LAUER: By the way, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded, according to most reports, 183 times. This guy was waterboarded more than 80 times. And you explain that his understanding of Islam was that he had to resist interrogation up to a certain point and waterboarding was the technique that allowed him to reach that threshold and fulfill his religious duty and then cooperate. And you have a quote from him. "You must do this for all the brothers." End quote.Yeah, it is! Hmm, what's more interesting? That he believes it was important to meet the terrorist's expectations of the American government, or that he actually followed the advice of one of the terrorists to turn modern torture into an American brand name?
BUSH: Yeah. Isn't that interesting?
And I gotta say I kind of admire his honesty, at least in this instance.
Well, we just didn't have any solid intelligence that gave us a warning on this. We didn't have any clear intelligence that said you know, 'Get ready. They're gonna fly airplanes into New York buildings.'
Americans are divided over whether President Barack Obama or his predecessor has performed better in the White House, according to a new national poll.We're in a bad way here, folks.
And a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday also indicates in the battle for Congress, Republicans hold large advantages over the Democrats among independents, men and blue-collar whites. The poll also indicates that Republicans are much more enthusiastic than Democrats to vote.
By 47 to 45 percent, Americans say Obama is a better president than George W. Bush. But that two point margin is down from a 23 point advantage one year ago.
"Democrats may want to think twice about bringing up former President George W. Bush's name while campaigning this year," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
The Yugoslav Army and the Serbian Police in early 1999 "in an organized manner, with significant use of state resources" conducted a broad campaign of violence against Albanian civilians to expel them from Kosovo and thus maintain political control of Belgrade over the province.[4][5] Serbian campaign of ethnic cleansing was cited in support of the NATO intervention. After the war, International War Crimes Tribunal sentenced some of the top Serbian political and military leaders for forcible population transfer, deportation and persecution of Kosovo civilians.[4]
14 June 1999 Ethnic Albanians beginning flooding back into Kosovo; within three weeks over 600,000 will return in one of the most rapid refugee returns in history. As many as 200,000 Serbs and Roma begin moving toward Serbia and Montenegro to escape retribution.posted by the young rope-rider at 9:23 AM on November 10, 2010
18 Jun. 1999 After a week of tension, confusion and discussions, Albright, Cohen and Russians reach preliminary agreement over Russian participation in peacekeeping force. In all, over 20,000 international troops have moved into Kosovo.
20 Jun. 1999 Serbs complete withdrawal from Kosovo, and Secretary General Solana formally ends NATO's bombing campaign.
21 Jun. 1999 Under NATO pressure, KLA agrees to disarm.
The Hague Tribunal ruled that over 700,000 Kosovo Albanians were forcibly displaced by Yugoslav forces into neighboring Albania and Macedonia, with many thousands displaced within Kosovo.[22] By April, the United Nations reported 850,000 refugees had left from Kosovo.[31] Another 230,000 were listed as internally displaced persons (IDPs): driven from their homes, but still inside Kosovo.You have a million displaced people. A million. Villages that turn up empty. I think that "up to 100,000 missing" is sensible. Up to 100,000 dead? Iffy, but I think still justifiable.
Many accounts from both Serbs and Albanians identified Yugoslav security forces and paramilitaries as the culprits, responsible for systematically emptying towns and villages of their Albanian inhabitants by forcing them to flee.[34] A postwar statistical analysis of the patterns of displacement, conducted the American Association for the Advancement of Science, found a direct correlation between Yugoslav security force operations and refugee outflows, with NATO operations having little effect on the displacements.[35]Some of those sources are from dead links, so I'll keep digging.
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Dubya: "So I'm drunk at the dinner table at Mother and Dad's house in Maine. And I said to her, what is sex like after fifty? Ad Dad said son... watch this drive!"
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