If according to Geofrrey Corn the targets are always military, that the ethnic cleansing of Serbs,250 000 was not illegal, if the collateral damage isnot contrary to military laws,and "the civilian victims" are not "such things", then why did USA make such a fuss about Bosnia and abpve all, about Kosovo. The Serbian army never bombed civilian, but only military, terrorist targets,Albanians were not ethnicaly cleansed like drunken US general Walker pretended, but left voluntarly the combat zones, and there were no victims except those bombed by the NATO.
According to G.Corns logics the 9/11, and WTC was not a terrorist act but only destroying of military targets, and the victims were only the collateral damage, also according to G.Corn, a not illegal thing. So, if US government and the international community accept his statements, then Serbia should and have a legal right to get back her territory and send Albanians elsewhere. That is at least what G. Corn confirms in his statement. 2009/9/13 Alexander Stojsic <stoj...@cox.net> > *No such thing as civilian target, says U.S. expert* > > 13 September 2009 | 13:03 | Source: FoNet, SENSE > > *THE HAGUE -- **A U.S. military expert, testifying for the defense of Ante > Gotovina, told the Hague judges this week that "there is no such thing as a > civilian target". > > *Geoffrey Corn, described by news agencies as "a U.S. colonel", testified > on behalf of the former Croatian general, accused of war crimes against Serb > civilians, to say that "targets are always military". > > For this reason, Corn sees Gotovina's order to place Serb towns under fire > as merely a wrong formulation by one of his administrative staff, since, > according to him, "Gotovina obviously meant hitting exclusively military > targets". > > The Hague prosecution claims that Gotovina should not have allowed > artillery to fire on urban areas, and that the dead civilians are proof of > the crime and of the joint criminal enterprise, media in Zagreb, Croatia, > are reporting. > > Corn responded to this by saying: "Collateral victims are not prohibited > nor are they a crime, unfortunately they are common in war." > > The American witness said that "the fact is there are such victims, > especially when the enemy is defending from urban areas". > > "What civilian targets, there's no such thing, targets are always > military," reports say Corn told he panel of judges, and went on to explain > that it is always up to military commanders to appraise whether the expected > military gains would outweigh possible civilian losses. > > He likened the August 1995 Croatian military onslaught against ethnic Serb > areas, known as Operation Storm, to the 1999 NATO attacks on Serbia, saying > that orders to shell targets in the Krajina towns of Knin, Obrovac, Gračac > and Drvar were comparable to NATO's attacks, carried out with hundreds of > cruise missiles and bombs, against Belgrade. > > The witness went on to comment on the transcripts of former Croatian > President Franjo Tuđman's Brioni meeting with the top military and police > officials on July 31, 1995. > > Those remarks, Corn said, were "schizophrenic, since on the one hand, he > was trying to figure out how to expel Serb civilians, and on the other, he > didn’t want to draw criticism from the international community". > > But Sense news agency reminds that the prosecution claimed that Tuđman's > address "was not schizophrenic at all, as he had actually planned to > reconcile those two things: to expel the Serbs from Krajina and create the > illusion that their human rights were respected in the eyes of the > international community". > > To corroborate this, the prosecution showed a part of the transcript where > the Croatian president asks for leaflets to be spread among the civilians in > Krajina with a description of escape routes towards Serbia, guaranteeing > their "so-called human rights" at the same time. > > But according to Corn, this is no proof that Gotovina agreed to violate the > provisions of the international law of war. > > "It was not the first time in the history of warfare for the highest > political figure in a state to put pressure on the army to do something, > only to have the military commanders find a way around it in practice," the > witness said. > > The American also concluded that Gotovina was "trying to calm the president > all the time", telling him, "You have presented the strategic aims, I am the > operative commander, allow me to make my plans to defeat the enemy, don't > worry, I can defeat the enemy." > > He also told the court that "civilians departing" – in the case of > Operation Storm some 250,000 Serbs were expelled from their homes – is not > illegal. > > "It is common, just as the effect is has on the enemy," said Corn, who > served as special assistant for law of war matters to the U.S. Army Judge > Advocate General. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
