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MasterKalif -> RE: Clinton vs Bush (8/3/2006 11:06:53 PM)
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ORIGINAL: mstrj69
your numbers appear to take in only armaments and fuel, and does not include personnel cost nor food nor the original cost of the planes or ships, etc. As they say a good accountant can make any set of numbers say whatever he or she wants them to say. To me it is more the question why was serbia good and iraq bad. No matter the numbers or amount spent where.
Both were fiascos....the Iraq invasion was a bigger fiasco as nothing postive will come out of it, either for Iraq nor for the United States....specially long term.
In terms of Serbia, this country was demonized by the sayings and actions of its leader Milosevic, but he nor the country were "evil"...Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and many other ex-members of Yugoslavia were just as guilty as Serbia in terms of mass murders, genocide, extra-judicial killings, swapping population, displacement, refugees, etc. Why was Serbia chosen? simply because it chose to undo a long statute under which Kosovo, was an "autonomous" region with "special" rights....why should they be treated better or differently than the rest of the country? communist tyrant Marshall Tito did it to undercut ethnic Albanian unrest in the area. Milosevic revoked it, and together with some thuggery, the ethnic Albanians revolted and even were inviting neighboring Albania to intervene...hence the spiral of chaos and hatred between ethnic Serbs and ethnic Albanians. The US in its self righteous position waited until late in the game to enter, and did so at the cost of bombing Sarajevo, also killing innocent civilians. Clinton and Bush are worthless in this regard, and both are guilty of the same. Seems Americans have forgotten what the founding fathers stated that the US should leave the world alone and not impose on them, and likewise the world will let the US be.
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