KOSOVO: QUOTES

"Our Alliance threatens no one. None of our weapons will ever be used except in response to attack."

NATO "Declaration of of Brussels" (1983)

"We do know that we must do more to reach out to our children and teach them to express their anger and to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons".

[President Clinton, televised address, 4/21/99, the 28th day of NATO aggression against Yugoslavia]

"[NATO attacks against Yugoslavia] are an attempt to defend moral values. [...] Europe of the 21st century should be built on those, moral values."

[NATO Secretary General Javier Solana, in an interview for the German newsmagazine "Stern", 4/22/99]

"We knew what we were doing".

"NATO is a constructive organization".

[NATO spokesmen gen. Marani, and Jamie Shea, respectively, 4/21/99, responding to press conference questions about environmental consequences of strikes on chemical plants in Yugoslav cities of Pancevo and Baric]

"He dropped his bomb in good faith, as you would expect a well-trained pilot from a democratic country to do".

(NATO spokesman Jamie Shea, as reported by SF Examiner, 4/19/99, on NATO strafing of an Albanian refugee convoy, killing 75 civilians)

"The bombing campaign was designed really for two purposes; one, to convince Mr. Milosevic through the cumulative impact of this that the path of peace makes more sense to him [...]; that would be the optimum outcome [...].
(National Security advisor Samuel Berger, on News Hour with Jim Lehrer, 3/26/99)

"NATO rebuffed Serbia's offer of an Orthodox Easter ceasefire as inadequate. [...] But a disturbing element of the Serb offer was the announcement that Belgrade is preparing an accord with ethnic Albanian leader Rugova."
(Wall Street Journal, 4/7/99, pg.1)

Madeleine Albright

PBS, March 24th: "I don't see this as a long-term operation. I think that this is ... achievable within a relatively short period of time."

NBC, April 4th: "We never expected this to be over quickly. The president himself has said, 'This is not a 30-second commercial.' We are in there for a long time."

"[...] the technique of the Serbs has been - essentially go in and burn the village, and chase away the [KLA] guerillas".
(National Security advisor Samuel Berger on "why we should stop Serb operations in Kosovo", on News Hour with Jim Lehrer, 3/26/99)

" 'We condemn very strongly terrorist actions in Kosovo. The KLA is, without any questions, a terrorist group', Gelbard said."
[Ambassador Robert Gelbard, Clinton Administration's special envoy for Kosovo, quoted by Agence France Presse, 2/23/98]

US News has learned that U.S. officials held secret talks with the KLA earlier this month about providing European-made anti-tank weapons and other materiel". [US News and World Report, 3/26/99, p.28]