McCain absolutely didn't know how to win Kosovo! | 8 comments (8 topical, 0 hidden)
Very misleading story! (none / 1)

I find it amusing that you folks define the KLA as some sort of Islamic organization on the basis from what the ultra-nationalistic Serbian website serbianna.com alleges. Very amusing indeed (or disturbing).

I also find it disturbing that the article titled "John McCain armed Kosovo Islamic terrorists" mentions nothing about such Islamic terrorists, again exemplifying how duped and lazy (copy/paste) you folks can be.

I would like to point out that the Kosovo issue for the United States has been bipartisan, meaning the United States (Bill Clinton) intervened in 1999 on behalf of the Kosovar Albanians to stop the ethnic cleansing being carried out by the Serbs and the United States (George W Bush) recognised Kosovo as an independent country this year.

 

P.S. The content of the YouTube video is quite different than this post. I would like to see a bit more consistency.

by unitedal on 07/27/2008 03:38:41 AM EST

Sorry that you seem to see the KLA as a holy cow. (none / 0)
You/ve totally missed the two points.

1. McCain said he knows how to win wars and used Kosovo as an example of a war that he supported that showed he knew how to win it. But the evidence of his own resolution trying to shame Clinton into adopting McCain's strategy of using ground troops failed and was voted down by a majority of both parties. Clinton's air-war strategy worked and McCain's ground war strategy wasn't even used. So how did McCain have anything to do with "winning" the Kosovo war.  I'm not dealing with whether the war was justified or not. that is another issue altogether. I'm only dealing with McCain's lies about winning wars. BTW, McCain didn't know how to win the Vietnam War either.

(2) The fact that Clinton and other also supproted the KLA is irrelevant to the point of whether McCAin supported them.  The KLA were the mujahadin of Albania.  The USA supported the Mujahadin terrorists of Afghanistan just like supporting the KLA of Albania. 

The KLA was involved in drug and women trafficking rings in Kosovo, and were funded by the criminal underworld of Central Europe.   Like all terrorist organizations the KLA also assassinated those civilians they caled "collaborators". They patterned themselves after the IRA.

"The Albanian Cartel: Filling the Crime Void", Jane's Intelligence Review, November 1995
"Drugs Money Linked to the Kosovo Rebels", The Times, London, 24 March 1999 

So sure, if you supported thieir claimed goal of Kosovo independence and overlooked their methods then you might be alarmed that they were called a "terrorist" organization. But my point is that supporting your favorite subversive military group whether they are freedom fighters or terrorists according to the alliegences of the day is not something for McCain to brag about as helping to win a war.  

If you think the KLA wasn't up to its ears in terrorist activities then you are the one who needs to dig a little deeper in your research.  Since the KLA was supported by the CIA and the British and German Secrete Services, I'm not surprized that some Americans believe the propaganda that they were just "freedom fighters."  (BTW, I bet you don't think that Mecahim Begin was a terrorist either.) 

by Gregory Wonderwheel on 07/28/2008 08:07:19 PM EST

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