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To: JBL who wrote (7501)	5/8/1999 10:17:00 PM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

JB, So we accidentally bombed the Chinese Embassy. I wonder if the Serbs are using laser scanners to redirect our laser guided weapons? Well Barry I can get behind bombing the Chinese since they are our real enemies. I am active in Africa and it would take a list a mile long to list all of the bad things that the banal, evil Chinese Communists have been up to there....

To: JBL who wrote (7501)	5/9/1999 1:42:00 AM
From: J. Stone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

>>the news the Chinese get are pretty much the Serb version<< China's official version of events in its state-controlled media has been that hegemonic, US-led NATO has been the aggressor in this war, attacking the independent, sovereign people of Serbia. And the reason China has taken this position is because the Chinese government has long had its own internal policies of ethnic cleansing in places such as Xinjiang, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia. For decades, these regions have suffered as the Chinese government destroyed cultural institutions, forcibly relocated inhabitants and indiscriminately killed dissenters. The Chinese government is in no way interested in having the Chinese people know the truth - that Serbia is under attack due to its policies of ethnic cleansing - as this is exactly what has been happening in China for a long time, and on a far greater scale. regards, JS

To: JBL who wrote (7501)	5/9/1999 1:08:00 PM
From: John Lacelle	Respond to of 17770

JBL, The memory that other nationalities maintain vs what the typical American knows is always amazing to me. The Serbs are still pissed off about 1389 and your typical American student cannot even tell you who won World War II. I work at a University and I was having trouble understanding why the students are not upset about this undeclared war in Europe. Then I realized that they were not even born when the Viet Nam War made its impact upon the American psyche. No wonder that they are more concerned about the next "rave" and not about the fact that their little butts are about to get drafted so that they can keep the peace on a street corner in Pristina. -John