War in Kosovo? Were you for it or against it?

[Bush was AWOL]

I just watched a show on the Discovery Times Channel called "Commander in Chief" and they just finished a 1 hour special on Clinton and the actions he took in Kosovo. I, for one, was in favor of it, and think it was carried out very well.

[DaveinMD]

1. in favor of it

The action in Kosovo was taken to preven genocide and Clinton built a coalition within NATO to take action.

[Bush was AWOL]

2. I'm curious about this as well, how did the Republicans

treat Clinton for taking this action? Did they vote in favor of it, or were they critical of the move?

[Hephaistos]

4. They were extremely critical

as were the people on our side who invented the need for a pipeline going through Serbia as the 'real' reason for the war (which was absolutely ludicrous, for geographical reasons alone).

Really, the oil argument was appropriate in Iraq, but sadly had been discredited by the Z-mag crowd applying it absolutely everywhere.

Kosovo turned out to be one Clinton's finest foreign-policy hours. He had learned the hard lessons from Bosnia.

[wuushew]

3. NATO really exceeded its mandate

which countries of the former Yugoslavia were NATO members? The answer of course is none.

I was very pleased the actual results of the peacekeeping but lets not fool ourselves on how we arrived at that situtation which was an end run around the U.N. and U.S. constitution.