NATO's "mistakes" - a list

[Michael Hoover]

> Nathan Newman wrote:
> >220 killed.  One person killed is a tragedy but this is an incredibly low
> >civilian death rate given how much bombing has been done.  That is one-tenth
> >the number of Kosovars killed last year (by the lowest estimate available)
> >that many on the left have said was too insignificant to justify
> >intervention.
> 
> Spoken like an accountant. Appealing to the spirit of accountancy, rather
> than a critique of imperialism, a couple of points: the 2000 dead in Kosovo
> includes lots of KLA combantants, while the 220 count is purely civilian;
> we're talking 40 days vs. a full year; and we're not counting invisible and
> future casualties from pollution, uranium, etc.
> Doug

the 2000 number for 1998 also includes Kosovar Albanians killed by the KLA 
either because they were targeted as 'collaborators' with the established
regime or because their deaths were provocations in which killings were
blamed on Yugoslav forces...and about 200 Serbs were killed in Kosovo in 
1998 which makes the ratio of deaths consistent with the ratio of Serbs to 
ethnic Albanians in the region...Michael Hoover