Hillary Clinton on Kosovo

[tyne]

I welcome the historic declaration of Kosova independence issued today in Pristina. I urge our friends and allies and around the world to join the United States and European Union countries in promptly recognizing an independent Kosova.

This is a historic step that will allow the people of Kosova to finally live in their own democratic state. It will allow Kosova and Serbia to finally put a difficult chapter in their history behind them and to move forward. Resolving this issue has taken too long and has held both of these proud peoples back from pursuing a better European and Euro-Atlantic future. It is time now for all of us to look ahead and to focus on the challenge of building an independent Kosova and supporting a democratic Serbia in an integrated Europe.

I want to underscore the need to avoid any violence or provocations in the days and weeks ahead. Kosovars and Serbs have seen too much violence and too many provocations in the past. It is time to focus on improving the lives of people living in both countries and the integration of these countries into the West.

In recognizing the independence of Kosova, I want to stress the high importance that I attach to full protection of the rights of all minorities in Kosova, especially the Serbs, and to safeguard Serbian cultural and religious heritage sites in Kosova. The international community must stand firm on these points.

I remain concerned about the deterioration of the situation in neighboring Bosnia and urge the Bush Administration to pay more attention to this issue, so that it does not once again become a major threat to European stability.

I regret that is has taken so long for us to reach this historic juncture and that the Bush Administration has not always given the issues of Kosova, Serbia's democratic future, and the Balkans the attention they deserve. This has helped contribute to the complicated and risky situation on the ground in the Balkans that we still face today. I look forward to working with the democratic leaders in this region and will once again make the full integration of the Western Balkans into Europe and the Euro-Atlantic community the priority it should be.
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/blog/

I really can't believe the woman

[rodeodance]

1. What is it that bothers you?--you said-I really can't believe the woman

I really can't believe the woman

[AlCzervik]

2. i think you need a hug.

:hug:

[LakeSamish706]

3. So Clinton has just given both Russia and China a direct slap in the head....

with her comments re: Kosova ... What a brilliant President she would make.. "NOT"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3187533

[dbackjon]

6. So we should base our foriegn policy on what makes China and Russia happy?

Stupid idea.

[LakeSamish706]

8. No one said that, but one doesn't have to make intimidating statements...

that you know full well will serverly piss both of these important countries off... But hey one can expect this from Hillary.

[dbackjon]

9. The only thing that she could have said that would not have pissed Russia and China off

Would be "I don't support Kosovo independence".



There was NOTHING intimidating about that statement. It was a well-crafted, thoughtful statement.


But hey, one can expect pissing and moaning about anything she does from Hill-haters.

[Adelante]

4. What can't you believe?

[dbackjon]

5. What would you have her say?

The United States, for the past 10 years, has supported Kosovo from Genocide. This has been, and continues to be the right position.


Her statement was 100% correct, and I hope that Obama issues a similar one.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

7. Hillary on Kosovo: "I urged him to bomb."

Tomorrow's Neocon Today

Why Clinton II wouldn't offer much change from Bush II

Radley Balko | October 19, 2007

... In fact, the L.A. Times reported last week that Clinton has refused to commit even to pulling U.S. troops from Iraq by 2013, which, if elected, would be the end of her first term. TV journalist Ted Koppel recently told NPR that Clinton has admitted the U.S. would still have troops in Iraq at the end of her second term.

The 1990s, remember, weren't exactly a decade of peace. Bill Clinton ordered more U.S. military interventions than any other post-WWII administration, and there's no reason to think any of them were over Hillary's protestations. She supported the U.S. military campaigns in Haiti, Kosovo, and Bosnia.

She once boasted that as the tension in Kosovo mounted,
she called her husband from her trip to Africa and, "I urged him to bomb."

http://www.reason.com/news/show/123103.html

[jillan]

10. To stop the genocide, and rape camps during Milosovec reign.

The one time we had helped to stop genocide, and people complain.