The following detailed article from the New York Times shows a detailed
history of the events leading up to the actions by NATO. It reveals a
partially true concern that Bill Clinton was distracted by the other crisis
in his life that he may not have thought clearly about Kosovo. This is
only very partially true, for Clinton created some of the other crisis' that
were distracting him, such as his "Wag the Dog" airstrikes against
Afghanistan and the Sudan.
Soon we shall expect to hear spin that the Republicans are the ones to blame,
because they unfairly brought about the impeachment trial that distracted the
President from clear thinking on Kosovo. This spin will be needed in order
to lift Al Gore's Poll ratings to defeat Bush.
I finished the book "All Too Human" By George Stephanopoulos several weeks
ago.
George, like Monica Lewinski, reveals that he is on medication.
I have a theory about a few bright, intelligent people who must take
medication. I think that this can be a byproduct of living a life without
conscience, hurting people and the overwhelming subconscious feelings of
guilt that result. When morality is relative, the chances are increased
that other people get hurt, because relativistic morality can easily be made
selfish at other people's painful expense.
If half of the stuff in the book were true, the President is a pathological
Liar and cannot be trusted on ANY matter private or public.
I am almost finished with Michael Isikoff's book "Uncovering Clinton", once
again, the President is a "creep" if just half of the stories are true. I
don't think there are any alibis for the President that can excuse him now
from any of this. Later in the book is a section that discusses one of
Clinton's "consenting" affairs. The woman described Clinton as biting her
lip. Sound familiar? That is an independant MO for Clinton seperate from
the Juanita Broadrick Rape, where Clinton almost bit her lip off, and she was
bleeding. What kind of animal is Bill Clinton? Anyone who does this to
women should be in Prison cutting Potatos in the Prison Kitchen.
I finished Gary Aldrich's book "Unlimited Access" today. Now that book was
out around the time of TWA 800. It has an unflattering view of
Stephanopoulos. Aldrich interviewed many White House Staff for the Security
Pass procedures. He found most of the appointees to be hostile toward his
interviews as an FBI special Agent. One of the few non-hostile White House
staff was Vincent Foster. The book centers around the deliberate Security
failures surrounding the White house staff during the first Clinton term.
This is one of the best books to read if one wishes to understand the
destruction of the FBI. The FBI before Bill Clinton was different from the
FBI after Clinton's first term finished it. It helped me to understand what
the FBI had become before they came for me here in Portland, Oregon in
February 1997 regarding TWA 800. I now understood the change, that the FBI
was no longer the glamourized version that I grew up with, on TV in the
sixties, when I liked them. They had become something much more politicized
and less objective and rational. Aldrich discusses some of the politics,
the power struggles, the failures of the FBI to investigate Vince Foster's
death.
Aldrich also reveals Hillary Clinton to be a dreadful and evil woman, she
fought to get Al Gore's office space after they were elected. She wanted to
be a form of vice-president, with Gore as merely a figurehead. She and Bill
faught and yelled at one another fairly regularly. The book confirms
seperately from the Arkansas Troopers that Hillary and Vince Foster once had
an affair. It confirms that Bill Clinton still slipped away from the White
House, as he did as Governor of Arkansas, to a local hotel for nuptial visits
with women.
I think that the liberal argument that private life does not effect public
life is a failure. A man whose conscience is hardened enough not to a feel
a victim's pain, from personal lies, rape, cheating on the wife etc, will not
feel a victim's pain if he makes a decision to cover up 230 deaths (TWA 800)
or 800, 000 deaths Rwanda.
A man's conscience is a delicate thing. It must be guarded by
non-relativistic moral convictions. When it is suppressed, Hitler can be
created, and medication may be required, making the cycles even worse.
William Jefferson Clinton is responsible for the coverup of TWA 800 and 230
dead people, there is no doubt in my mind. This is how he operates.
Presently the Kosovo war is being financed by Social Security monies. Those
promises several weeks ago by Bill Clinton about a Budget Surpluses that
could payoff Social Security are now utter nonesense.
Will there now be monies for Y2K emergencies?
Clinton will not be able to maneuver to delay catastrophe toward the future
always, like criminals in the streets, this stuff catches up with you
eventually. There is no joy to this. I suspect that it won't be pretty
either, Hitler did suicide in a bunker, and Mussilini's body was hung by
rioters on piano wire in the streets.
The next President will need to be tough, because there will need to be lots
of rebuilding to do. Any Clinton appointee should be replaced, with no
mercy.
Best Regards,
Marshall Houston
Portland, Oregon
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/kospol.htm
ELAINE SCIOLINO and ETHAN BRONNER, "How a President, Distracted by
Scandal, Entered Balkan War," New York Times, April 18, 1999
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On Jan. 19, President Clinton's top aides met in the Situation Room in
the White House basement to hear a fateful new plan for an autonomous
Kosovo from Madeleine K. Albright, the Secretary of State. NATO, she
urged, should use the threat of air strikes on Yugoslavia to force a
peace agreement to be monitored by the alliance's ground troops.
The President, who had other matters on his mind, was not there. His
lawyers were starting their arguments on the Senate floor against his
removal from office. That night he was to deliver his State of the Union
address.
Nearly 5,000 miles away, in Belgrade, Gen. Wesley K. Clark, the NATO
commander, and Gen. Klaus Naumann, chairman of the NATO military
council, were sitting with President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia.
They came brandishing a plastic portfolio of color photographs
documenting a massacre of Albanians three days earlier by Serbian
security forces in the Kosovo town of Racak.
They also came with threats of NATO air strikes.
This was far from their first encounter with the Serbian leader, but
this time, they recalled, they found a newly hardened man with a bunker
mentality. ........(read rest of long article at the above URL)
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http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/04/19/timfgnkos02002.html?1124027
A towering cloud of toxic gases looms over Belgrade after warplanes, on
the 25th night of the Nato onslaught, hit a petrochemicals plant in the
northern outskirts of the city
Photograph: PETAR KUJUNDZIC/REUTERS
Poison cloud engulfs Belgrade
AN ecological disaster was unfolding yesterday after Nato bombed a
combined petrochemicals, fertiliser and refinery complex on the banks of
the Danube in the northern outskirts of Belgrade.
A series of detonations that shook the whole city early yesterday sent a
toxic cloud of smoke and gas hundreds of feet into the night sky. In the
dawn the choking cloud could be seen spreading over the entire northern
skyline.
Among the cocktail of chemicals billowing over hundreds of thousands of
homes were the toxic gas phosgene, chlorine and hydrochloric acid.
Workers at the industrial complex in Pancevo panicked and decided to
release tons of ethylene dichloride, a carcinogen, into the Danube,
rather than risk seeing it blown up.
At least three missile strikes left large areas of the plant crippled
and oil and petrol from the damaged refinery area flowed into the river,
forming slicks up to 12 miles long. Temperatures in the collapsing plant
were said to have risen to more than 1,000C. Asked about the hazard from
chemical smoke, Nato said there was "a lot more smoke coming from
burning villages in Kosovo".
Belgrade scientists told people to stay indoors and to avoid any fish
caught in the Danube. They said pollution would spread downstream to
Romania and Bulgaria and then into the Black Sea.
At least 50 residents of Pancevo were reported suffering from poisoning
and the Health Ministry was struggling to find gas masks to distribute
in the surrounding areas. residents were told to breathe through scarves
soaked in sodium bicarbonate as a precaution against showers of nitric
acid.
Thirteen hours after the first explosions, the Yugoslav Army took
journalists to Pancevo just as a thunderstorm broke over the complex.
As the director tried to hold a press conference in the fertiliser
plant's headquarters offices, panes of glass and other fixtures loosened
by the earlier explosions began falling from the building. The driving
rain and gusts of wind only increased the smoke and brought the toxic
gases down from the higher levels of the atmosphere. "This plant is 37
years old and this is our worst nightmare," said Miralem Dzindo. " By
taking away our fertiliser they stop us growing food, and then they try
to poison us as well." He rejected journalists' questions about chemical
weapons, saying that the plant was strictly non-military.
Mr Dzindo said an airstrike three nights ago had grazed a tank
containing 20,000 tons of liquid ammonia. If that had gone up in flames,
he said, much of Belgrade would have been poisoned. Against the roar of
thunder and the crackle of the burning oil refinery, the Serbian Ecology
Minister, Dragoljub Jelovic, accused Nato of trying to destroy the whole
Yugoslav environment. He said the pollution in the Danube and in the
atmosphere over Belgrade "knows no frontiers" and he warned neighbouring
countries that the poison clouds could soon be with them.
A westerly wind had taken the worst of the gases away from Belgrade, he
said, but he predicted that they could soon reach Romania.
Disaster will be avoided, as long as the cloud remains several hundred
feet high (Dr Thomas Stuttaford writes). However, if the wind changes,
and if it rains so that the gases are dissolved in solutions which can
be deposited and inhaled, the old, very young and those with chest
diseases might suffer.
The usual advice is to keep indoors with the windows shut, wearing a
mask, and after the danger has passed to wash all clothes that were
being worn, and to flush down any contaminated person's skin with soapy
water.
Copyright 1999 Times Newspapers Ltd. This service is provided on Times
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April 19 1999 BALKANS WAR
Brown orders audit of war costs
BY ROLAND WATSON, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
GORDON BROWN has ordered a running audit of the "fantastically
uncertain" cost of the conflict in Kosovo amid fears that it could
exhaust the Treasury reserves set aside for emergencies.
Teams of officials from four government departments are working
full-time on estimates of the final total and its impact on the public
account. Although the Treasury insists that all the scenarios
investigated remain within the Government's public spending arithmetic,
there are concerns that a prolonged campaign may force a rethink.
Defence analysts say the war has so far cost Britain an extra �50
million on top of the Ministry of Defence's day-to-day running costs.
Paul Beaver, a spokesman for Jane's Defence, said that the cost was
currently running at about �2 million a day, although that would soon
rise towards �3 million as more troops and equipment were moved to the
region. "They certainly weren't planning on having this long a war and
the costs will only accelerate," he said.
Those estimates relate purely to the military action and do not take
into account Britain's role in the current humanitarian effort.
Government officials concede that if Britain does start to take in large
numbers of refugees from the region, the cost to the Exchequer will
rocket.
There is �1.2 billion in this year's contingency fund, but as one
Treasury official stated, even in peacetime "the reserves have a
tendency to be spent". The three-month Gulf War cost Britain �2.35
billion.
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http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-18-1
999/0000911647&EDATE=
Newsweek: Kosovo News: NATO Has 'Degraded' Only one Third of Yugoslav
Military;
Intelligence Reports Show Serbs Can Reconstitute Much of Their Command and
Control Structure Every 24 Hours
'Bombing Has Distinct Limitations,' Says Former Defense Secretary McNamara
NEW YORK, April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Intelligence reports read to Newsweek
say the Serbs are capable of reconstituting much of their command and control
structure every 24 hours -- mainly in bunkers, which also house the Yugoslav
high command. The result, Pentagon officials say, is that NATO has "degraded"
only one third of the Yugoslav military. The story, part of Newsweek's
April 26, 1999 coverage of Kosovo (on newsstands Monday, April 19), also
reports the following:
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990417/HSSA006 )
-- By late last week, there were signs the administration was at least
planning for a ground war, if only to pre-empt a move by another NATO ally at
next week's 50th-anniversary summit in Washington. The event, which was to
have been a celebration, promises to bring out more strains. Sources tell
Newsweek that French President Jacques Chirac is considering calling for a
NATO debate on ground troops.
-- Christopher Hill, the U.S. ambassador to Macedonia, thinks that
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic could be looking to put an end to the
war in Kosovo. "At any given moment he's a guy making more calculations than
a supercomputer," he tells Newsweek. "I'm sure he is considering how to get
out of this."
-- Thousands of new recruits and increased funding (which many suspect
comes, in part, through illegal means) are breathing new life into the
formerly ragtag Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Last week, a Newsweek reporter
who entered a KLA training camp in Albania saw stockpiles of new weaponry and
units running in the hills and learning to fire cannons, artillery and AK-47s.
"The training is fast and hard," said a recruit from Germany named Besim,
resting beside his white military tent. "I'm always tired. I don't know when
I'll be ready."
KLA guerrilla commanders call NATO officials by satellite phone to ID
targets, say KLA sources. But NATO officials say they don't act on the tips
because "that would make [the KLA] a partner."
-- In an interview with Newsweek, former defense secretary Robert
McNamara, coauthor of "Argument Without End," a new book about the mistakes of
Vietnam, warns that "Bombing has distinct limitations. I don't think the
current generation -- either in the capital or in the country at large --
fully understands that."
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Sunday April 18, 7:13 AM (EST)
UK Paper: NATO Ready to Invade Kosovo in May
LONDON (April 18) XINHUA - NATO is making plans for a ground invasion of
Kosovo as early as the end of May, Britain's newspaper Observer said on
Sunday.
Some 80,000 troops had been earmarked for the operation and that some
American troops had already started training in Colorado, according to
the paper, which quoted senior sources in London and Washington as
saying that the accelerated timetable followed insistence by NATO's
political leaders that the bombing campaign against Yugoslavia must be
over within three months.
Referring to what it called a radical rethinking of NATO strategy, the
paper quoted one source as saying last week that "we are no longer
talking about simply sending peacekeeping troops into an entirely
permissive environment."
"We are talking about the use of ground forces in a way that would have
been complete taboo a month ago. That is sending troops in,
semi-opposed," the source said.
As NATO bombing campaign persists, there has been growing speculation
about the use of ground troops. On Saturday, however, British Prime
Minister Tony Blair said that a ground invasion was still not an option.
The paper Observer said planning for a limited ground campaign was being
rushed ahead, for an invasion force of between 75,000 and 80,000
soldiers to be preceded by an advance guard of 20,000 including
reconnaissance and special forces, mine sweeping and explosives experts.
An artillery and tank spearhead would then cut a narrow way into the
heart of Kosovo.
The paper quoted a U.S. official as saying the invasion could not take
place until the weather settled down and Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic's defenses were crippled further.
"Say, no sooner than six weeks but not necessarily later than two
months," the source said.
The report said that 8,000 troops had been earmarked to secure the
border between Albania and Kosovo with a further 200,000 needed to
secure Serbia's other borders with Bosnia, Hungary and Romania. Enditem
18/04/99 10:15 GM
