Milosevic's Death Abruptly Ends Tribunal

Wow.... well I guess that is what happens when you let dictators being tried for war crime prolong their trials for 8 years.

This sounds remarkable, but although I can see the conspiracy theories brewing already, I believe this is indeed just 'bad luck'. Maybe the stress of being locked-up in combination with heart problems already present, finally broke this man. His type of people deal very badly with losing the power they have so greatly relied on and that they so badly need (in their own muddled opinion of course).

I see no truth in his brother's criticism. I think that the UN is very cautious about this and offers rather very good health care to people in its custody.

Why does Newsvine attract so many strange nuts? Is it the anonymity? What would their mother think of their "brilliant" commentary?

Great man...it is a shame he was labeled a criminal

I guess I must be dumb or something but I don't see how this post has anything to do with President Bush. Man some people take any chance they can get to bad mouth Bush.

yeh who would have thought sanctioning the ethnic cleansing of a whole people would annoy so many governments or starting war after war for expansion and putting men, women and children to their deaths. burying there bodies outside forests in mass graves would have been illegal?? He wasn't a great man he was a ruthless man.

@strange brew: What? Seriously, WHAT?

@rodeo: I've seen better trolls. Better luck next time.

ballew74 -> the interrelation is simple, president bush is as responsible for war crimes in former yugoslavia as slobodan milosevic is. both are dictators, one is world-wise, another one local.

rockman -> let 'strange nuts' speak for themselves. i can tell you what attracts me:
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"All responsibility for this lies on the shoulders of the international tribunal. He asked for treatment several months ago, they knew this," he told The Associated Press. "They drove him to this as they didn't want to let him out alive."

Milosevic asked the court in December to let him go to Moscow for treatment. But the tribunal refused, despite assurances from Russia that Milosevic would return to finish his trial.

Gosh. Poor guy. At least he had the decency to croak and save the U.N.a few bucks.

@Richard H: Excising leeches from your country is not a crime

Genocide won't be the same without him...

So did they deny him treatment altogether, or did he receive treatment from The Hague?

strange brew writes:

ballew74 -> the interrelation is simple, president bush is as responsible for war crimes in former yugoslavia as slobodan milosevic is. both are dictators, one is world-wise, another one local.

No stangebrew I really don't see how bush has anything to do with the mass genocide.I think I read the conflict ended in 1999, one year before the 2000 election so unless you have an example I won't believe your point.

It's a shame we didn't get a chance to hang him. You might as well called Milosevic the chief justice of the tribunal the way he ran the show.

"No death penalty! We're Better than that!" Yeah ok. He only was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents. Oh well, spilt milk. Maybe this will teach us a lesson in another certain war criminal on trial now. Speed it up guys!

strange brew wrote:

the interrelation is simple, president bush is as responsible for war crimes in former yugoslavia as slobodan milosevic is. both are dictators, one is world-wise, another one local.

Are you serious? Are you even American? Because I know our public school system needs work, but at least our kids get taught the difference between 1999 and 2000. You're just trolling, and if you're actually serious, then I hope you've enjoyed your short stay here. No one will take you seriously.

For those of you who feel sympathetic to Mr. Milosevic, consider yourselves duped by the picture that accompanies this story. That puppy dog face is the same facade that kept him in power for so long. Milosevic ran Yugoslavia and it's people into the ground. He spent 8 years in prison being fed, clothed and sheltered for FREE. What did the thousands of refugees that either died or were misplaced get?

An interesting glimpse into the reality of what happened.

Geesh, It amazes me how quickly people forget pain and suffering.

For those of you who feel sympathetic to Mr. Milosevic, consider yourselves duped by the picture that accompanies this story.

I must have missed something. Are there Slobo-mourners here?

Walt: I was refering to comments like

"Great man...it is a shame he was labeled a criminal"

and

wow... this hipocritical tribunal's fastly turning into fascist kind death camp.

Is it right to rejoice that another evil man has gone down? Would that make the world safer? I hope!

If world peace needs that, then I hope more scum dissolves.

ballew74 wrote:
no stangebrew I really don't see how bush has anything to do with the mass genocide.

that's so funny. you have to pretend to be blind and deaf not to acknowledge the mass genocide against the people in aphganistan and iraq. accomplished under the rule of bush.

but i have to agree that bush has nothing to do with the nato bombing genocide in yugoslavia, except that he didn't pronounce a single word of its (nato bombing genocide which killed about 2 hundred civilians) disapproval during the 2000 election.

Oh, I get it...

The Bush/Cheney/Rove neocon conspiracy is so deep and its reach is so vast that it even controlled Americaqn foreign policy when Clinton was president! Wow!

/sarcasm

Milosevic did war crimes indeed. I wanted him to stay in prison for life, but it is sad that he did not get fully charged and convicted before his death. 8 years trial? that's ridiculous.

@ strange brew

Not even the anti-American embezzlers in the UN have claimed that there is "mass genocide" in either Iraq or Afghanistan (though they did find Iraq to be a site of genocide under Saddam Hussein). In fact, the vast majority of Afghans are delighted at the way things turned out.

America would have to be a lot more efficiently bloodthirsty to catch up to Hussein's standards.

Perhaps if American forces did not spend time on things like this, they could get back to wanton killing. /sarcasm

strange brew writes

but i have to agree that bush has nothing to do with the nato bombing genocide in yugoslavia, except that he didn't pronounce a single word of its (nato bombing genocide which killed about 2 hundred civilians) disapproval during the 2000 election.

What you just wrote here made no sense. You did nothing but make me even more sure of my stance that Bush is not a war criminal on par with Milly. Who I say deserved to die the same death as the thousands of people he so ruthlessly had murdered. And if there is a afterlife should rot in hell.

*sigh*
...and yet another thread finds its way onto the the old familiar, completely irrelevant path of whether Bush is in fact Lex Luthor.