Clinton in his (in part ) mad effort to change the Monica subject
killed over 2000 civilians in Jugoslavia.  We had warning, during his
\first campaign he executed a mental defective to prove (if proof were
needed) that he could be brutal.
wcm>
> Dan Koenig wrote:
>
> >Will we ever know?  Could AI have been deliberately fed false
> >information? Certainly there was more than adequate incentive to do so.
> >I don't profess to know the answer, but the relative absence of bodies
> >is puzzling, isn't it, especially with all of the amazing odor
> >detection, heat and chemical sensing, etc. high tech of the U.S., both
> >on the ground and from the sky.
>
> We've disagreed on this before Dan, but actual physical murder of people is
> not required for it to be genocide. The last of the Kosovar refugees, the
> ones driven out of the country en-masse by the Yugoslavian government, are
> now being sent back from the refugee camps around the world, including one
> here in Tasmania.
>
> Which reminds me that, back in the 19th century, the genocidal campaign
> against the Tasmanian aborigines, possibly one of the most "successful"
> acts of genocide in human history, (in the sense that the only Tasmanian
> Aborigines that survive today are of mixed European ancestry) included the
> deportation of the entire aboriginal population to one of the isolated Bass
> Strait islands. The two or three survivors of that deportation were
> returned to the mainland a few decades later, hardly anyone was actually
> murdered, but it was genocide all the same.
>
> I don't mean to imply that murder was or wasn't occurring, merely that it
> is not crucial to the case.
>
> Bill Bartlett
> Bracknell Tas.
>