I Wonder Why This Statue Was Erected? Anyone Have a Clue? Gratitude for Bombing?

[David Zephyr]

[GP6971]

1. Got me

Who is it of?

[onehandle]

2. President Bill Clinton in Kosovo.

PRISTINA, Kosovo — Thousands of ethnic Albanians braved low temperatures and a cold wind in Kosovo's capital Pristina to welcome former President Bill Clinton on Sunday as he attended the unveiling of an 11-foot (3.5-meter) statue of himself on a key boulevard that also bears his name.

Clinton is celebrated as a hero by Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority for launching NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999 that stopped the brutal Serb forces' crackdown on independence-seeking ethnic Albanians.

This is his first visit to Kosovo since it declared independence from Serbia last year.

Many waved American, Albanian and Kosovo flags and chanted "USA!" as the former president climbed on top of a podium with his poster in the background reading "Kosovo honors a hero."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ex-president-bill-clinton-unveils-statue-kosovo-article-1.413676

[GP6971]

4. Thanks! n/t

[David Zephyr]

5. A statue of gratitude "for launching NATO's bombing campaign"?

Imagine that.

[JI7]

3. because he is a warmonger who wanted to bomb and kill their kids

and declared war on them or whatever other crap people are saying these days.

[David Zephyr]

8. "crap"?

Hmmmm.....maybe you have that right.

[cloudbase]

6. That's quite an erection. n/t

[Vinnie From Indy]

7. What is under his right arm? is that a box of cigars?

eom

[David Zephyr]

13. Possibly the misguided writings of pseudo liberals who opposed his correct use of the military.

Maybe that's what's under his right arm.

[Scootaloo]

9. Well, if you don't know dick about Kosovo and NATO involvement there...

I could see how you could confuse it with Syria, in such a case, sure.

We weren't blowing up Kosovars because the Kosovar government blew up Kosovars. No we blew up Serbs becuase the Serbian government was blowing up Kosovars. And while the UN didn't back this up, we did at least have NATO on board, and it could have bene argued to be a logical extension of the UN-sanctioned action in Bosnia-Herzegovina .

[Tx4obama]

10. It's a shame that Russia and China are members of the U.N. - if they were not then we'd have...

.... we'd have U.N. support on Syria.

[David Zephyr]

14. Post #9 mentions "Syria". Hmmm. Wonder why?

But now that the poster brought up the subject of "Syria", it does seem to have some relevance.

Yes, I can see some relevance.

People were actually grateful for U.S. military strikes? Wow! That would surprise a lot of people to know that, huh?

And, by the way, I agree with you, Tx4obama.

[Scootaloo]

15. Kind of a tacky argument you've got, there

One, lamenting the US' lack of ability to cram whatever we want through the world body is... well, that's pretty tacky, yeah.

Two, we're not exactly cherubs on the security council, ourselves.

Three, it's not like we've ever been constrained by the UNSC anyway.

if you want to argue that the idea of having five militaristic imperial nations, out of a body of 192 nations and three observer states, having sole and absolute authority over who gets to use military force, when, and where... yeah, that's a bad idea. Got a better one, though? 'Cause i've been trying to figure out that puzzle for years.

[David Zephyr]

11. My, my, my. Syria? Who mentioned Syria?

What was that old saying Ann Richards used to say about a hit dog barking? I can't quite remember it. But I'm just trying to figure out why people were grateful for U.S. military strikes?

[Scootaloo]

16. Yuh huh

Maybe try this line back on the comments section of Yahoo news articles.

[Tx4obama]

12. K&R n/t

[Erose999]

17. Because they just thought a "Colossus of Rhodes... scholar" would be a funny title for a statue?