he's called "Weasely" Clark for good reason.
A first hand account by a witness in Yugoslavia. May 15, 2006:
As part of a U.S. military planning staff, I (amongst other educated U.S. military officers) attempted to warn the
amazingly insane and emotionally unstable Gen Wesley Clark that his intentions would lead only to the following:
1) We would facilitate the establishment of a Muslim state in Kosovo.
2) This would be the second Muslim state to established in the heart of Europe, following Bosnia, in just three years. What might the consequences be?
3) This would grow into a very painful experience for Europe and the U.S. 10-20 years down the road.
4) We would enforce Serbia's perception that they are the bastard stepchild of Western Civilization.
Clark fired over twenty of his top intelligence analysts for briefing these views to him. He persisted with his fantasy that the Kosovar Albanians were as pure and clean as the wind-driven snow; innocent victims of a simple Serbian compulsion for evil. Yeah, right!
Clark was clueless and a madman. Behind closed doors,
the overwhelming majority of officers on the EUCOM planning team thought he was INSANE.
However, after he fired the first several, everyone got the picture. Cook the intel to make the Kosovars look like angels and the Serbs like demons.
Clark had a demented and paranoid beef with Milo because the Serbian President showed the American General no deferrence whatsoever during Dayton negotiations with Ambassador Holbrook, for whom Clark was a bag carrier/military aide.
I was also in Bosnia for seven months as a human intelligence officer; the
most civilized persons I met with overall, were Serbs. The most frightening, Muslims. The place was crawling with mujahideen who were only there, of course, because the Americans had done nothing to save the Muslims. Dirty pajamas, long beards, AK's, the works. I know, because I disarmed them myself.
I visited a Catholic Church in a (former) Half-Croat/Half-Muslim town, Gornji Vakuf. The church had been razed, burned, and the
alter lined with 110 young Croats who were summarily executed, along with the Parish Priest.
On the rectory was spray painted the words, "There is no more time for you here." In other parts of the town, many walls and buildings were spray painted with the words,
"Mismo Hamas," which is Serbo-Croat for, "I am Hamas." In fairness, I did see a noticeable amount of "Ustace" (nazi) "U's" (by Croat/Bosnian and Albanian Nazis) spray painted in other towns, too.
Milo was a bastard. That said, the Serbs are the most maligned and heroic of our brothers in Europe. After the battle of the Field of Blackbirds alone, they should be praised as heros that should stand alongside Charlamegne and the boys who stormed Normandy, on opposite ends of the temporal octave of late Western Civilization.
And I'm Croatian!
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Talk about a weasel of the first order.
I had to replace my modem a while back and the guy who did it for me was supposed to download all my files but didn't.
I had a video of a press briefing presided over by Clark, (who looked for all the world like he had just shot up and eight ball), and during the question/answer session a courageous USAF officer asked Weasel some rather pointed questions which he couldn't even attempt to answer in an intelligent manner.
There was something horribly, horribly wrong at the top of a chain of command that duplicated Hitler in ordering the bombing of Belgrade to start on Easter Sunday morning when parents were taking their dressed up children to Easter services, and targeted child day care centers, hospitals, retirement homes and a zoo, among other 'military' targets.
What a travesty!!
The people of Serbia would never have even voted in Milosevic except for the horribly one sided mishandling of the Balkan situation by the Clinton administration in the beginning, starting with Croatian military action against Serbs who had lived in the are since 822.
(briefly:
On May 1, 1995, the Croatian Army attacked and overran United Nations Protected Area Sector West, the Serbian majority region of Western Slavonija, killing over 3,300 Serbian civilians of the Republika Srpska Krajina, demolishing Serbian houses, and ethnically cleansing over 20,000, who fled to Bosnia and Serbia.
In this ''UN Protected Area'', Serbian civilians were killed and their homes destroyed and looted by Croat soldiers as UN peacekeepers stood by, in the following villages: Pankovac, Medari, Smrtic, Vrbovljani, Donji Bogicevci, Gradjani, and Covac.
Croat aircraft and artillery shelled a refugee column of 2,000 near Nova Varos, killing a reported 200 men, women, and children.
In launching the military offensive, code named 'Operation Lightning,' the Croat government of Franjo Tudjman grossly and flagrantly violated UN Security Council Resolutions protecting the human rights of the Serbian population of the UN Protected Area, Sector West. The Croatian government had the diplomatic, political, and military support of the United States and Germany. US Ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith even sat in on high-level Croat military meetings which planned military operations against the UN Protected Areas. Croatia was a ''client state'' and the ''White House and the State Department were hoping the Croats would deal the Serbs a blow.'' The UN and NATO did nothing to protect the UN Protected Area. Air strikes were not called by the UN although UN posts and UN peacekeepers were the first targets of the Croat forces.
The Jasenovac Memorial Museum and Center, a memorial to the hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies murdered by the Croatian NDH government from 1941 to 1945, were looted, desecrated, and heavily damaged. The UN and the so-called international community did nothing. The Serbian majority population of Western Slavonija, a so-called UN Protected Area, was eradicated and ethnically cleansed, their homes were looted, destroyed, and burned. For ethnic Serbs, it was a repeat of the past. Serbs were condemned to repeat the past within a short interval of fifty years. Those Serbs who survived the NDH genocide witnessed a repeat of history, a 'final solution'.
On August 4, 1995, the Croat government launched a massive military offensive against UN Protected Areas, Sectors South and North, the Serbian majority area of Krajina. The Croat offensive was launched with the shelling of Knin, bombarded with 10,000 shells on August 4 and 5. As with the earlier attack on UN Protected Area, Sector West, the Croat Army first attacked UN peacekeepers and their posts. In the initial assault, 3 UN peacekeepers were killed, one from Denmark and two from the Czech Republic,while 20 other UN peacekeepers were wounded. The UN reported that ''their death is the result of a direct artillery attack by the Croatian Army on their observer post.'' The UN and NATO, however, took no action.
Indeed, US NATO aircraft bombed Krajina Serb missile batteries in Knin! NATO was in fact supporting the Croat offensive against a UN Protected Area! US Ambassador Galbraith and US Ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright did nothing, even though the Croat Army was overrunning a UN Protected Area which the UN had itself established.
On August 9, near Vrginmost, British journalist John Scoffield was deliberately killed at close range by Croat soldiers. Scoffield was part of a BBC crew which was filming Serbian houses being torched by Croat troops. Two of Scoffieldâs colleagues were wounded.
UN Spokesman Chris Gunness stated that the goal of the Croat offensive was part of a systematic and planned strategy to terrorize Serbian civilians to force them to flee their homes in Krajina: ''We suspect that the goal of this war was to drive people off their territory and take their land. We are confronting a looming humanitarian disaster.''
David Rohde, in the Christian Science Monitor of August 7, 1995, reported that ''few governments - most noticeably the US - are voicing concern over how the Croatian operation is being conducted.'' The majority Serbian population of Krajina was being butchered and ethnically cleansed as if they were cattle or swine. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl went on vacation. European diplomats were unconcerned, even though in theory at least, the Croat attack, which included over 100,000 regular army troops, threatened to plunge Europe into the largest war since World War II. But apparently they knew something which they were not telling. They knew the Krajina would be allowed to fall and that its Serbian majority would be butchered like cattle or swine and ethnically cleansed from their ancestral lands. The US State Department justified the attack on the grounds that Croatia was establishing control over its 'internationally recognized borders.''
Knin, which had a pre-war majority Serbian population of 88% was looted and burned and its Serbian inhabitants were forced to flee. Over 300,000 Krajina Serbs would be ethnically cleansed in
the largest single act of ethnic cleansing during the entire Yugoslav conflict. Only this time, the ethnic cleansing would be done with the
tacit approval and guidance of the US government and media.
As a client state of the US, a Balkan banana republic, the ''fledgling democracy'' of Croatia need not be concerned with the human rights of the Krajina Serbs. Accordingly, the Croat forces wasted no time in completely cleansing the majority Serbian Krajina region, butchering those elderly Serbs that chose to remain.
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