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[QUOTE]Originally posted by DT: [QB] I like to quote those numbers for many reasons. Chief amongst those is to illustrate how we were manipulated. 100,000 we were told. So how did we lose 97,000? It also serves to demonstrate the hypocrisy. Are 3,000 Albanians worth more than 100,000 Kurds or 20,000 Columbians or 5,000 Tamils or 50,000 Chechens? Moreover, numbers do matter. If we had an accurate count of how many Vietnamese "we" killed, would it surpass that? There is a point where casulaties of war turn into genocide. This isn't a numbers game, this is a judgement call. A small percentage of a population being shot, by paramilitary organizations, is not genocide. Not by the dictionary or connatative definition. Genocide is rounding up of mass groups of people to be interned and shot or burned. Genocide is sealing the border's of a country after hauling out all the food. Genocide is when 90% of a population is exterminated. (I know what you're going to counter with is the arguement that "well, we had to stop Milosevic before that point" to which I will counter with "The small military incursion into Kosovo is a farther cry from genocide than was rounding up the Japanese to put into internment camps, which could've turned into genocide with but the stroke of a pen" so let's not go there) Finally, genocide is the destruction of an entire indigenous population through disease, guns, and destroying their source of food. (if you're wondering, I named Nazi Germany, Stalinist Ukraine, Occupied Poland, and the Native Americans) If you wish to stop "other Kosovos" from occuring, look to Turkey and the Kurds, look to Australia and the Aborigines, look to Sri Lanka and the Tamils, look to Columbia and the FARC supporters, look to Mexico and the Mayan Indians, look to Russia and the Chechens. Slobo Milosevic is an awful, awful man. But he's no worse than Tudjman in Croatia, who the US actively supports. If you doubt me, just ask the Krajina Serbs. Well, you can't. And soon, you won't be able to ask the Kosovo Serbs. Thus the ancient riddle, if a Serb screams while he dies, does he make a sound? (apparently the Nazis the Serbs killed DID make sounds) Let me leave you all with one last thought. Is it not slightly hypocritical that the man who commands KFOR, and would've commanded a ground invasion to, supposedly, stop an ethnic cleansing against the Kosovo Albanians brought about by their legally recognized rulers who claim to be stopping a terrorist organization, was the same man who was second in command of British troops in Derry on Bloody Sunday? Something to think about. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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