The 'thousands' have been debunked see Cockburn.  The US DID kill
thousands in its recent shrapnel bombing of civilians in Jugo.
wcm>
> J.- your question is a difficult one to answer, and a good one to have
> asked.
>
> <My question is seperate. What should the people of Yugoslovia do? Is it
> better to support an American-backed candidate who may not have the
> people's best interests at heart, or to support someone possibly
> responsible for killing thousands of innocent people?>
>
> Let me begin by saying that I have posted recently to the Chomsky list,
> about the US manipulation of 3 different elections.... Mexico, Peru, and
> Yugoslavia.
>
> In the case of Mexico I have relatives who were PRI supporters, and I
> personally was able to visit Mexico at the time of the July election.
> I did not exactly feel a sense of liberation or jublation at the victory
> of the US sponsored candidate, Vicente Fox.    And this, despite the
> regime of terrorism and dictatorship that Mexico had from the PRI for
> over 70 years.
>
> In Yugoslavia, something similar is going on, despite the major
> differences between the two countries.      Much of the support for the
> 'opposition' comes from a desire to find and take an avenue that might
> lead away from more direct confrontation with US war and economic
> sabotage.     It is not so much direct hatred for Milosevic, though
> there is plenty of that to go around.
>
> Milosevic leads a leadership clique that took their power, and have made
> a mess of defending the nationalized sectors of property in Yugoslavia.
> This is similar to the criminal PRI element in Mexico, who looted the
> public wealth in operations like PEMEX (oil), and used this to enrich a
> tiny group of operators (Salinas de Gortari/ Milosevic families).
> There is a huge sector in both countries that would co-operate with the
> devil himself to get rid of these types of gangsters.
>
> In the case of Peru, it is even harder to get animated against the US
> manipulation of its internal affairs.     Especially when it seems that
> for the US to do so, would appear to mean getting rid of an element like
> Fujimori.      I see something simiar here, to what happened with how
> the Left went ahead and allowed the Australian government to move into
> East Timor, all the while applauding.
>
> The key is for US/ Australia/ Western European activists not to get
> bogged down in anything other than for fighting for self determination
> for those areas where their OWN governments want to make dictates.
> And wish the best for all those activists in those areas that have been
> devastated by imperialist manipulations and plots.
>
> Tony Abdo
>