Serbs, Lies, and Videotapes

Were we duped into the War Against the Serbs by the Clinton administration? Perhaps the Battle for Iraq has been a distraction from the trail that was touted as "Nuremberg II." Perhaps there are other reasons that the powers that are (or were) don't want us to know much about what led up to the war, what went on, and how we were drawn in.

Recently, “Hannity & Colmes”, of the usually less-easily-fooled-than-other-networks Fox News Channel, treated us masses to a “genocide” video that’s just been handed over to the Hague’s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Pouring even more gasoline onto the carefully cultivated and long accepted caricature of the evil Serb, Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes were of one mind when Hannity called the actions of the Bosnian Serb soldiers in the video “pure evil” and “evil incarnate.”

Without being wrong about evil on display in the video, the network had been had. The circulation of, and the outrage surrounding, this tape--especially high right now in guilt-ridden Serbia itself--is a sign that things have gone from bad to worse in the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic.

Tsk, tsk, Fox. Somebody hasn’t been following the Milosevic trial. But since that somebody will look silly only to the six or so Americans who have been following it, there’s no risk in spouting the Hague Tribunal’s PR. PR because this trial is supposed to justify the new International Criminal Court’s (ICC) existence and convince the Bush administration of its utility, not its futility.

There’s a reason for the conspicuous three-year near silence by all major media on this oh so momentous Second Nuremberg, as it was billed—a silence broken only one or two days a year, when they’re finally able to offer up a damning piece of evidence that will perpetuate the version of events we’ve been sold from the beginning.

This article has links to some ve-rr-ry interesting information and a link to a disturbing photo essay and video that is not for the squeamish. After the reading you may have an entirely different outlook on the war...I did.