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To: robnhood who wrote (9994)	5/26/1999 11:28:00 PM
From: Graystone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

The Crisis Begins or Roger One Niner, clear for takeoff Boom, Boom, Boom et al Yugo tanks use less fuel. The remains make a nice pot for the back yard A 27" bike tire can substitute as a tread in an emergency.

To: robnhood who wrote (9994)	5/26/1999 11:32:00 PM
From: hui zhou	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

From Waco to Kosovo inwave.com 05-24-99 Thomas Fleming When Janet Reno sent in the FBI to fry the women and children in the Branch Davidian home, I was in Italy covering the Lega Nord. Stunned by what I read in the Italian press, I told my friends that a turning-point in American history had been reached: if t he American people did not rise up and throw the rascals out, if Janet Reno and her colleagues were not put on trial for murder, there would be no hope of restoring the republic. The Italians were not shocked by my remarks: they assumed the worst. Intelli gent Europeans were already learning to fear the violence of the new American empire and many people who knew the truth of what the US did in Bosnia compared US airstrikes with Waco. But Bosnia was nothing compared with Kosovo, where every day NATO airstrik es are taking out power plants, bombing schools and hospitals, and murdering civilians. When the news is finally reported, the Julius Streichers of the regime, Jamie Shea and Jamie Rubin, come on television to express regret for the incident. Honest journ a lists, like Charley Reese on the right and Alex Cockburn on the left, have denounced NATO aggression from the beginning, and in the recent number of "Counter-Punch," Cockburn and his partner, Jeffrey St. Clair, report on a grisly connection between Waco and Kosovo: the sinister NATO commander, Wesley Clark. During the Waco stand-off, apparently, Governor Anne Richards asked Clark, who was then commander of Ft. Hood, for advice. The answer came through his subordinates: take out the leader. Cockburn and St. Clair comment: Certainly the Waco onslaught bears characteristics typical of Gen. Wesley Clark: the eagerness to take out the leader (viz., the Clark-ordered bombing of Milosevich's private residence); the utter disregard for the lives of innocent men, w omen, and children,; the arrogant miscalculations about the effects of force; disregard for law, whether of the Posse Comitatus Act governing military actions within the United States or, abroad, the purview of the Nuremberg laws on war crimes and attacks on civilians. Speaking of the bombing the presidential residence of Slobodan Milosevic: As our government must have known, neither Milosevic nor his government actually owned the house. It belongs to Dragomir Acovic, a leading Serb architect who happens t o be royalist, an anti-Communist, and a bitter opponent of the Milosevic government. The suit to recover his property had been working its way through the Yugoslav courts, but it seems pointless now. In the first week of the bombing, I asked Mr. Acovic to respond to Clinton's statement that he was not making war on the people of Yugoslavia but only against Milosevic. He said his answer was not appropriate for polite company. The Arkansas Mafia's contempt for international law was underscored by an article in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE, Monday, May 10, 1999, by a former Nuremberg prosecutor, Walter Rockler: For the United States, alias "NATO," the planning and launching of this war by the president heightens the abuse and undermining of warmaking authority under the Constitution.... The bombing war also violates and shreds the basic provisions of the United Nations Charter and other conventions and treaties; the attack on Yugoslavia constitutes the most brazen international aggression since the Nazis attacked Poland to prevent "Polish atrocities" against Germans. The United States has discarded pretensions to international legality and decency, and embarked on a course of raw imperialism run amok. Rockler goes on to contrast our alleged concern for human rights wi th the fact that "we dropped twice as many bombs on Vietnam as all the countries involved in World War II dropped on each other," killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in the process. We went on to sponsor and train local armies and death squads in Central America and saw nothing wrong [i.e. aided and abetted] the Croat slaughter and expulsion of 200,000 Serbs from the Krajina area." Thomas Fleming