-Caveat Lector-
From Waco to Kosovo
by Thomas Fleming
http://www.inwave.com/~webmastr/main.html
http://www.inwave.com/~webmastr/Kosovo052499.html
When Janet Reno sent in the FBI to fry the women and children in
the Branch Davidian home, I was in Italy covering the Lega Nord.
Stunned by what I read in the Italian press, I told my friends
that a turning-point in American history had been reached: if t
he American people did not rise up and throw the rascals out, if
Janet Reno and her colleagues were not put on trial for murder,
there would be no hope of restoring the republic. The Italians
were not shocked by my remarks: they assumed the worst.
Intelligent Europeans were already learning to fear the violence
of the new American empire and many people who knew the truth of
what the US did in Bosnia compared US airstrikes with Waco.
But Bosnia was nothing compared with Kosovo, where every day NATO
airstrik es are taking out power plants, bombing schools and
hospitals, and murdering civilians. When the news is finally
reported, the Julius Streichers of the regime, Jamie Shea and
Jamie Rubin, come on television to express regret for the
incident. Honest journ a lists, like Charley Reese on the right
and Alex Cockburn on the left, have denounced NATO aggression
from the beginning, and in the recent number of "Counter-Punch,"
Cockburn and his partner, Jeffrey St. Clair, report on a grisly
connection between Waco and Kosovo: the sinister NATO commander,
Wesley Clark. During the Waco stand-off, apparently, Governor
Anne Richards asked Clark, who was then commander of Ft. Hood,
for advice. The answer came through his subordinates: take out
the leader. Cockburn and St. Clair comment:
Certainly the Waco onslaught bears characteristics
typical of Gen. Wesley Clark: the eagerness to take out
the leader (viz., the Clark-ordered bombing of
Milosevich's private residence); the utter disregard for
the lives of innocent men, women, and children,; the
arrogant miscalculations about the effects of force;
disregard for law, whether of the Posse Comitatus Act
governing military actions within the United States or,
abroad, the purview of the Nuremberg laws on war
crimes and attacks on civilians.
Speaking of the bombing the presidential residence of Slobodan
Milosevic: As our government must have known, neither Milosevic
nor his government actually owned the house. It belongs to
Dragomir Acovic, a leading Serb architect who happens t o be
royalist, an anti-Communist, and a bitter opponent of the
Milosevic government. The suit to recover his property had been
working its way through the Yugoslav courts, but it seems
pointless now. In the first week of the bombing, I asked Mr.
Acovic to respond to Clinton's statement that he was not making
war on the people of Yugoslavia but only against Milosevic. He
said his answer was not appropriate for polite company.
The Arkansas Mafia's contempt for international law was
underscored by an article in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE, Monday, May 10,
1999, by a former Nuremberg prosecutor, Walter Rockler:
For the United States, alias "NATO," the planning and
launching of this war by the president heightens the
abuse and undermining of warmaking authority under
the Constitution.... The bombing war also violates and
shreds the basic provisions of the United Nations
Charter and other conventions and treaties; the attack on
Yugoslavia constitutes the most brazen international
aggression since the Nazis attacked Poland to prevent
"Polish atrocities" against Germans. The United States
has discarded pretensions to international legality and
decency, and embarked on a course of raw imperialism
run amok.
Rockler goes on to contrast our alleged concern for human rights
with the fact that "we dropped twice as many bombs on Vietnam as
all the countries involved in World War II dropped on each
other," killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in the
process. We went on to sponsor and train local armies and death
squads in Central America and saw nothing wrong [i.e. aided and
abetted] the Croat slaughter and expulsion of 200,000 Serbs from
the Krajina area."
Thomas Fleming
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