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Rick,
In a similar vein, below is a short discourse I
posted on a board regarding the perfidious Shrub.
"President Bush yesterday expressed a
"renewed commitment to the NATO alliance" and said American troops will stay in
the Balkans until the international organization decides to remove them.
Continuing his move away from a campaign vow to tell the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization that keeping the peace in the troubled region is a European, not
American, responsibility, Mr. Bush yesterday said the United States is
"committed to NATO-led operations in Bosnia and Kosovo."
"You will hear me say loud
and clear in the Balkans: We came in together; we will leave together," Mr. Bush
told European reporters."
How remarkably disingenuous! Well, for
all those who said this was solely a Clintoonian debacle, sit back and watch as
Bush II picks up so ably (ineptly) where Bush I left off.
As I personally have pointed out on
numerous occasions, US INVOLVEMENT IN THE
BALKANS IS A CFR DRIVEN 'ADVENTURE'! Inasmuch as Bush I,
Clintoon and, presumably, Bush II are mere pawns of the
CFR/Bilderberger/Trilateralist cabal, there was no material difference (in
policy) between that of Bush I, Clintoon and Bush the Jr.
Bush II may well be, as a human being, a
better person than Clintoon and his harridan, however, in terms of foreign
policy there is no difference to be discerned.
Perhaps (though I doubt it seriously)
those who care about our foreign policy will NOW pay a bit more attention when
people say things like "Ever thought of NOT voting Republicrat?"
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Subject: Twist Our Arms, *Force* Us To Occupy
Another Balkan Country [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
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> [With the Unholy Trinity of Joe Biden, Richard Lugar
> and Wesley Clark clamoring for NATO occupation,
> there's little doubt how this one will play out: Just
> as intended, with the ever helpful KLA contingent
> performing on cue.]
>
> Bush Under Pressure on NATO Troops for Macedonia
>
> BRUSSELS, Jun 14, 2001 -- (Reuters) U.S. President
> George W. Bush came under pressure on Wednesday to
> back a greater NATO military role in the Macedonia
> crisis or stand back and watch his European allies
> take the initiative.
>
> The leaders of France and Britain, speaking at Bush's
> first, informal summit of the Atlantic alliance in
> Brussels, urged bolder action to halt a slide toward
> civil war in the former Yugoslav republic and avoid
> yet more bloodshed in the Balkans.
>
> They scrambled to smother resulting speculation that
> they were considering military intervention but
> diplomatic sources said a groundswell was building for
> more decisive action.
>
> Bush indicated this was not the signal the allies
> wanted to send the government of Macedonia -- a
> political remedy to the conflict between Slavs and
> minority ethnic Albanians, not a military bail-out,
> remained the alliance's goal, he said.
>
> To bolster a twin-track political and security plan by
> Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski, NATO Secretary
> General George Robertson and European Union foreign
> affairs chief Javier Solana were due in Skopje on
> Thursday to offer support.
>
> But some prominent U.S. figures urged military
> involvement led by the United States, implying it
> should not be undertaken by any European "coalition of
> the willing" ready to put troops on the ground to back
> Macedonia's limited security forces
>
> French President Jacques Chirac had told the summit
> NATO "must not preclude any form of action needed" to
> stop the conflict. He later said he was not "thinking
> of an eventual military action because for me that
> would be a last resort".
>
> Britain's Tony Blair told leaders it was "better to
> make preparations and to stabilize the situation
> rather than to wait and let the situation
> deteriorate". British sources also denied afterwards
> that Blair was suggesting intervention.
>
> France and Britain are the prime movers behind the
> European Union's plan to create its own rapid reaction
> military force.
>
> Bush seemed under pressure not only from the U.S.
> Senate, where there were calls for Washington to get
> involved, but also from London, Paris and Macedonia's
> NATO neighbor Greece.
>
> NATO sources said there was a "groundswell" for bolder
> action. But what form it might take had not been
> decided.
>
> "GIVE PEACE DEAL A CHANCE"
>
> "NATO must play a more visible and active role in
> helping the Macedonian government counter the
> insurgency there," Bush told fellow leaders of the
> alliance.
>
> At a news conference, however, he insisted this did
> not signify sending troops, especially before peace
> was established between ethnic Albanian guerrillas and
> government forces.
>
> "Most people believe there is still a political
> solution available before the troops are committed,"
> Bush said. "The sentiment I heard here was that
> there's still a possibility for a political
> settlement, a good possibility.
>
> "The idea of committing troops within Macedonia was
> one that most nations were troubled over. They want to
> see if we cannot achieve a political settlement
> first," the president said.
>
> In Washington, however, senators urged more U.S.
> engagement.
>
> "This country must increase its involvement. The
> stakes in Macedonia are simply too high for us to
> choose to play a secondary role," Senator Joe Biden, a
> Democrat, told a hearing.
>
> He said only the United States had "the military and
> political credibility with all ethnic groups to
> successfully manage and resolve the crisis in the
> Balkans".
>
> Senator Richard Lugar took a similar line. General
> Wesley Clark, NATO commander in the war over Kosovo in
> 1999, said NATO troops in Kosovo should move into
> Macedonia's conflict zone.
>
> "Even if there's a political agreement...it's going to
> take NATO backing and that's going to take U.S.
> leadership and U.S. commitment and no doubt U.S.
> troops on the ground to enable the Macedonian army to
> get into the areas where there has been fighting,"
> Clark told the hearing in written testimony.
>
> TALKING NOT SHOOTING
>
> In Brussels, NATO's Robertson emphasized the political
> track, saying there was "a good wind" behind
> Trajkovski's peace plan, which the coalition
> government agreed to on Tuesday.
>
> "We are not talking about other options," Robertson
> said.
>
> "What we need now is continuation of the existing
> ceasefire, recognition by the armed insurgents that
> the reform process they claim they are interested in
> can be achieved through democratic means and an
> international community that stands four-square behind
> the territorial integrity of that country," he said.
>
> Robertson later met U.S. Secretary of State Colin
> Powell at Solana's downtown office, along with Anna
> Lindh, the Swedish foreign minister representing the
> European Union presidency.
>
> "I think the Secretary summed it up by saying we need
> to create a momentum for President Trajkovski's peace
> plan, we need momentum for the political process and
> momentum for results from the party leaders'
> discussion that will be taking place in Macedonia,"
> State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said.
>
> Macedonian leaders, including ethnic Albanian members
> of the national unity government, were due to meet at
> Lake Ohrid on the Albanian border on Friday to decide
> on political reforms and a demilitarization and
> amnesty offer to the guerrillas.
>
> Diplomatic sources at NATO and the EU said that added
> "security support" for Macedonia could be provided by
> a "coalition of the willing" within NATO and could
> take the form of teams of advisers, their exact tasks
> unspecified.
>
> NATO officials stressed that the possibility of
> mounting a third Balkans peacekeeping mission,
> alongside those in Bosnia and Kosovo, had not been not
> discussed and no military plans for such a course,
> which could take months, had been ordered.
>
>
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