In honor of the holiday, I post a couple of links to what anti-war.com thought of the Clinton's bombing of Belgrade. Notice that antiwar.com goes after Republican administrations and Democratic administrations in equal measure. This is from the time that we went after the Democrats. You can understand why bigoted partisans here hate antiwar.com so much. Just read this.

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Introduction:

Part 1

by Justin Raimondo

Editorial note: This is an excerpt from a pamphlet published in 1996, Into the Bosnian Quagmire: The Case Against U.S. Intervention in the Balkans. We republish it now, in successive installments, because the rise of Barack Obama as the putative Democratic presidential candidate augurs the rise of a new liberal internationalism – the very same sort of policy that led us to bomb Belgrade, one of the oldest cities in Europe, and paved the way for the establishment of the gangster state known as Kosovo.

This was deemed a "humanitarian intervention": we were told that the Serbs were "ethnically cleansing" the Kosovars from their own territory, and that tens of thousands had been slaughtered. As is the case with other more recent military actions, it all turned out to be a crock: the tens of thousands dead shrunk to a few thousand, including victims from both sides in what was, after all, a civil war.

Hillary Clinton recently had the nerve to call the Kosovo war an example of "how it should be done." If the near-complete emptying of Serbs from Kosovo and Bosnia, the burning of churches, and the establishment of a radical Muslim enclave in the heart of Europe is a Clintonian "success," then one has to wonder what failure would look like.

It isn't just Hillary, however, whose penchant for "humanitarian" interventionism poses a potential danger to peace. Barack Obama, too, has shown a weakness for this militaristic form of moral self-indulgence. He is surrounded by advisers of the "liberal internationalist" school, such as Samantha Power, who pines to send U.S. troops to Rwanda and criticized the Clintons for not dispatching troops to the Balkans fast enough.

It was the Kosovo incursion that set the stage for the Iraq invasion, from the rhetoric of "liberation" to the mechanics of "nation-building." Operation Allied Force had all the elements that were later developed to the max in Operation Enduring Freedom – an allied group that provided phony "intelligence," i.e., war propaganda, and had the same hubristic, hectoring style. Militant interventionists, such as John McCain, jumped on board the war bandwagon because they realized that a precedent had to be set in the post-Cold War world, an assertion of American hegemony.

Today, we are all paying the consequences.

- Justin Raimondo

part one:

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12874

part two:

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12895

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This series is a great history lesson for the forgetful here at UT. The fact that neo-cons went from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party when they decided that the Republican Party would make a better vehicle to start wars in the middle east is one to remember --- and there is much more. Have fun.

... is simply any given libertarian's definition of all other libertarians.

Postal workers go on a non-violent thinking rampage. The Right-Wing effort to get their grubby hoofs into a mail delivery systems, that's not needing major repared-fixed, barf!

Well. It has the hard working mailmen/ladies wondering who's hoofs to go barf on.

That's a lame cold crust thought. To privatize? O, so a CEO can have pizza dough?

Laocoon~ That's a legend from the past. Snake got punished. A snake was crushed!

The Libertarian delegates nominated a man who helped put people in jail for possession of drugs and seems to have no concept of property rights.

Kitt sings a lullaby, but who can soundly sleep? Soldiers bleed and innocent civilians die, and war's survivors grieve.

Sad, and war's within,

everywhere, O weep?

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I can't doze away and I postpone a planned 'getaway' to assimilate Nature's tranquility. Night hasn't turned into dawn yet, and with the Moon up there in a black sky... even here @ U.T. one senses the bleak, black, shadow persona... Well. Thanks Kitt. Often one will be full with a brooding bewilderment---a dear reader muses, "What can I do?"

A person should Not shut love up in the heart--a heart wonders.

I can't sleep.I break a vow to Not read U.T. on Memorial Day... [?].

Men and women of any country and the larger world must love.

MISHIGOSS..Mishima, Yuko. Gads. But No hara-kiri... Mishigoss!

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I guess everyone has read the flyers inside the Washington Post.

Discount Mattress Warehouses are open on 5/26 from 9-9. Sale.

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Trying to fathom the Memorial Day mattress blowout warehouse?

Trying to No hurry into the morticians for a sale that ends Monday?

No Mattress Sale Link? Today:~ Parades. Tributes. Remembrances.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial has a annual observance at 1:00...

Four new names added to the Wall will be read aloud. I may attend.

It's been a long time since I walked into a deep apex and thought.

A veteran can ponder what role to play on a death bed? O too late!

Maybe I should remain home. Attend a Potluck? Pinochle is a game.

I'll hope a shuffler deals queen of spades and the jack of diamonds!

Today I'm feeling a need for a pencil*eraser for a lame leg and idea!

I blame the nocturnal whip`poor`will. Peep. O 'Silly' lame-brain idea!.

In kindergarden, IMO, the 'show and tell' visuals were great classrooms.

If only a 'silly' lame idea would 'fly way' and dissipate into the night sky?

I may quietly sneak into the veteran gathering with my blue genes rolled?

Kitt? I'm Never that 'silly' ever-ever, Kitt. If I'm hauled to a jail for the gross legs....

Kitt? Visit me? Play a harmonica? Play a ukulele? Literally, Ukulele means "jumping flea"

`"off-topic".... Post a vigil to the DC Veterans Memorial, maybe there be some Rhubarb Pie?

"And the white Knight is talking backward."

Grace was just a kid. Amazing live rendition!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xhYk9PEmXA&feature=related