Milosevic was an outstanding politician who gave his all to serving his fatherland.
It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.
The time of Milosevic has long passed.
I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.
But we acted pre-emptively in Kosovo in 1999 to stop Milosevic from doing what he was doing and increasingly doing the ethnic cleansing in a systematic way.
You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.
Throughout his life, General Wesley Clark has stood up to some tough opponents. He battled the Viet Cong, and went toe-to-toe with Slobodan Milosevic. But today the retired four-star general capitulated to the fiercest enemy he's ever confronted: the American voter.
In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.
The so-called world knows everything about Slobodan Milosevic. The so-called world knows the truth. But I don't know the truth. But I watch. I feel. I remember. I question.
I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?
"I tell you," he [Milosevic] continued, "Izetbegovic has earned Sarajevo by not abandoning it. He's one tough guy. It's his". These words were probably the most astonishing and unexpected of the conference.
The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.
It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment.
We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men.
It is of major importance for the future of our country that through his defence and the fact he died without being convicted, Milosevic had managed to defend national and state interest.
Take a look at the bombing of Serbia in 1999. The US was quite open about the reasons for the bombing. A main reason was to preserve stability and credibility. Serbia was interfering with stability, meaning that it was the one part of the Balkans that was not integrated into the Western-dominated (mostly US-dominated) system.
The fact is that there was a long war in which Serbia and its capital Belgrade were bombarded and attacked with missiles. It was a military intervention of the West and NATO against the then rump Yugoslavia.
The truth is the President of the United States used the same device that Slobodan Milosevic used in Serbia. When you appeal to homophobia, when you appeal to sexism, when you appeal to racism, that is extraordinarily damaging to the country.
