Reply #10: am still trying to get a response to this [View All]

[pippin]

posted this on another thread but will ask again for a response:

First: every time someone asks about Clark's role in Kosovo , Clark supporters will say "disregard the sources because it's coming from the right." and here is where I think the American public knows very little about what went on or how Clark figured in this US invovlement abroad.

There was, for instance, a war crimes tribunal:

http://www.iacenter.org/warcrime/wct2000.htm

There were sixteen judges from different countries. The two from the US were:
"Martha Grevatt--United States--National Secretary of the AFL-CIO for Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans Labor Organization called Pride at Work, and active in the United Auto Workers. " and,

"John Black--United States--retired President of the Health and Hospital Workers Union in Pennsylvania, responsible for bringing many thousands of hospital workers into the union. As a teenager in Germany he was active in the anti-Nazi underground resistance" who don't sound like right wing conservatives to me.

"Further, one of the two prosecutors was:
Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general and founder of the International Action Center." This Clark is currently at the center of the Impeach Bush Movement.

One of the few journals that even carried the story of the tribunal was Counterpunch--edited by Alexander Cockburn--who is certain neither republican nor right wing.

Clark was commander of the NATO forces and he said very recently in an interview that there were no casualties. I am not supporting the following thread in any way Clark supporters as I don't know who Mark Jones is, but the following seems to suggest that there were casualties:

"NATO planners not only knowingly killed
civilians, but deliberately set out to do so." He points specifically to the
bombing of the Grdelica and Varvarin Bridges (on April 12 and May 20) and
the strikes on the Nis marketplace on May 7."

http://csf.colorado.edu/forums/m-fem/2000/msg00462.html

Even as we now protest the obscenity of our invovlement in Iraq, I think it would be incautious of any responsible Democrat not to try and get to the bottom of what went on, and what Clark's role was in Yugoslavia.

P.S. I haven't decided on which candidate to support. i hope to make an informed decision when the time comes.