Reply #186: but there you are again with your "misconceptions by the ... [View All]

[wyldwolf]

...mainstream media."

I suppose you have the REAL story?

...and from where? The unmainstream media?

you do not help regular people by bombing them and their state's infrastructure, reducing a historically strong economy to political and economic subordination. not to mention it went through NATO because it was not a humanitarian mission. Clinton and Clark (among others) were in violation of the UN charter. we all get after bush for pissing on the UN, but when someone points out that the Clinton admin did also..........

As for Yugoslavia, I suggest you read this post from a DU'er who has spent a great amount of time researching it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=586040

As for Clinton's actions in Kosovo, perhaps the people themselves there are misinformed by the "mainstream media?"

Thousands of ethnic Albanians lining the roads near Kosovo’s main airport waved flags and applauded when former US President Bill Clinton today for a brief visit.

Guarded by an armoured personnel carrier and NATO troops, Clinton’s motorcade streamed past cheering crowds through the ethnically divided province to the capital, Pristina, where thousands more had gathered.

Clinton was to address college students and receive an honorary degree.

He is adored by Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority, who credit the United States with leading the coalition that halted the brutal crackdown of Serb forces on ethnic Albanians seeking independence four years ago.

Of course, this story is out of Ireland... mainstream media?

http://archives.tcm.ie/breakingnews/2003/09/19/story114093.asp

Now, we both agreed that "one issue does not securely place someone firmly in one place on the political spectrum." Yet, you ignored the overwhelming good Clinton did economically for the middle and lower classes and still you hit with one issue - NAFTA - which was actually drafted and signed under Bush the first.

It isn't a matter of "flaming in defense of my heroes" but of defending them against people who would minimize the good they did because they somehow fail to meet a faction of the left's ideological purity.