Re: Kosovo and DU

Immediately just before the NATO bombing on Yugoslavia began, the reports
were that 2,000 Kosovar Albanians had been murdered over the past two years
and that as many as 50,000, perhaps even 100,000 were about to be murdered.
After the bombing, there was a massive forced displacement of Kosovar
Albanians, including the murders of an unknown number.  Despite the best
efforts of U.S. technology, including FBI forensic experts, satellite
photos, etc, current estimates of bodies found range between 600 and 2,000,
and some of them might be Serbian victims.  Somewhere between 500 and 1500
Yugoslavians were killed as a direct result of the NATO bombing, and it is
difficult to estimate how many more deaths will result from the consequences
of bombing roads and bridges, which doubtless has caused more deaths as
people in critical situations may be unable to get quick medical care.

About the two years prior to the bombing and the initial US/NATO rationale
of two thousand murders -- Kosovo has about 2 million people. Two thousand
constitutes a murder rate of one/thousand, over two years.  Gary, Indiana
which adjoins my city of Hammond, has about 100,000 people and approximately
one hundred murders per year, or about one/thousand over one year. Gary has
twice the murder rate that Kosovo had.

But that was enough of an excuse for US/NATO which was carrying on the older
imperial British strategy of destabilizing regions to keep them weak and
vulnerable, without actually having to physically occupy them.

It is true that some Serb military forces did commit war crimes. No doubt
there were individual soldiers, even perhaps some high ranking military
officers who approved the execution of civilians. But nothing like the
ridiculous lies we were fed about 25,000 or 50,000. And if "depleted
uranium" does cause cancer among civilians, if various other actions such as
bombing chemical plants caused civilian deaths, then the charge of "war
crimes" must be applied to the US/NATO effort. And all this pales in
comparison to the massive civilian deaths caused by the US led embargo
against the Iraqi people, and of course the Vietnam War. And how come people
are developing amnesia about the massive civilian deaths the U.S. military
caused in Vietnam, as well as destabilizing the rest of Southeast Asia and
laying the basis for many more outside Vietnam?  Why are people who condemn
imperialism considered "fringe" or "hysterical"?  Because the mainstream
liberal intellectuals serve their masters by lying outright in propaganda
service to these mass murderers. And no, that's not exaggeration.

Alan Spector


Alan Spector



----- Original Message -----
From: <franka@fiu.edu>
To: <wwagar@binghamton.edu>
Cc: <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: Kosovo and DU


> everything warren says is right - except the second sentence.
> there is no evidence of any such campaign, and the NATO/Brit "defense'
> minister-now NATO head's, claim of 10,000 then 100,000 Albian massacred at
> Serb hands has turned out by Nato and other forenscic teams to have been
> less  than 2,000 - far too many but far fewer  than necessary to whip up
> popular support for the NATO mission = to expand eastward, and of the
> 2,000 many were Albanian combatants and others probably were also
> Serbs. And as to the alleged Serb plan that Warren refers to,
> 1. the Germans invented an alleged such plan, which was then shown to be a
> hoax, even in leaked German foreing ministry reports and [all another
> Tonkin Gulf and incubator babies in Kuwait]
> 2. many Albanians fled into Serbia - from NATO!
>
> to beOn Sun, 14 Jan 2001 wwagar@binghamton.edu wrote:
>
> > Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 19:37:08 -0500 (EST)
> > From: wwagar@binghamton.edu
> > To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu
> > Subject: Kosovo and DU
> >
> >
> > The well-deserved flap about DU should not obscure the fundamental
> > evil involved in the U.S./NATO rampage against Serbia.  I do not doubt
> > that Serbia had in mind a campaign that would drive many ethnic
Albanians
> > over the border, with ethnic Albanian casualties in the process pour
> > encourager les autres.  The U.S. once engaged in "Indian wars" to effect
> > the same result.  Be that as it may.
> >
> > The real point is that the United States and its "allies"
> > intervened in the affairs of a Balkan republic in the hope of teaching a
> > lesson, to wit:  do not adjust your television sets, we are in control,
> > and we will bomb into submission anybody who resists us.  If it helps us
> > to demolish your tanks by resorting to nuclear weapons, so be it.  We
are
> > above the law, if law there be, and we will use our technology to slice
> > you to ribbons.  Should any civilians on the ground die in the process,
so
> > much the worse for them!  We're not trying to save them, anyway, we're
> > trying to assert our hegemony.  Should any of our precious peacekeepers
> > die in the process, well, we never promised them a rose garden.
Besides,
> > they're not us!  They're expendable, right?
> >
> > Of course the ultimate jest is the "D" in "DU."  The uranium is
> > depleted for any serious use in weapons or energy production, but if it
> > remains radioactive for several millennia, hey, that's life!  Or
> > half-life.  Or death. ...
> >
> > Yours in disgust,
> >
> > Warren
> >
> >
>
>
>
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