Wed, 7 September 2016 Johnny Cirucci
Almost three years ago, I wrote a story about the outrage of Bill Clinton committing the United States military to needless war in Bosnia.
In December of 1998, Congress began impeachment proceedings against William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.
In January of 1999, William Jefferson Blythe Clinton committed the American military to a 500 year old religious conflict between Bosnian muslims and Serbian Christians in the former Yugoslavia…aiding the Islamists against their Orthodox foes.
The action was sold to the American people as necessary due to inhuman atrocities created by Serbian “ethnic cleansing”, but a decade later it emerged that Albanian muslims self-inflicted “cleansing” on innocent locals:
Eve-Ann Prentice, a British journalist who covered the Kosovo war for the Guardian and the London Times, testified during Slobodan Milosevic’s trial in the Hague. He said that rather than being driven out by the Serbs, “The KLA [Kosovo Liberation Army] told ethnic Albanian civilians that it was their patriotic duty to leave because the world was watching. This was their one big opportunity to make Kosovo part of Albania eventually, that NATO was there, ready to come in, and that anybody who failed to join the exodus was not supporting the Albanian cause.” ~ Rewarding Terrorism, Deception in Kosovo, Andy Wilcoxson, World Net Daily
Even the “atrocities” were hotly contested at the time as nothing more than contrived provocations for war:
…in Belgrade, Gen. Wesley K. Clark, the NATO commander, and Gen. Klaus Naumann, chairman of the NATO military council, were sitting with President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia. They came brandishing a plastic portfolio of color photographs documenting a massacre of Albanians three days earlier by Serbian security forces in the Kosovo town of Racak.
They also came with threats of NATO air strikes.
This was far from their first encounter with the Serbian leader, but this time, they recalled, they found a newly hardened man with a bunker mentality.
“This was not a massacre,” Milosevic shouted. “This was staged. These people are terrorists.”
When General Clark warned him that NATO would “start telling me to move aircraft,” Milosevic appeared infuriated by the prospect of bombings. He called the general a war criminal. ~ How a President, Distracted by Scandal, Entered Balkan War, Elaine Sciolino and Ethan Bronner, New York Times