Ode to my poor deluded friend

CNN.com - Iraq war wasn't justified, U.N. weapons experts say - Mar 21, 2004

Justification: something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary.

When Bill Clinton and his general Wesley Clark dropped bombs on Serbia and killed 900 civilians what was the justification? Headlines from sea to shining sea read GENOCIDE!, but was this true? I haven't found an accounting of the number of innocent Kosovar Albanians killed but it doesn't seem to be more than a few thousand. Certainly a tragedy and certainly criminal, but the same administration didn't lift a finger while a real genocide was occuring in Rwanda. Why should we believe that ethnic cleansing was the justification for attacking Serbia?

Did Serbia attack the U.S.? Since they did no such thing this war was a preemptive war. While the Left accuses President Bush of initiating the doctrine of preemption, it was, most certainly, Former President Clinton who installed preemption as policy.

Was Serbia an "immenent threat" to the US? I think the answer is pretty clear. The war they were in with the KLA was a civil war, as were previous wars involving Serbia.

Was there a single U.N. Security Council resolution to intervene in Kosovo by bombing Serbia? Well, no. So again former President Clinton was guilty of "unilateral" use of military forces long before President Bush.

WMDs in Serbia? You get the point.

While Clinton and Clark were off trying to take out Milosevic, they lost sight of the real threat to the US, Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda had already bombed the WTC complex once before the war against Serbia.

Summing up, Clinton preemptively attacked a country which wasn't an imminent threat to the US, which didn't possess WMDs and without a UN mandate to do so while losing sight of the true enemy Al Qaeda. Maybe if Bubba had done more against the right enemy 9/11 and 3/11 never would have happened. Please tell me why it was necessary to fly at 10,000 feet and rain death on innocent Serbian civilians

Every attack and accusation made against President Bush should have been made against President Clinton. Those who did so then have some moral ground from which to launch such today. I said some, let's continue to fill out the balance sheet.