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The Clintons, and the people who support them, are one of the most
dangerous forces of evil in the world today, the Democrat
equivalents of Cheney and Karl Rove. No one should be incarcerated
or even killed as long as the Clintons are permitted to be walking
around free.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/08/2014 10:46 AM, David Johnson
via Peace-discuss wrote:<br>
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<big><big>And the REAL reason for the U.S. Nato war in
Yugoslaviz in 1999, which was the first neo-liberal military
intervention, was to destroy a non-market Socialist economy,
which after the cold war had become the threat of a good
example.<br>
See Diana Johnstone's " Seeing Yugoslavia through a dark
glass " for a well documented history of this period </big></big><br>
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August 07, 2014
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<div class="subheadlinestyle">Return to Kosovo</div>
<h1 class="article-title">Bill Clinton’s Most Abominable Freedom
Fighters Uncloaked</h1>
<div class="mainauthorstyle"><big><big>by JAMES BOVARD</big></big></div>
<big><big> </big></big>
<div class="main-text"><big><big> </big></big>
<p><big><big>Former president Bill Clinton continues to
pirouette around the world as a visionary humanitarian and
senior statesman. But the sordid truth about some of his
favorite “freedom fighters” is finally becoming
undeniable. A European Union task force last week
confirmed that the ruthless cabal he empowered by bombing
Serbia in 1999 has committed atrocities including
murdering individuals to extract and sell their kidneys,
livers, and other body parts.</big></big></p>
<big><big> </big></big>
<p><big><big>Clint Williamson, the chief prosecutor of a special
European Union task force, declared that senior members of
the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) had engaged in “unlawful
killings, abductions, enforced disappearances, illegal
detentions in camps in Kosovo and Albania, sexual
violence, forced displacements of individuals from their
homes and communities, and desecration and destruction of
churches and other religious sites.”</big></big></p>
<big><big> </big></big>
<p><big><big>A special war crimes tribunal is planned for next
year. But the New York Times reported that the trials may
be stymied by coverups and stonewalling: “Past
investigations of reports of organ trafficking in Kosovo
have been undermined by witnesses’ fears of testifying in
a small country where clan ties run deep and former
members of the KLA. are still feted as heroes. Former
leaders of the KLA. occupy high posts in the government.”
American politicians have almost entirely ignored the
growing scandal. Vice President Joe Biden hailed former
KLA leader and Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci in 2010
as “the George Washington of Kosovo.” A few months later,
a Council of Europe investigative report tagged Thaci as
an accomplice to the body trafficking operation.</big></big></p>
<big><big> </big></big>
<p><big><big>The latest allegations might cause some Americans
to rethink their approval of the 78-day bombing campaign
against Serbia that killed up to 1500 civilians. In early
June 1999, the <i>Washington Post</i> reported that
“some presidential aides and friends are describing
[bombing] Kosovo in Churchillian tones, as Clinton’s
‘finest hour.’” Clinton administration officials justified
killing civilians because the Serbs were allegedly
committing genocide in Kosovo. After the bombing ended,
no evidence of genocide was found, but Clinton and
Britain’s Tony Blair continued boasting as if their war
stopped a new Hitler in his tracks.</big></big></p>
<big><big> </big></big>
<p><big><big>Kosovo was wracked by a civil war in which both the
Serbs and their opponents committed atrocities. The KLA’s
savage nature was well-known before the Clinton
administration formally christened them “freedom fighters”
in 1999. The prior year, the State Department condemned
“terrorist action by the so-called Kosovo Liberation
Army.” The KLA was heavily involved in drug trafficking
and had close to ties to Osama bin Laden. But arming the
KLA helped Clinton portray himself as a crusader against
injustice and shift public attention after his impeachment
trial. Clinton was aided by many congressmen anxious to
portray U.S. bombing as an engine of righteousness. Sen.
Joseph Lieberman whooped that the U.S. and the KLA “stand
for the same values and principles. Fighting for the KLA
is fighting for human rights and American values.”</big></big></p>
<big><big> </big></big>
<p><big><big>After the bombing ended, Clinton assured the
Serbian people that the U.S. and NATO agreed to be
peacekeepers only “with the understanding that they would
protect Serbs as well as ethnic Albanians and that they
would leave when peace took hold.” In the subsequent
months and years, American and NATO forces stood by as the
KLA resumed its ethnic cleansing, slaughtering Serb
civilians, bombing Serbian churches, and oppressing any
non-Muslims as well as ethnic Albanians who did not
support the KLA. Almost a quarter million Serbs, Gypsies,
Jews, and other minorities fled Kosovo after Clinton
promised to protect them. By 2003, almost 70 percent of
the Serbs living in Kosovo in 1999 had fled, and Kosovo
was 95 percent ethnic Albanian.</big></big></p>
<big><big> </big></big>
<p><big><big>In 2009, Clinton visited Kosovo’s capital,
Pristina, for the unveiling of an 11-foot tall statue of
himself. The allegations of the KLA’s involvement in
organ trafficking were already swirling but Clinton made
no mention of the grisly record of his hosts. Instead, he
stood on Bill Clinton Boulevard and lapped up adulation
from supporters of one of the most brutal regimes in
Europe. A commentator in the U.K. Guardian noted that the
statue showed Clinton “with a left hand raised, a typical
gesture of a leader greeting the masses. In his right hand
he is holding documents engraved with the date when NATO
started the bombardment of Serbia, 24 March 1999.”
Regardless of the persecution that followed the bombing,
the authorizing documents for the aggressive war were
presumed to be as holy as the stone tablet with the Ten
Commandments that Moses purportedly received.</big></big></p>
<big><big> </big></big>
<p><big><big>Shortly after the end of the 1999 bombing campaign,
Clinton enunciated what his aides labeled the Clinton
doctrine -“whether within or beyond the borders of a
country, if the world community has the power to stop it,
we ought to stop genocide and ethnic cleansing.” In
reality, the Clinton doctrine was that presidents are
entitled to commence bombing regardless of whether their
accusations against foreigners are true. As long as the
U.S. government promises great benefits from bombing
abroad, presidents can usually attack who they please.</big></big></p>
<big><big> </big></big>
<p><big><big>Clinton’s war on Serbia was a Pandora’s Box from
which the world still suffers. Because politicians and
most of the media portrayed the war against Serbia as a
moral triumph, it was easier for the Bush administration
to justify attacking Iraq and for the Obama administration
to bomb Libya. Both interventions sowed chaos from which
continues to curse the purported beneficiaries.</big></big></p>
<big><big> </big></big>
<p><big><big>The bombing of Serbia also revealed prior to 9/11
that the American media would uncritically parrot the U.S.
government’s war propaganda. In the mainstream media, no
one did more to oppose and denounce the war than the late
Counterpunch co-founder Alexander Cockburn. In his
columns in the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/29/local/me-27493"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://articles.latimes.com']);">Los
Angeles Times </a>and elsewhere, he debunked one
justification after another for attacking a foreign nation
that posed no threat to America. And, in pieces sometimes
co-authored by Jeffrey St. Clair, he revealed how the war
had <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/1999/06/15/who-nato-killed/">utterly
failed</a> to achieve Clinton’s lofty-sounding goals.
Cockburn also <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://articles.latimes.com/1999/aug/19/local/me-1746"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://articles.latimes.com']);">pointed
out</a> that “Hillary Rodham Clinton was an enthusiastic
advocate for the cluster bombs that now litter the Serbia
and Kosovo landscapes, set to kill or cripple for the next
half century.” (A roundup of articles by Cockburn and St.
Clair on the Serbian war can be found in the 2004 book, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Crusades-Iraq-Afghanistan-Yugoslavia/dp/1844675068/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407343398&sr=1-1&keywords=9781844675067"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.amazon.com']);"> Imperial
Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia</a>.)</big></big></p>
<big><big> </big></big>
<p><big><big>Unfortunately, Bill Clinton will never be held
liable for killing innocent Serbs or for helping
body-snatchers take over a nation the size of Connecticut.
Clinton is reportedly being paid up to $500,000 for each
speech he gives nowadays. Perhaps some of the well-heeled
attendees could flourish artificial arms and legs in the
air to showcase Clinton’s actual legacy. And at least the
KLA’s defenders can still praise the terrorist group for
not being cannibals.</big></big></p>
<big><big> </big></big>
<p><big><big><em><strong>James Bovard</strong> is the author of
author of <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AKZH97W/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00AKZH97W&linkCode=as"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.amazon.com']);">Public
Policy Hooligan</a>,<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/140397666X/counterpunchmaga"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.amazon.com']);">Attention
Deficit Democracy</a>, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1403968519/counterpunchmaga"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.amazon.com']);">The
Bush Betrayal</a>, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1403963681/counterpunchmaga"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.amazon.com']);">Terrorism
and Tyranny</a>, and other books. More info at <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.jimbovard.com;"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.jimbovard.com;']);">www.jimbovard.com;</a> on
Twitter @jimbovard</em></big></big></p>
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