--- Steven1997@aol.com wrote: > Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 18:44:42 EDT > Subject: The Big Lie About Kosovo > To: Steven1997@aol.com > > Newsmax.com > The Big Lie About Kosovo > Richard Poe, April 14, 1999 > > "Save the Albanian Kosovars!" Clinton cries. "Save the SudetenGermans!" > Hitler trumpeted in 1938. The names have changed, but thestrategy remains > the same. For more than 50 years, we Americans have looked down our noses at the Germans, for having followed Hitler so blindly. But now it's our turn. We are proving no more resistant to propaganda than those cheering crowds in Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will. > > Back in the 1930s, Adolf Hitler needed an excuse to seize Czechoslovakia. > So he invented one. Three and a quarter million ethnic Germans lived in the Sudetenland, under Czech rule. As William L. Shirer recounts in The Rise > and Fall of the Third Reich, Hitler secretly funded an extremist group called the Sudeten German Party and ordered it to provoke an uprising against the Czechs. > > Kosovo, too, appears to have been destabilized by outside forces. For > years, Kosovars protested Milosevic peacefully. But in 1997, a group called the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) suddenly started shooting. > > Who were these people? > > The Times of London (March 24, 1999) described the KLA as "a Marxist-led > force funded by dubious sources, including drug money." European police > suspect the KLA of connections to Albanian gangsters. At least two of the > > group's backers appear to have been the CIA and the German spy agency > BND, according to intelligence analyst John Whitley, quoted in the Truth in Media Global Watch Bulletin (April 2, 1999). > > The purpose of staging a provocation is to create a backlash. This > strategy certainly worked for Hitler in 1938. As unrest spread in the Sudetenland, the Czechs cracked down. Czech President Eduard Benes ordered troops into the region and declared martial law. > > Right on cue, the German press went wild. "Women and Children Mowed Down > by Armored Cars," ran a typical Berlin newspaper headline in September 1938. "Poison Gas Attack on Aussig" cried another. > > Hitler accused Benes of waging a "war of extermination" against Sudeten > Germans. "The Germans he now drives out!" cried Hitler, in a September > 16, 1938 speech. "We see the appalling figures: on one day 10,000 fugitives, on the next 20,000... and today 214,000. Whole stretches of country were depopulated, villages are burned down, attempts are made to smoke out the Germans with hand-grenades and gas. sound familiar? Hitler's rhetoric bears an eerie resemblance to the CNN news blitz on Kosovo. Of course, Hitler was exaggerating. Many of the atrocities he alleged later turned out to be fabrications. But the same is true of our newscasts on Kosovo. > > Take the alleged massacre of 45 Albanian civilians at Racak, for > instance, reported in January 1999. Forensic and other evidence now suggests that the bodies were those of KLA guerrillas killed in combat. > > The hoax has been widely discussed in the European press (including Le > Monde, Die Welt, Le Figaro and the BBC). But U.S. news outlets have been as silent on the controversy as if they were taking orders from Goebbels himself. > > In the Sudeten crisis, Hitler claimed to be inspired by internationalist > ideals. "Among the fourteen points which President Wilson promised ..." > the Fuhrer proclaimed, "was the fundamental principle of the > self-determination of all peoples ..." By freeing the Sudeten Germans, Hitler argued, he was fulfilling Wilson's vision. > > Clinton too claims he is fighting for human rights. But ethnic cleansing > does not bother Clinton when his friends are the ones doing the cleansing. He ordered no bombing when the Croatians drove 300,000 Serbs from Krajina, > burning their homes and killing many. Nor did he intervene when our NATO > ally Turkey slaughtered over 35,000 Kurds. > > Every schoolchild today knows that Hitler's real goal, in seizing > Czechoslovakia, was to use it as a stepping stone for his planned > invasion of Russia. > > But what is Clinton's real interest in Kosovo? Nobody knows. > > Many theories have been floated. Some point to the Trepca mines of > northern Kosovo, rich in gold, zinc, silver and lead. The New York Times called them the "Kosovo war's glittering prize" (July 8, 1998). > > Others see a more far-reaching strategy. The Russians claim that NATO, > like Hitler, wants to use the Balkans as a stepping stone for extending its power eastward -- eventually meddling in the affairs of Russia itself. ---Clintons' hidden agenda has always been nothing less than the total destruction of usa Armed Forces. He HATES our military. > > But this is all speculation. Only time will reveal Clinton's true > intentions, as it ultimately did Hitler's. > > In his memoir Inside the Third Reich, Albert Speer recalled the anxious > mood of Berliners, in September 1939, as they digested the news that England and France had declared war. > > "The atmosphere was noticeably depressed," he recalls. "The people were > full of fear about the future. None of the regiments marched off to war > decorated with flowers as they had done at the beginning of the First World War. The streets remained empty. There was no crowd on Wilhelmsplatz shouting for Hitler." > > A wise man once said that those who fail to study history are condemned > to repeat it. Should Clinton actually succeed in sparking a world war, > Americans will no doubt react with the same shock and fear as Berliners did in 1939. > But we will have only ourselves to blame. > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Richard Poe is a freelance journalist and a New York Times-bestselling > author. He writes frequently on historical themes. Poe's latest book, > "Black Spark, White Fire", explores the Afrocentric controversy concerning > ancient Egypt.