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Roach Misses the Point Again

But there was another recent war based on mistaken intelligence that has occasioned little commentary: the United States’ war against Serbia on behalf of Kosovar Albanians. We were told about mass graves of Albanians killed by hateful Serbs. Instead, no mass grave sites have been found, several years after that conflict’s termination. Yet Clinton’s mistakes […]

But there was another recent war based on mistaken intelligence that has occasioned little commentary: the United States’ war against Serbia on behalf of Kosovar Albanians. We were told about mass graves of Albanians killed by hateful Serbs. Instead, no mass grave sites have been found, several years after that conflict’s termination. Yet Clinton’s mistakes were ignored at the time and remain undiscussed, his presidency a supposed halcyon era of US respect for truth and international standards.

This all suggests that the real motive of the anti-war movement is not concern for truth, or the Iraqi people, or the lives of US servicemen in harm’s way. The real motive is visceral Bush hatred by the American left. The war is just a pretext. ~Chris Roach

Mr. Roach is having us on, right? “Clinton’s mistakes”? The administration then knew perfectly well that the ‘atrocities’ they were citing were simply fictions. It was, once again, not “mistaken intelligence” but willful aggression that started the war against Yugoslavia–whatever could be spun to that end would be spun, and whatever could be lied about would be, and if a useful ‘massacre’ could be staged for the benefit of the idiots at CNN then so much the better. Racak is the most famous example of an obviously staged ‘massacre’ that was turned into propaganda fodder for NATO’s attack. If it makes Mr. Roach feel any better, there were some far left folks who opposed that war (such as the late Sen. McCarthy), too, and there were, of course, the “freakazoids” (as he calls them) at Antiwar who have consistently opposed all illegal American wars over the past ten years. Frankly, I can’t speak for the loons at ANSWER and MoveOn, whose main concern is political advantage, and I don’t care what drives them. If Mr. Roach were as concerned about Mr. Bush’s integrity and policies as he is about the motives of the President’s critics, he might begin to notice the man’s violations of the Constitution. Still, if anyone doesn’t, at some level, genuinely hate a tyrant like Mr. Bush, he has no business pretending to love liberty.

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