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Today on Orthodox forum Al posted the following message:

"Did anyone see the Oprah show this afternoon? She's covering 'holocausts' and had some pretty graphic pictures of the Serbian ethnic cleansing of Muslims... concentration camps, piles of bodies, raped women. During the display of photos, Oprah said the Serbs killed more than 200,000 Muslims. She said the U.S. bombing of Serbia put an end to the 'carnage'. Comments?"

In Selling the Bosnian Myth to America: Buyer Beware, Lt. Colonel John Sray writes: "America has not been so pathetically deceived since Robert McNamara helped to micromanage and escalate the Vietnam War."

Gregory R. Copley, Editor-in-Chief of Defence and Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy wrote in December of 1992: "Pictures of dead or wounded (or raped) Serbs often fill the screens of the world's television and print media, only to be re-labelled as dead or wounded or raped Croats or Muslims. Many Serbian victims - and the bulk of the victims of the conflict, contrary to popular reports, have been Serbs either from Bosnia and Herzegovina or from Croatia - not only suffer the indignity of defeat in death; they also are used in death as models in the macabre image, manipulation operation of the Croatians and the Muslim Bosnians. If the Vietnam War was lost to the United States by the negative television images of its own reporters, then the Balkan wars against the Serbs are being won by Ustashi Croatia and the Muslim Bosnians by an active, planned manipulation of international television."

Does Oprah have a proof that pictures of mutilated and raped bodies she is showing on her 'holocaust' special are Muslims killed by the Serbs, and not Serbs killed by Muslims or Croats? Can she tell who's who? Because I can't remember how many times have I seen the funeral scenes presented as Muslims crying over their loved ones brutally killed by Serbs, while on the gravestones in the background are freshly carved Serbian names, in Cyrillic alphabet (that not a single Croat or Muslim from former Yugoslavia would use), and oftentimes with crosses on them. There were also numerous cases never reported by CNN, BBC and other representatives of imperial media, of families of Serbian victims having salt poured in their wounds by the same media showing gruesome pictures of their loved ones as Muslims or Croats mutilated by Serbs. It would be nice if Oprah bothered to investigate, instead of parroting the lies repeated for the last 15 years on her show.

Oprah would benefit to learn that most of the atrocities Serbs are blamed for in Bosnia were commited by Bosnian Muslims, in a ruthless propaganda war waged to bring the world's wrath on Serbs. The alleged concentration camps run by Serbs have also been proved to be a propaganda hoax. The only 'camps' Serbs run in the latest series of civil wars that devoured former Yugoslavia were refugee camps, where people were coming for protection and were free to leave at any time - it had nothing to do with Nazi-style concentration camps. But I guess it's too late to tell that to Oprah now.

The most baffling part of her show, though, are the numbers. Where did she get the "200,000 Muslims killed by Serbs" from?! First of all, neither Oprah, nor anyone else can possibly know how many Muslims were killed in the war by Serbs, how many of them were killed by Croats (who fought both with Serbs and Muslims in Bosnia), and how many of Muslims who didn't want to join Bin Laden-Izetbegovic mujahedeen were killed by Muslim jihadists. Where did she get the 200,000 number? It is a nice round number that needs some backing up with facts. Srebrenica "genocide" hasn't produced more than 3000 bodies, of both Muslims and Serbs - the only thing that is clear about that case is that there was a fierce battle in Srebrenica area between Serbian and Muslim forces. Is Oprah counting the alleged "100,000 or 200,000 Albanians killed in Kosovo" State Department claimed prior to bombardment of Serbia? Someone should inform her that FBI along with dozens of foreign forensic teams that poured into Kosovo after the bombardment unearthed around 2000 bodies altogether, both Serbian and Albanian. Around the same number of Serbs were killed with NATO bombs, after the strife in Kosovo has ended. So, where does the 200,000 Muslims killed by Serbs come from? I would really like to know.

Since Oprah couldn't get Dr. Phil or Tom Cruise for her show and decided to, instead, tell the world the 'holocaust' story, I sincerely hope she didn't omit to include the Turkish genocide of 1,5 million Armenians in her "study". Because that horror story, well documented by a number of foreign diplomats, in word and picture, certainly deserves to be called a genocide. Did she go on to tell the world about 750,000 Serbs killed in Croatian concentration camps, along with 60,000 Jews and 30,000 Gypsies? Or, did the word JASENOVAC enter her script anywhere? If not, then Oprah should go back to entertaining housewives and stop talking about the things she knows nothing of.

Not that I doubt her good intentions - I despise the lazy, ignorant, cowardly people thirsting for recognition who jump on the safe wagons and trumpet only the safe "truths", those for which they know no consequences will befall them. While Oprah wouldn't DARE to utter a single word against Muslim aggression, or risk a backlash by letting go of her political correctness when it comes to Muslims, homosexuals or any nation except Serbs, she feels it's perfectly safe to join in with Serb-bashers and further promote the genocidal maniacs, rapists and modern-day fascists brand for Serbs, because everybody else does and nothing has ever happened to them.