Drowsy Emperor

No, I tend to favour moccasin style slippers.. and a good traditional english sleeping gown (of which my current one is rather darth sideous styling) Are you also, by any chance a hobbit?

Raithe you remind me of fluffy pink slippers. Do you have a pair?

I'm not worried about the "bad things", I'm worried about the disbalance of post conflict justice and the eternal perpetuation of one sided guilt in a three (and more) sided war. Did you know that there was an armed fraction withing the Bosnian Muslims (commanded by Fikret Abdic) that fought for the preservation of Yugoslavia and was allied with the Bosnian Serb army? Heh we had a muslim commander and a part of the muslim population fighting on our side and they call us genocidal. Of course, he was later tried for war crimes.

Answering a particular topic in very broad terms "atrocities were commited on a broad scale" does not automatically render the discussion moot. Srebrenica is the axis of all Balkan wars propaganda. Its the myth that built the whole good and evil fantasy that the conflict was supposed to exemplify. If it falls, everything else comes into question. To vilify only one side in a conflict, on unproven allegations and outright falsehoods cannot be seen as other than covering up one's own guilt and the dubiousness of the supposed moral superiority of the accuser. Indeed, why invent large scale atrocities in the first place? Why blow out of proportion everything about Srebrenica?

I don't see why you need to steep to ridicule, without even considering the evidence at hand.

Lol, no tapes, ever! Leave no evidence. If Angelina Jolie herself wanted to blow me and tape it, I'd refuse. Besides, you're likely to get nervous in front of cameras and make the whole event hilarous. Get her to blow you without cameras, get her hot and bothered so that you might have a shot at something more and then leave that psychopathic relationship before it comes back to hit you on the head. Obivously, at your place or a hotel. That's what I'd do. No one needs a girl who will blow random guys saying that her bf wants to watch. For all you know she could be doing it to get back at him, and you could end up a casualty.

Or just masturbation with inappropriate objects. Fleshlight is key.

It doesnt beat trying to manouver around a parked car only to put you leg in a shallow hole and bust your knee 2 weeks in plaster for that

Beware of poisonous insects, snakes etc. There is some pretty nasty stuff in CR if I recall. Ask to be briefed on the issue.

There really is no clever way to injure oneself

We must not fail to mention that the Witcher 2 is better than anything Dragon Age

There is no other way. Without documentation it boils down to who believes what and then a flame war ensues. I don't want that. I believe the west was misled by a select group within the Clinton administration and Bosnian Muslim leadership into picking a side in a civil war against one that was not hostile to them or their interests. In fact, of the entire eastern block it could be said that the Croats and the Serbs most of all admired the US prior to the events in the Balkan wars. The same cannot be said of the BM, given that eyewitness testimony puts none other than Osama bin Laden, in Sarajevo - meeting the BM leadership. Indeed, it is also said that he was issued a Bosnian passport! All this just a few years before 9/11.

The very ICTY is full of strange contradictions: Theodor Meron, presiding judge: 1. He says 40000 people were targeted for extinction 2. He says muslim males were systematically executed This is a contradiction. If the women, children and wounded were released (and that is obvious because he fails to mention them) then how could 40000 people be targeted for extinction? That leaves the number a gross falsehood. Also by "seeking to eliminate a part of Srebrenica muslims, BS commited genocide". This is contradictory to the definition of genocide, seen as systematic destruction, widespread and targeting an entire group. It is also contradictory to the "40000 muslims" claim. Compiled with the NGO findings on Srebrenica post attack population the entire claim is revealed to be unsubstantiated. Therefore the entire claim is purely political in nature.

Thus the ruling of the court is fundamentally political in nature, as the supposed genocide could not be proven and contradicts the very definition of genocide used by those courts. Genocide requires intent and systematic destruction, which the aforementioned example of the enclave Zepa clearly negates. I will restate the gist of that event for you: Muslim forces negotiate a surrender in the enclave of Zepa Again (the "again" means: as in Srebrenica) the women, children and wounded were safely transported by bus to Muslim areas. The men were either evacuated with the women and children or went via Serbia itself which lies just across the River Drina. I will also restate one commonly known point. At the beginning of the war the Bosnian Serb Army had at one point controlled almost the entirety of Bosnia. If there was genocidal intent, the civilian muslim population would have been wiped out in a matter of weeks, well before the west, or anyone, could react. I'm sorry Krezack but that article consists of nothing but verbal abuse and a single argument: -"We have names of xy missing on xy lists" To that I answer this: Source is Jonathan Rooper former BBC news reporter As for rape, theft and murder and other individual "small scale" crimes that are common to a large war, the individuals from all sides who participated in a war, and did such things should be tried as is common to all civilized nations. I think there are enough reports from all three sides of individuals participating in such deeds, that we can leave those out of this discussion. It is a terrible by product of a drawn out war (3 years!). The number of Serbian women who have been raped is frighteningly high, yet has not been given a split second of media time, nor have many of the participants been charged, or indeed any that I know off. If you're suggesting a widespread policy of systematic rape, that is unfortunately typical war propaganda of the sort fabricated to induce revulsion. There is no proof of any such thing, audio, visual or document. As it would be a massive undertaking, some form of evidence would have to exist. It is nonsense.

Every army has some opportunists, criminals and borderline psychotics in its ranks. Its in the nature of the job to attract such types and no amount of screening is going to weed all of them out.

I failed to elaborate on the man behind the book:

Is the highest ranking civillian UN official during the conflict reputable enough for you?

You missed the point. There was an intent that the women and children be spared from the conflict, this is well documented. That left only men of fighting age, amply armed from the conflicts preceding the attack on Srebrenica. Since most of the men of Srebrenica were fighters in the paramilitary unit of Naser Oric, they could hardly be called "innocent", as regular combatants in the war. Therefore it is not genocide. To presume that 800 deaths, most of which are combat related are somehow genocide is to equate that with Nazi genocide over the Jews and that is an insult to the latter. Srebrenica is a case of, at best, unlawful killing of POW's - to the total number of several hundred.

In this topic I'm just copy pasting what a reputable individual that was also external to the conflict has to say as I read through the book. Personally, I'm sure of both. Because even if we go all the way with the west's Srebrenica mythology, even there its noted that women and children were spared the so called "executions" and removed with buses by the order of Mladic himself. Therefore it is not genocide, even if you believe the mainstream version, because genocide requires the intent to destroy the entire population of the target group and that intent is lacking. You do not commit genocide by showing mercy to half of your supposed target group. Intent, critical to genocide, is lacking in Srebrenica, and it is lacking in other contested territories as well. Indeed. I assume this is just a more thorough version.

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New X-Men. Garbage.

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Al Kaida was made by the US+UK+Saudis to combat Soviets in Afghanistan and has since been used as a vanguard/support in the destabilization of countries opposed to US, even post 9/11. cites many major news publications and even a video of a major Al Kaida commander present at dinner in Pentagon with top US brass several months after 9-11 accuses US of sliding into totalitarism

A most informative study of the events surrounding and culminating in Srebrenica done by a UN offical: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?con...a&aid=25112 Scroll down for 300 page pdf, or read the foreword for a general idea.