Serbs "disgusted" by Bush Kosovo pledge - premier

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

BELGRADE, June 11 (Reuters) - Serbs will never forgive the United States if it helps ensure Kosovo's Albanians win independence for the Serbian province, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said on Monday.

In a bitter response to President George W. Bush's promise to Albanians that Kosovo would soon be independent, Kostunica said Serbia was "justifiably disgusted" by U.S. policy, the official Serbian news agency Tanjug reported.

The row over Kosovo's future deepened as the province marked the eve of the 8th anniversary of the June 12 deployment of 60,000 NATO troops who entered the territory from Macedonia as Serb forces withdrew to the north.

It has turned into a high-stakes diplomatic standoff between Russia, which backs Serbia in opposition to independence, and the West, which believes it is the only viable solution to future stability in the southern Balkans.

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[Eurobabe]

1. Tough darts, I have a friend that lost her 27 y/o brother

in the war in Kosovo. She is an Albanian Muslim The stories she told me made the hair curl up the back of my neck. No one should ever have to endure ethnic cleansing and the other atrocities that happened there in the 90s. Kosovo deserves its freedom. Now.

[Megahurtz]

2. And There Are Always Two Sides

to every story. :think:

[LostinVA]

6. Not to ethnic cleansing

[eridani]

9. Sure there are two sides

Serb ethnic cleansing of Albanian majority Kosovo = bad
Croatian ethnic cleansing of the Serb majority Krajina = good

Time for----ta da--- Selective Outrage!

[yava]

7. never again!

While I agree with your outrage regarding the atrocities committed by serbs on ethnic Albanians, in today's context in America, using phrases like "No one should ever have to endure ethnic cleansing and the other atrocities that happened there in the 90s" is a little simplistic given what is going on in Iraq. Less people were killed in the 90s in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosova than civilian victims in America's war in Iraq since 4 years ago. Add to this the effects of phosphorous bombs, depleted uranium , torture, exploited orphin children turned into sex workers, raped boys and girls, disappearance of all rights for women, the words "Never Again" seem stupid if you refer to the 1990s while ignoring what is thrown at your face today on TV. With all due respect, our conversations on human rights here are often hypocritical if not with additional complicity to crimes agaist humanity. Putin's undemocractic excesses are dwarfted in comparison, at least to me.

[Eurobabe]

8. yeah well sorry i have tendonitis and was typing in the

moment. sorry i didn't flush out my ph.d. thesis better for you. :eyes:

[Ian David]

3. Bush can do what he wants. Nobody understands what the hell is going on there.

Fox News can just tell the Limbots whatever they want them to believe.

[roamer65]

4. Seems like everywhere this twit goes...

he tries to start a new war.

[Igel]

5. Yes, but in this case it's the final resolution of an old war,

following pretty much the same policy that Clinton instituted.

The same lines were drawn there--Russia pitched a fit at what Clinton did, and he managed to piss off the Chinese by bombing their embassy. Russia said, immediately after hostilities ceased, that the occupation had to be short, and independence was not on the table. Peacekeepers are still there, including Americans.