I don't agree with everything he says...
If Bob Kerrey Were a Serb...
http://www.exile.ru/116/babylon.php
to the high moral view of slavery. British ships had long dominated the slave
trade, and only in 1838 had slavery’s vestiges been abolished in the British
Empire. But England quickly forgot all this, just as they forgot that there
had been slave revolts in the West Indies and that economic factors had
hastened slavery’s end by making it less profitable. In their opinion,
slavery had come to an end throughout most of the world for one reason only:
British virtue. When London’s Albert Memorial was built in 1872, one of its
statues showed a young black African, naked except for some leaves over his
loins. The memorial’s inaugural handbook explained that he was a
‘representative of the uncivilised races’ listening to a European woman’s
teaching, and that the ‘broken chains at his feet refer to the part taken by
Great Britain in the emancipation of slaves.’” —Adam Hochschild, King
Leopold’s Ghost When America led NATO into bombing Serbia two years ago, it
was called by its supporters the world’s first “Humanitarian War”. The
NATO/State Department propaganda machine first spoke of tens of thousands of
Kosovars being raped and murdered; then 100,000; and finally, as people began
to question the war’s moral basis, the State Department claimed that “over
500,000 Albanians” had been slaughtered in a mass genocide. Everyone from
Michael Wines to Madeline Albright hailed the West’s mass bombing of a nearly
defenseless, destitute Balkan nation, on behalf of an even more defenseless,
destitute Balkan people in Kosovo, as a turning point in civilization and the
moral thread in human history. It was a triumph, in other words, of Our Good
Values over Their Bad Old Ways. As things turned out, even by the rigged
figures cooked up by the American-dominated International War Crimes Tribunal
for Yugoslavia, some 3,300 possible victims of Kosovo war crimes have been
discovered since NATO troops moved in. Some highly-placed pathologists hired
by the ICTY resigned due to allegations that they were being pressured to
find even more bodies. Moreover, that figure includes not only those Albanian
civilians murdered by Serbs during NATO’s bombing, but all victims (KLA
fighters, Serb civilians, missing Serb policemen) murdered for almost two
years prior to NATO bombing. Compare this to the nearly three million
Vietnamese slaughtered during America’s war there, the 70,000 Vietnamese
murdered as part of Operation Phoenix in which Bob Kerrey took part, or even
the hundreds of Serb civilians killed in NATO’s bombing campaign, and you
might start to ask yourself, “What fucking right do these people have to
condemn other people for war crimes?!” Bob Kerrey personally led a commando
raid on a defenseless village, slaughtered some twenty unarmed women and
children after rounding them up, hopped back in his PT-109 boat dripping gook
blood, and was subsequently awarded a Bronze Medal for heroism in battle.
When news of this came out, the very same elite that pushed for a war crimes
tribunal against the Serbs in order to “let the world know that we will never
tolerate these crimes again” came one and all to Kerrey’s defense, crying
that we should “blame the war, and not the individuals who took part in it.”
The United Nations set up the first post-World War Two war crimes tribunal,
the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, to prosecute
crimes against humanity (war crimes, genocide) committed in the
disintegrating Balkan nation. The first Serb convicted of committing war
crimes in Kosovo, Milos Jokic, 21, was sentenced last September to 20 years
in prison for killing one Albanian, ordering the murder of another and raping
an Albanian woman (prosecutors had initially wanted to charge him with
genocide (!), but he was only convicted of a lesser crime of “war crimes
against civilians”.) Everyone’s bogeyman, Slobodan Milosevic, was never
formally charged with genocide or crimes against humanity for his role in the
Bosnian war - mainly because he was one of the guarantors of the Richard
Holbrooke-orchestrated Dayton Accord. However, even as NATO bombs were
falling on Serbia, ICTY indicted Milosevic for genocide and crimes against
humanity for the suspected deaths of some 300-plus Albanians sighted by NATO
spy planes and verified by fleeing Albanians as victims of a massacre.
Kerrey, meanwhile, is the recipient of an unbelievable outpouring of sympathy
from not only the American press and elite, but from average Americans
spanning the talk radio spectrum. While NATO troops continue to comb the
Bosnian hills for war crimes suspects (two months ago, a tribunal sentenced a
Bosnian Croat to 25 years for “planning” an attack on a Bosnian Muslim
village on April 16, 1993, that “resulted in a massacre in which more than
100 people were murdered, including 32 women and 11 children”) and Colin
Powell and the U.S. Congress demand that Serbia hand Milosevic over to the
Hague even before the Serbs can try him for the innumerable crimes he
committed against his own people, Bob Kerrey has become a hero in America a
second time over. A hero for what? For having to relive the pain of
slaughtering 20 unarmed women and children, in a war that was, after all, not
his fault.
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