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To: goldsnow who wrote (5573)	4/26/1999 11:07:00 PM
From: George Papadopoulos	Respond to of 17770

They shoot reporters, don't they? The man famed for saying "I did not have sex with that woman" on national television said that Serbian Television studios were a legitimate target because they told lies. And so journalists, producers, cameramen, copy writers, secretaries and janitors died. Some 70 civilians dead or missing. In prime time. Live. If you have the stomach for it click here beograd.com to see what is left of them. The bombing of the studio was a deliberate act of depraved indifference for human life, a murder. If NATO wanted to silence Serbian Television broadcasts to the Serbian people, they could have targeted transmitters and repeaters, all of which are unmanned and located at remote locations. But NATO's goal was not to stop the propaganda directed at the Serbian people. Serbian people watch unrestricted Western satellite TV feeds: CNN, Sky, BBC. They do get both sides of the story. NATO's goal was something much more sinister. All the pictures of war destruction you have seen on CNN and the networks came to you via the Serbian TV studio in Belgrade. If it is destroyed and its cameramen and reporters are killed, you won't be able to see the demolished passenger trains, refugee convoys and office buildings that NATO is targeting. Once this uplink is dead, you will have to believe Jamie Shea that NATO is waging this war only against Milosevic and targeting only the military. There won't be any pictures to contradict him. And what of the American press? Silence there. Can it be that those banner waving proponents of free speech, those supporters of truth in journalism are now silent? Does it not strike terror in their very souls that the President of the United States has declared their profession a legitimate target? NATO has already lost this war. It is using ever larger bombs, an ever expanding list of targets, ever shifting moral boundaries. Will eventually all Serbs become legitimate targets? I wonder if in 1999 there is a Joseph Welch* to get up and decry: "Have you no sense of decency, at long last?" Branislav Andjeliæ