These American air pirates, covered in Serbian blood to the
gills, are getting decorated by the descendants of the Congressmen,
who awarded the US Army howitzer crew, that mowed hundreds
of the Indian women and children, fleeing in the deep snow, at
the Wounded Knee Creek in 1892.
The monsters of Washington, and the graduates from the West Point
training grounds for the super-butchers, have been together hoisting
the Butcher Apron, dubbed "The Old Glory" for the innocent students
of the American history, from Day One to these very days of invasion
of our country.
Tika Jankovic
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miroslav Antic [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 2:49 PM
> To: SNN; BALKAN; YAHOO
> Cc: Sin; Sorabia@Yahoogroups. Com; NSP; HoHumHuck
> Subject: [NSP] Army Can't Explain How Gen. Clark Got Kosovo Campaign
> Medal Waiver
>
>
> Army Can't Explain How Gen. Clark Got Kosovo Campaign Medal Waiver
>
>
> European Stars and Stripes
> June 16, 2001
>
> Army Can't Explain How Gen. Clark Got Kosovo Campaign Medal Waiver
>
> By Jon R. Anderson, Stars and Stripes
>
> The Army is at a loss to explain who granted a waiver awarding retired
> Gen.
> Wesley Clark the Kosovo Campaign Medal.
>
> After four months of repeated queries, Army officials say they're still
> not
> sure who approved the medal.
>
> Privately, officials say, they believe former Defense Secretary William
> Cohen approved the award, but have been unable to find
> the requisite "paper trail" for such awards to make sure.
>
> Cohen was not available for comment Friday.
>
> One senior Pentagon official speculated Clark may have been given the
> medal
> "as a memento or token" without actually being
> "awarded" the campaign ribbon.
>
> The Army says no way.
>
> "Nowhere in the military do we hand out awards as mementos," said Col.
> Stephanie Hoehne, Clark's former aide and now a
> top Army spokeswoman.
>
> "They are earned and they are awarded. When your boss pins an award on
> your
> chest, that's 'being awarded.'"
>
> Citing how paperwork sometimes gets misplaced or forgotten after verbal
> approval for an award is given, Hoehne said, "I'm
> not surprised it didn't make it into his records, if that's the case."
>
> That he needed a waiver at all has been a sticky issue for top officials
> who
> have been wrestling for more than a year with how
> to fix controversial criteria for the medal that has left thousands of
> troops who directly supported the 1999 air campaign
> unrecognized.
>
> Under rules for the medal established by the Pentagon, only those who
> served
> in and around the Balkans are eligible for the
> decoration.
>
> Service members must have served at least 30 consecutive days in the
> combat
> zone or 60 non-consecutive days traveling in and
> out of it.
>
> With Clark directing the 78-day air campaign mostly from his headquarters
> in
> Mons, Belgium, he and his staff - not to
> mention thousands of troops supporting the effort from bases throughout
> Europe and the United States - were left ineligible.
>
> According to European Command officials, Clark clearly did not meet the
> criteria and they were surprised to learn he had been
> awarded the medal last year.
>
> In fact, Clark received the very first of the newly minted medals during
> his
> retirement ceremony June 23, 2000, presided over
> by Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki.
>
> For his part, Clark told Stars and Stripes in February that he had no idea
> that he had needed a waiver and said that the medal
> was "never meant to be a danger- or location-based award, but a
> service-based award."
>
> STOP NOVOM SVETSKOM PORETKU
>
STOP NOVOM SVETSKOM PORETKU
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