> [via Sam Smith's Progressive Review]
>
> I think no power to your refrigerator, no gas to your stove, you can't get
> to work because the bridge is down - the bridge on which you held your
> rock
> concerts and you all stood with targets on your heads. That needs to
> disappear at three o'clock in the morning." - U.S. Air Force General
> Michael
> Short in Yugoslavia, May, 1999
.
or these...
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"If President Milosevic really wants all of his population to have water and electricity, all he has to do is accept NATO's five conditions and we will stop this campaign."
-- NATO spokesman Jamie Shea
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A front-page article last year by Washington Post reporter Dana Priest ("Bombing by Committee: France Balked at NATO Targets," 9/20/99) recounted the decision-making processes behind several NATO targeting decisions. According to Priest, at one point, British "Foreign Secretary Robin Cook questioned strikes on power lines affecting a large hospital in Belgrade. But the group brought him around."