Wag the Dog

A few years ago I saw an article on the web claiming that Serbian Socialist Evil Monster Slobodan Milosevic might not be the man painted by the US government and the western media that serves it, and that the atrocities attributed to him were lies. (He massacred his own people! As was said of Saddam Hussein after him.)  I didn't know what to make of it and so passed it off. After all, we had civilian reports and pictorial proof of dire circumstances that justified helping to “take him out” didn't we? He was fairly tried wasn't he? The fact that he died in his cell at the Hague wasn't in any way suspicious was it?  No one else was making any claims to defend the monster.  You have to be careful about defending every monster the US goes up against, even when you know that the US routinely paints its opponents as monsters when it suits us to do so, because, after all, some of them are truly monsters, and you don't want to be seen as a US hater on principle.

19th February 2012  ...  Both the Commander of the OSCE's Kosovo Verification Mission in 1999 (just before Yugoslavia was attacked) Roland Keith and the former Canadian Ambassador in Belgrade James Bissett have condemned the war and defended the Yugoslav Government. Bissett said that the 1999 attack was a "put up job" and quotes the most revealing admission by the former British Defense Minister, Lord Gilbert, who told the British House of Commons in July 2000 that the terms that NATO sought to force upon Milosevic at Rambouillet were deliberately designed to provoke war. Commander Keith described the KLA as a terrorist organisation which had a grip on most villages in Kosovo. He had direct experience of the lies told by villagers about ethnic cleansing and he said he never saw the Yugoslav Federal Army mistreat anyone in Kosovo.

Now we have a respected German Television programme "Time Travel" broadcast in January 2012 providing clear proof of the fraud practised by the German Government to justify to their public an attack on Yugoslavia in 1999. It is the equivalent of the "dodgy dossier" of that other great "builder of Europe" Tony Blair, and shows the lies told by the then German Foreign Office Minister Rudolf Scharping to the press. The proof came from a German policeman who actually took the photographs used by Scharping but who knew there had in fact been no "massacre" of  "civilians" but a battle between armed Kosovo terrorists and Serb forces.

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Rudolf Scharping: "These photos clearly show the massacre perpetrated on 29 January in the vicinity of Rugovo, confirming that the plan for the expulsion of the "Kosovars" was put into action."

Narrator: "However, according to Hensch who took the photos, they represented evidence of a fire fight - not a massacre. On 29 January 1999, Hensch was asked to come to Rugovo. [...] Three months after the event, Rudolf Scharping unveiled the photos as evidence that a massacre had been carried out on civilians. […] The pictures from Rugovo purported to show what the German public desperately needed - a proof that NATO air strikes against Serbia were necessary."

[...]

Narrator: “These are the photos that Rudolf Scharping didn't show. He didn't show the Albanians' weapons, their UCK badges and membership cards and their ammunition. He didn't show the clear evidence of fighting."

HH: "There can be no talk of a massacre here, and however inconvenient this might sound, these were military battles."

  Free Nations

You already know about the “evidence” of chemical weapons labs in Iraq and the aluminum tubes. You saw the staged video of Jessica Lynch's “rescue” from the hands of the evil Iraqis. This is how things are done. This is how they've been done for all of your lifetime and all of your parents' lifetimes and all of your grandparents' lifetimes – at least.

If you have never watched the movie “Wag the Dog” rent it. At the very least you will be well entertained. And it has Anne Heche in it.

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.