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Basically America is playing the same game it has been up to around the world. This time they made a mistake: trying to screw over the Serbian people for a second time. This attack by protestors should just be the beginning. First the U.S, why not France, Germany or Britain next? Why not Slovenia, who currently holds the EU presidency? Why not torch the Croatian embassy just for the hell of it (they especially are worthy of it)? It doesnt matter what the "international community" will say. As long as you have Russia, China and a handful of other nations behind you, who cares what people who have deemed your entire race "genocidal" thinks. I mean immediatly after the story broke, CNN and FOX already started up their propaganda machines. It seems the "unbiased" American media thinks that Putin is behind the whole thing, as if the Serbian people have no will of their own!

Excellent post, and you are right, any half-sane or decent person surely can see how reprehensible (and at the least illogical) this all is. I'm ashamed to be an American. Honestly.

I was amazed to see Reuters and other US mainstream media whipping themselves and their readers/viewers into a frenzy over this perceived "wrong." Where were they a few days ago when this started brewing? Oh, yeah; I remember. They were all patting themselves on the back, congratulating Kosovo on its independence. Now that it has its independence, what next, geniuses?

The USA is a nation built on genocide and hypocrisy and has the nerve to talk about international law they can get stuffed may God spare their souls from hell.

Down with this evil empire Serbia has risen.

Kosovo is Serbia USA Get of Serbia's ship before she kicks your ass!

Incredible! Unbelievable! That Khalilzad would invoke the concept of sovereign territory!

I am home when I am visiting this blog. I absolutely love it. It reaches my soul

Interesting article: http://www.pogledi.co.yu/english/cs1.php Worth a read.

I am with the Serbian people and outraged by the injustice done to them.
USA is very, very wrong on this issue and it will bite them sooner or later.

It makes me crazy with rage to read of the US invoking "international law" while utterly stomping and destroying it to shreads in the last few years.A historic and sad time for Srbija right now.I cannot do anything but follow the situation.I am like CNN I have a source in Novi Sad ,Beograd and Mitrovica by phone,television and the internet.History in the making nema da se ide nazad.
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Bravo! Very well written and succinctly put. Apparently the bus bombings in London and 09/11 here were quickly forgotten ... I only wonder why the US chooses to support the formation of yet another Muslim country. Hell, why not just go and give Jerusalem to the Muslims while they're at it? Or, better yet, once California reaches a Hispanic majority, let's hand it over to Mexico, right? Nooooooo????????

I wasn't happy about the embassy torching; that's just lowering oneself to the Empire's level. But to hear the Empire howl in protest and invoke sovereignty and sanctity of territory, mere DAYS after it denied it to Serbia and violated nearly every international statute on the books... I thought I knew cynicism, but this is something else altogether. This is madness.

Maybe i am being stupid, but i wonder, if serbia backed by russia moved into Kosovo, who would be willing to stop them?? would the countries that has accepted so-called Kosovo independance (which are clearly under the thumb of the usa) but their solidiers lives on the line and possibly engage in a massive conflict?? Like has been said before in previous posts Serbia has a fucking good army and trust me their is nothing more scary than a pissed off serb!!

As G. Orwell wrote in his famous "Animal Farm": "All animals are equal! But some are more equal than others" ....

Great Khalilzad! But while you're getting UN to condemn those genocidal Serbs, make sure noone tells them about your deliberate bombing and complete distruction of Chinese embassy in Belgrade, killing the Chinese citizens and violating Chinese soverginity.

I cannot apoligise enough for the actions of my filthy muslim loving government (UK). The BBC always portrayed the Serbs as racist troublemakers, with the muslims as victims. Please feel free to burn down the embassy,
LONG LIVE SERBIA!!

I want to let all the Serbians know that the many many Americans are behind you and support you. Kososvo is a rogue state that should be recognized by no one. Hopefully the US will come to their senses and back down form this issue. Bill Clinton should be prosecuted for going in their in the first place.

Serbia's greatest weapon is their status here as an unjustly wronged victim. They're a victim of the UN, NATO, Albania, KLA, and the US. But they forfeit the propaganda value of that status by burning down embassies. America has behaved wrongly here. But Serbia has an embassy in US. Countries everywhere should not subject embassies and diplomats to undue harassment. It's a question of reciprocity. The value of burning down the unlawful customs offices on the provincial border is much greater, but, please, for your own sake, do not be like Palestinians who have lost all sympathy from most Americans by behaving like wild animals the last few years and engaging in injustices like suicide bombs. Most Americans will support the Serbs, I believe, so long as they understand the facts.

I say this as a friend who does not want the basic message lost in gratuitous and ineffective acts of violence. The message is simple: All Serbs know that Kosovo is Serbia. Its independence is a sham, and the West and other nations are wrong to recognize it.

Last night I was talking to a friend who's son is in the army (British). The son is about to go to Afghanistan for his third tour there. My friend also told me that his son has just signed on for another four years.

"What did he do that for? He might find himself eventually getting sent to Kosovo and having to shoot Serbs"

" My boy will NEVER shoot Serbs. I brought him up right"

Wonder if the British politicians realise what they are doing to our army?

There used to be a story - an old one now - during the days of conscription here in Britain:

A pacifist is conscripted into the army. He tells the sergeant:

"I refuse to fight"

To which the sergeant answers:

"OK, fair enough, we can't make you fight. But what we can do is put you in a place where if you don't fight, then you'll get killed"

Now I have always had my own personal little addition to this story, and it is that the perfect reply to what the sergeant said is:

" OK, put like that you can make me fight. Mind you, are you sure you know who I'll be pointing my gun at when I start pulling the trigger?"

The British government is playing a very dangerous game with the people of this country. Has anyone read this?:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/22/narmy122.xml

The idiots think they can replace the experienced veterans they are losing with inexperienced youths and foreigners. A very dangerous game indeed.

They are short of manpower to deal with the current situations they are in, and they propose sending men to get involved in yet another serious situation - Kosovo. We are governed by idiots.

No, I am not a pacifist. Never have been, am not, never will be. I enlisted (that's volunteered) for sevice in the armed forces when I was only fifteen. A long time ago now, but I still have the same mind-set.

Who the hell is Zalmay Khalilzad and where did Bush find him?? Is he another of Bush's f..king muslims? Of all the arrogant bastards, he ranks right up there with Bush, Clinton, Albright, etc. Let them all go to hell.

Russia said today at the NATO aggression-pact meeting, that it will not rule ut the use of force over Kosovo (if NATO and €U starts shooting and beating serbs).

Since the american fascists (like all of them) see talks and diplomacy as a sign of weakness and appears "shocked" at resistance against their aggressions, the only language to repond to them is brute force. Some of those weapons provided to Iran and Syria might be useful like S-300 and Satan-missiles which will vapourize any fascist force in a second...

Dear Svetlana

Perhaps someone would be good enough to explain to me what the American Ambassador and his staff are still doing in Serbia? I can think of no valid reason.
They have just aided and abetted an act of treason and criminality against the nation and people of Serbia.
As I understand it they are setting up barriers between Serbia and Kosovo which is, I would have thought, an act of almost war and certainly a violation of Serbs rights. Yet your government tolerates their provocative presence in Belgrade.
It is acts like this that make me think that the Serbian people are being not only double crossed and betrayed by the USA and its pet poodles but by some of your own politicians as well.
The Americans should surely be given their marching orders forthwith. Then their rented premises would be quite safe.
Elizabeth

Thank you so much for keeping people informed as to what is REALLY happening in Serbia and Kosovo. My heart has been breaking for all our friends in Gracanica who have suffered yet another winter with virtually NO electricity or water. They have NO freedom of movement and it is very dangerous for them to travel to Nis to see their children who go to school there. I talked to them yesterday and they said they have never seen such despair as there is in Serbia right now. Their mothers have cried non-stop for days, grandmother has gone to bed, and their uncle cannot eat. This whole thing is an outrage the way it has been played. It is interesting to note that our American friends who are still there working as contractors for the UN, OSCE and the like are ALL on the side of the Serbs. Why? Because they are right there and they see what is really happening, the injustices that Serbs suffer all the time, and the lies that that are spread.

Elizabeth...Since diplomatic relations betweeen Serbia and the US should no longer exist, neither should diplomatic immunity of any US diplomatic personnel remaining in Serbia. In light of recent developments, they should all be placed under arrest as enemy espionage agents, thrown in prison and have the shit kicked out of them. Or maybe hand them over to some of the Kosovo Serbs forced to live as refugees in Serbia proper. Why should they continue to receive diplomatic immunity when they are there only to subvert Serbian sovereignty and the liberty of its people? The one exception I would urge is the US Marine embassy guards. Most of these young guys have done one or more tours in Iraq and know and hate the islamo jihadist. I would hope the marines would be given safe passage home.

Hello Joe
As far as I am concerned they are indeed persona non grata.
If nothing else they should all be escorted to Belgrade Airport and put on the first plane out.
I cannot believe they are being tolerated, as you so rightly say they will!! be spies. Most of them CIA and undoubtedly guilty of subversion if nothing else.
The Government has got to stop fine words and show a bit of steel here.
I hear tonight that Serb tanks are moving towards the border. Thank goodness for that. But in the meantime kick out every diplomat from countries recognising Kosovo, all NGOs, all scum connected in any way with George Soros or western multinational corporations who are there to screw the average Serb and his country just as they screw the rest of us.
Elizabeth

Thank you Svetlana

The U.S. position on the embassy is hypocritical:
- The U.S. embassies security is headed by Dyncorp, a private military contractor that assisted the U.S. in Kosovo. If anyone should be protecting the U.S. embassies those mercenary scum should. In fact in 2000/2001 when the diplomatic relations were establish the U.S. insisted that FRY has nothing to do with the embassies security.
- I find it ironic how the U.S. is calling for it's embassy in Beograd to be protected while in 1999 they bombed the Chinese embassy in Beograd.
- I also find it ironic, hypocritical and insulting that they wont Serbia to apologize. They refused to appologize for bombing the Chinese embassy in 1999.

Hi, ive been following events in Serbia here in Australia, and it does look as if the US is only suffering the effects of its own arrogance...If their embassy is burning, thats because they are continuing the break up of the former Yugoslavia and the people understand that all to well. They have sent the US a message.
The Kosovo independence is actually in violation of international law, as outlined by a former canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia:

'Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence should not be recognized by Canada. It has not been authorized by the United Nations and is therefore in violation of international law, the United Nations Charter and the Helsinki Final Accords. In addition, UN resolution 1244, which ended the bombing of Serbia, reaffirms Serbia's sovereignty over Kosovo.

The basic principles of territorial integrity and state sovereignty have governed the relations between states since the treaty of Westphalia in 1648. While they have been violated many times in the intervening years, usually by acts of aggression by dictators, they remain the essential components of international law.

After the cataclysmic events of two world wars and the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki the framers of the United Nations incorporated the principles of territorial integrity and state sovereignty into the United Nations Charter. The Charter was seen as the primary safeguard of peace and security in a nuclear age. The Helsinki Final Act of 1975 reinforced these principles by adding to them the principle of the inviolability of borders.

These are fundamental principles and they have universal application. They cannot be set aside because of special cases or because they present an obstacle to the policy objectives of a powerful nation. Their message is simple and clear --borders cannot be changed without the consent of the state involved.
In the spring of 1999 the U.S.-led NATO countries intervened militarily in Kosovo and, in violation of the UN Charter, bombed Serbia. The bombing was justified on allegations that genocide and ethnic cleansing were taking place in Kosovo. We now know these allegations were completely unfounded.'
etc
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8126

I have too get into this one! That Ass-Hole can eat S$#@! I PRAY the American People Wake The Hell Up and Kick these Ass-Holes out of our government that, We The People Control! We are waking them up and believe me, we are going to start cleaning Our House!

I couldn't believe what he was demanding after Bush Senior tried to destroy your country along with his Son Clinton! Can't forget faggot Clark!

People need to watch " Kay Griggs Talks: Desperate Wives (Blackmail in US Government Part 1 & 2)" at

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-341031042963487862&q=kay+griggs

Now you may understand about that ass-hole Clark..

I pray for your Country and pray you get back your most precious part that was STOLEN from you's. God Bless/Watch over all you Wonderful Serbs.

Roach please don't talk for me, I beg you, please! The American people have not turned away from the Palestians as you state, hell, the American people don't even know what's occurring over there!

The only time they hear about that part of the world is when a jew that SAYS He's a JEW is killed, bombed, or whatever! They are not shown whose the ones doing the real killing! It makes me so sick that those EX-JEWS can do such things to HUMAN BEINGS! I can't wait for the day we run them out of our country. Even if it takes blood spilled.

Besides, the US Embassey is filled with CIA FOLKS! SO LET IT ROLL!

Sigh! Isn't it amazing? I was watching the various American news coverage of the happenings in Beograd and was astounded that the reporters were astounded at the vehemence displayed by the Serbs. The reporters just couldn't wrap their minds around the fact that the 'evil, "murderous asshole" Serbs', would DARE to stand up against the 'sole, unipolar hyperpower' in the world. Do these people read? Do they know any history, of any country, even their own? Have they never heard of the happenings in Beograd on March 27, 1941?