From: cdhart@laurie.net (Carolyn Hart)
Subject: SNET: [piml] [Fwd: April 11 column -- war with Serbia]
Date: 10 Apr 1999 06:42:10 -0400
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Vin Suprynowicz wrote:
> 
> Editors: euphemisms in parentheses are used to replace President Clinton's
> reported obscene language in paragraphs 11, 12, and 15. If you would prefer
> to re-insert the president's original reported obscenities, Mountain Media
> will provide them on request. Just send a message to vin@lvrj.com,
> specifying "Please send me the president's four bad words."
> 
>     FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA
>     FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED APRIL 11, 1999
>     THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz
>     Why the United States is at war with Serbia
> 
>     What have the Serbs ever done to hurt us, or endanger "American
> security?" Nothing anyone can think of.
> 
>   The Serbs sacrificed bravely to block the Turks from enveloping all
> southern Europe 500 years ago. They think we should remember. They also did
> a good job of bleeding dry a fairly astonishing number of German divisions
> from 1940 to 1945, thus indirectly keeping that many troops and tanks off
> the beaches of Normandy and out of the forests of the Rhine. They thought
> we might remember that, too.
> 
>   Instead, we're supposedly bombing the homes and offices of these
> perfectly nice folk because their dictator of the hour has been treating
> his Muslim minority somewhat churlishly down in Kosovo.
> 
>   And he certainly has. He's a very bad fellow, and I join in hoping Mr.
> Milosevic goes to hell sooner rather than later. But once we get done here,
> are we next going to invade Turkey to create a free and independent
> Kurdistan? Will we then send the entire U.S. Army across the Himalayas to
> take on the Red Chinese in order to guarantee a free and independent Tibet?
> Why not?
> 
>   CNN devoted an hour-long "special broadcast" to a little show-and-tell on
> the Geneva convention last week, parroting the White House line that the
> three American soldiers grabbed down along the Macedonian border can't be
> put on trial but instead have to be treated as prisoners of war, and not a
> single dissenting voice is allowed 30 seconds of airtime to cry out
> "(start ital)What(end ital) war? NATO's pinstripers and Madeleine Albright
> have been wriggling like contortionists for weeks now, insisting we're not
> (start ital)at(end ital) war, since if they admitted we were at war they'd
> have to admit Billy Jeff has violated his oath to protect and defend a
> Constitution which declares only Congress can (start ital)declare(end ital)
> war."
> 
>   What do you think we'd do if we caught three fully-armed Iraqis in funny
> headgear slipping across the Canadian border? We'd put them on trial as
> terrorists, of course. Yet when some foreign country does the same with
> armed U.S. soldiers at a time when American planes are bombing the bejezus
> out of them, we whine "You can't dooo that; it's against the ruuules."
> Which rules? The ones that used to say you can't purposely bomb civilian
> targets, like police and power stations?
> 
>   Boy Bill and a bunch of other former Vietnam war protesters sit in their
> padded leather chairs eagerly rubbing their palms together over a colorful
> Balkan map, picking out a menu of targets they hope will "bomb Milosevic to
> the bargaining table," for all the world as though hundreds of thousands of
> lives weren't expended from 1965 to 1973 demonstrating the futility of just
> such a strategy while one Boy Clinton led anti-war demonstrations at
> Oxford.
> 
>   Meantime, no one recoils in horror when I point out that the laws of
> nations make a limited exception that allows mass murder only if the person
> ordering the killing can claim he's been duly appointed to command the
> forces of a nation "at war," and that since our Congress has declared no
> war in the Balkans Mr. Clinton is thus not only a traitor who has forsaken
> his sacred oath, but also a mass murderer, indictable at The Hague as well
> as in Belgrade, should they ever get their hands on him. No, this is all
> now treated as perfectly routine.
> 
>   Why are we at war in Serbia? Because the Serbs wouldn't do what Bill
> Clinton told them. That's all. It's personal, which means we now enjoy the
> same form of government as the French under Napoleon.
> 
>   In his new book, "All Too Human," former Clinton intimate George
> Stephanopoulos describes Mr. Clinton growing wrathful with Anthony Lake
> about how things were going in one of his earlier junkets, the little
> adventure in Somalia:
> 
>   "We're not inflicting pain on these (persons who engage in sexual
> intercourse)," Mr. Stephanopoulos heard the president say. Then, his face
> reddening, the president yelled "I believe in killing people who try to
> hurt you. And I can't believe we're being pushed around by these two-bit
> (male sexual organs)."
> 
>   For his April 8 column Capitol Hill Blue, Doug Thompson interviewed
> Samuel Wilson, a former political worker in Clinton's second campaign for
> governor. Wilson told columnist Thompson he remembered the candidate
> encountering a critic at a campaign appearance in a small town. After the
> critic told Clinton he was nothing but a "two-bit politician" and walked
> away, Clinton turned to a campaign aide and said "Write down the name of
> that (person who commits incest.) When I'm back in office, he's a dead
> man."
> 
>   "I don't want to think he wanted to kill him literally, but I'm sure some
> sort of revenge was inflicted later on," Wilson recalled.
> 
>   A White House staff member told Thompson that at one meeting, Boy Clinton
> told staff members he wanted everyone in Independent Counsel Kenneth
> Starr's office audited by the IRS.
> 
>   "Several people in the meeting told the President he shouldn't do that,"
> the staff member remembered. "He slammed his fist down on the table and
> said: 'I can do any goddamned thing I want. I'm President of the United
> States. I take care of my friends and I (have sexual intercourse with) my
> enemies. That's the way it is. Anybody who doesn't like it can take a
> hike."
> 
>   Or move to Belgrade, apparently.
> 
> Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas
> Review-Journal. His new book, "Send in the Waco Killers" is available at
> $21.95 plus $3 shipping through web site
> http://www.thespiritof76.com/wacokillers.html, or at 1-800-244-2224.
> 
> ***
> 
> Vin Suprynowicz,   vin@lvrj.com
> 
> The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. -- John
> Hay, 1872
> 
> The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not
> get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases
> to discriminate between good and evil.  He becomes a slave in body and
> soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt
> against the reality! -- Mordechai Anielewicz, Warsaw, 1943
> 
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