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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-03 12:19 AM
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19. Marshal Tito killed over 100,000
people shortly after WWII, and that shut most of the opposition up. In fact Milosevic turned Clark into a hawk by saying he would do to the Muslims what the Titoists had done in 1946 to the Muslims in a certain area--kill them all.

Wes Clark commanded an effort to stop the serb military. He was only allowed to use air power. He did the best job he could, minimized civilian casualties (which were very low for a 78 day bombing campaign--single air raids in WWII caused more casualties--like the 3 day German raid on Belgrade in 1941 which killed 18,000--many times more than in the 1999 Kosovo campaign)

What civilian targets did Clark order to be hit? He had a legal team that advised him which targets were allowed to be hit under the Geneva convention and other international laws. He vetoed many strikes on many things because they could not be justified as 'pure' military targets.

The NATO countries worked very hard to prevent casulaties..
And who said Clark is a big buisness candidate? His views are classic liberal views, and I like his views alot. They are no way right wing--he is a progressive in a military uniform.
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