Reply #81: Yeah.....the incident was fully investigated [View All]

And neither Clark, Clinton or Gore were deemed war criminals. Sorry to disappoint you.

You must remember that Wes Clark submitted himself to a full investigation.....unlike other Generals. In the end the 16 people that perished in that attack were part of the 487-511 estimated civilian casualties in the 79 day war to stop the genocide. The lives saved vastly surpass the lives losts. No....none of it is pretty, but war is hell. Again, a war that even the Pope deemed as noble.

Clark reads Chombsky, you'll be glad to know. So he's aware that he's given orders that resulted in the death of innocents. It's not something that he's proud of...

Too bad that you don't take up this kind of energy at Freeper sites attacking Bush and Cheney and Powell and the entire U.S. Armed Forces! Such a waste of your energy!

You should go vote for Kucinich and call it a day. Since you obviously believe him to be the answer to your needs, that is certainly what I would recommend.

Me? I'll keep supporting Wes Clark, someone who I feel is as admirable as Kucinich, if not more so, and has a much better chance at actually changing things for the better (whether you believe or agree with it, I really don't give a damn).


foreign media representatives were apparently forewarned of the attack (Amnesty International Report, ibid). As Western journalists were reportedly warned by their employers to stay away from the television station before the attack, it would also appear that some Yugoslav officials may have expected that the building was about to be struck. Consequently, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair blamed Yugoslav officials for not evacuating the building, claiming that "hey could have moved those people out of the building. They knew it was a target and they didn’t … t was probably for … very clear propaganda reasons." (ibid, citing Moral combat – NATO at war, broadcast on BBC2 on 12 March 2000). Although knowledge on the part of Yugoslav officials of the impending attack would not divest NATO of its obligation to forewarn civilians under Article 57(2), it may nevertheless imply that the Yugoslav authorities may be partially responsible for the civilian casualties resulting from the attack and may suggest that the advance notice given by NATO may have in fact been sufficient under the circumstances.

The proportionality or otherwise of an attack should not necessarily focus exclusively on a specific incident. (See in this regard para. 52, above, referring to the need for an overall assessment of the totality of civilian victims as against the goals of the military campaign). With regard to these goals, the strategic target of these attacks was the Yugoslav command and control network. The attack on the RTS building must therefore be seen as forming part of an integrated attack against numerous objects, including transmission towers and control buildings of the Yugoslav radio relay network which were "essential to Milosevic’s ability to direct and control the repressive activities of his army and special police forces in Kosovo" (NATO press release, 1 May 1999) and which comprised "a key element in theYugoslav air-defence network" (ibid, 1 May1999).
http://www.un.org/icty/pressreal/nato061300.htm#IVB3


You are now dismissed.

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