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(2,169 posts)Because the Kosovo bombing and invasion was a PNAC war. This is not a conspiracy theory, it is a fact.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030210080835/http://www.newamericancentury.org/balkans.htm
John Pilger (one of the few that knows what he's talking about when it comes to Kosovo) writes about it
Reminders of Kosovo
13 December 2004
Kosovo - the site of a genocide that never was - is now a violent "free market" in drugs and prostitution. What does this tell us about the likely outcome of the Iraq war?
http://johnpilger.com/articles/reminders-of-kosovo
Don't forget Yugoslavia
14 August 2008
The secrets of the crushing of Yugoslavia are emerging, telling us more about how the modern world is policed. The former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in The Hague, Carla Del Ponte, this year published her memoir The Hunt: Me and War Criminals. Largely ignored in Britain, the book reveals unpalatable truths about the west's intervention in Kosovo, which has echoes in the Caucasus
http://johnpilger.com/articles/don-t-forget-yugoslavia
The Bernie/Kosovo thing is almost a deal breaker but Bernie is THE ONLY HOPE (so far) for the working man. That's why I'm volunteering for him. No candidate is perfect- as we all are reminded of daily by supporters of other candidates. And Hillary is much more of a warmonger than Bernie. She supposedly was instrumental in getting Bill to start bombing in the first place.
And you don't "help" people by dropping bombs on Chinese Embassies, Nursing homes, Marketplaces, Bridges, Trains or TV stations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War#Casualties
Even Henry Kissinger said the US "Provoked" the war and the Rambouillet accords (changed at the last minute) were something no nation could sign on to.
The Rambouillet text, which called on Serbia to admit NATO troops throughout Yugoslavia, was a provocation, an excuse to start bombing. Rambouillet is not a document that any Serb could have accepted. It was a terrible diplomatic document that should never have been presented in that form.
Henry Kissinger, Daily Telegraph, June 28, 1999
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger
I'm not in love with Bernie- if a better candidate comes along I'll dump him like a used kleenex.
We all need to start treating these people like employees instead of "leaders".