One of the more outspoken cyber activists wrote:
"It's morning in America; God is in heaven; the sun is shining; the creek is running; my lead goat, upon whose head I have affixed the cutest purple yarmulke, has his herd well along their pre-ordained route, as are we.
"The History Channel is killing Hitler, again, and on CNN amateur propagandists from NATO are straining to convince us that the dust on the high moral road can only be settled . . . by spraying it down with the blood of Serbian mothers and babies."
Two days ago, the New York Post disclosed in a front page story, headlined "Purple Heart Puzzle," that the Pentagon has ordered 9,000 Purple Heart medals from Graco Industries of Tomball, Texas, for delivery this fall. Purple Hearts are awarded to American soldiers wounded in combat.
George Will of the Washington Post had this to say May 27, 1999:
"The President, who has not stopped campaigning since he was in his twenties, confuses war, which is about the destruction of the enemy's forces, with modern politics, which is about inducing mood swings in mass audiences."
And also in the same column:
"Italy wants a bombing halt. Greece says Turkey's planes participating in the air war cannot cross Greek air space. Hungary says it will not be a staging ground for a ground attack. National Journal's James Kitfield reports on "passive resistance" within NATO at war. He says that early in the air war some governments of NATO members showed displeasure with certain target selections by flying their missions but refusing to release their ordnance, claiming mechanical or weather problems.
"And Germany vows to veto any NATO use of ground forces except in a "permissive" environment, meaning with Milosevic's permission. Perhaps, there is something to be said for ending the Twentieth Century worrying about German military reluctance. (...)
"The 'military campaign' may not be going exactly as planned, but postwar recovery will be a piece of cake. We will write a check.
"It is beyond parody; it is impervious to satire. In the midst of a war demonstrating, emphatically and redundantly, the fierce salience of religious and ethnic fevers, and the centuries-spanning durability of historical memories, Clinton, who evidently has not noticed the Twentieth Century, stands as the last economic determinist. His shallowness amazes. <end>
Lt. Gen. Tom Griffin USA wrote this:
"Now let's see here if I understand all this correctly. President Clinton has ordered our forces to engage an entrenched, politically motivated enemy, backed by the Russians, on their home ground, in a foreign civil war, in difficult terrain, with limited military objectives, bombing restrictions, boundary and operational restrictions, queasy allies, far across the ocean, with uncertain goals, without prior consultation with Congress, the potential for escalation, while limiting the forces at his disposal, and the majority of Americans opposed to or at least uncertain about the value of the action being worth American lives. So...just what was it that he was opposed to in Vietnam?"
And from France I got the following this morning from a friend:
Subject: Nuremberg trials boomerang
"I don't know if you receive or if you have time to sort out all the messages from Bob Djudjevic. But today there is one which is really most interesting for us revisionists: it is the part 4 of Bob's message of 'Day 67' of the war.
"I'm copying it for you hereafter.
"What is amazing about it is that so many people, at the time of the Nuremberg trials, wrote and said that those trials were disgraceful and that one day or another there was going to be a boomerang effect. And now comes the boomerang effect for the "American" government!
"And what is most amazing is the fact that the idea comes from a former prosecutor in Nuremberg! He must have swallowed that for fifty years!
(Then follows part of this post):
4. A Nuremberg Prosecutor: Charge the U.S. War Criminals, Too
WASHINGTON, May 23 - Walter Rockler, a Washington-based lawyer and a prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trial after WW II, said in a May 23 Chicago Tribune OpEd piece that, "those (like Bill Clinton) who live in glass houses should be careful about throwing stones."
"We have engaged in a flagrant military aggression, ceaselessly attacking a small country, primarily to demonstrate that we run the world," he said. The rationale offered by Clinton to justify this attack on a sovereign country, "does not lessen the culpability of the authors of this aggression."
In support of his judgment, this Washington lawyer cites a Nuremberg court order:
"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
At Nuremberg, the U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Robert Jackson, the head of the American prosecution staff, asserted that, "launching a war of aggression is a crime that no political or economic situation can justify."
To which Truth in Media's editor, Bob Djurdjevic, added the following:
"So if, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, off to the gallows with the CCCC killers - Clinton, Clark, Cohen and Chirac? Along the ABC's of hate and warmongering - Albright, Blair and Cook, not to mention the rest of the NATO war criminals?
"Well, the Nuremberg prosecutor didn't quite go as far as to name all the NATO leaders who should be charged with war crimes, but he did say that, "in addition to shredding the U.N. Charter and perverting the purpose of NATO, Clinton has already violated at least two provisions of the United States Constitution" (Article I, Section 8 and Article VI.
"In other words, the only way for Clinton to weasel out of the heap of legal trouble he is already in, is to keep committing more crimes. Against the Constitution and the American people. If we, the People, let him. With our silence and acquiescence." <end>
And, finally, one of the hundreds of nameless ZGram readers, who sent me the following:
"There must be hundreds of thousands of people that, just given the opportunity will wonder who murdered their kinsmen, and why the deafening background noise but no answers."
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"Since the beginning of the conflict, the Israelis and the Jews in the Diaspora have behaved admirably with respect to humanitarian aid for the Kosovars. The State of Israel dispatched medical teams to the area and sent medications, food, clothing...Israel even welcomed several hundred Muslim Kosovar refugees. It was symbolic perhaps, but it had to be done."
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor Extraordinaire
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