Reply #118: I disagree with your premise that an intervention in Kosovo was

[FrenchieCat]

not warranted.

First, in reference to the "hyped" numbers that you gave, let me say this.....In Bosnia, there were 200,000 slaughtered just a fews years before, and by the time of our intervention, there were approximately 10,000 Muslim Albanian deaths that occured in Kosovo. The intervention was entered in exactly because no one wanted to see a repeat of Bosnia in Kosovo. The intervention stopped Genocide, so no, there wasn't a pile of 100,000 laying in a heap that compelled us into Kosovo....the pile of 200,000 in Bosnia and the pile of 800,000 in Rwanda, however, did give us a road map.

Do you know how many civilian casualties were reported by Human Rights group that were caused by the NATO Bombing?

Here is Barbara Boxer discussing this very issue during the Condi Rice SOS Hearings....

"My last point has to do with Milosevic. You said you can't compare the two dictators. You know, you're right; no two tyrants are alike. But the fact is Milosevic started wars that killed 200,000 in Bosnia, 10,000 in Kosovo and thousands in Croatia, and he was nabbed and he's out without an American dying for it. That's the facts. Now I suppose we could have gone in there and people could have killed to get him. The fact is not one person wants either of those two to see the light of day, again. And in one case we did it without Americans dying. In the other case, we did it with Americans dying. And I think if you ask the average American, you know, was Saddam worth one life, one American life, they'd say, "No, he's the bottom of the barrel." And the fact is we've lost so many lives over it. So if we do get a little testy on the point, and I admit to be so, it's because it continues day in and day out, and 25 percent of the dead are from California.
We cannot forget. We cannot forget that. Thank you. "--Barbara Boxer
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/19/politics/19cnd-rtex.h ...