apply pressure on Milosevic - and help the Muslim population of Kosovo - other than destroying civilian infrastructure of faraway cities. I suspect to a large extent we owe it to guys like Wes Clark.