Will all respect, the only two statements we can say with any real certainty
Is that Alito and Roberts would not be on the bench.
Believe it or not, all wars are not the same, repelling an invasion in to a sovereign nation by an aggressor nation is as night and day to invading a nation based on lies and deceit, Iraq invade Kuwait and the U.S. along with a coalition of allies kicked them out.
In regards to Bosnia, NATO's intervention ended the war which had already killed approximately 100,000 people included 20,000-50,000 mass rapes and ethnic cleansing or war crimes committed mostly by the Serbs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_War
It was principally a territorial conflict, initially between the Serb forces mostly organized in the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) on the one side, and the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) which was largely composed of Bosniaks, and the Croat forces in the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) on the other side. The Croats also aimed at securing parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina as Croatian.[15] The Serb and Croat political leadership agreed on a partition of Bosnia with the Karađorđevo and Graz agreements, resulting in the Croat forces turning against the ARBiH and the Croat-Bosniak war.[16]
The war was characterized by bitter fighting, indiscriminate shelling of cities and towns, ethnic cleansing and systematic mass rape, mostly led by Serb and, to a lesser extent, Croat[17] and Bosniak[18] forces. Events such as the Siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre would become iconic of the conflict.
The Serbs, although initially superior due to the vast amount of weapons and resources provided by the JNA, eventually lost momentum as the Bosniaks and Croats allied themselves against the Republika Srpska in 1994 with the creation of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina following the Washington agreement.
After the Srebrenica and Markale massacres, NATO intervened in 1995 with Operation Deliberate Force targeting the positions of the Army of the Republika Srpska, which proved key in ending the war.[19][20] The war was brought to an end after the signing of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina in Paris on 14 December 1995. Peace negotiations were held in Dayton, Ohio, and were finalized on 21 December 1995. The accords are now known as the Dayton Agreement.[21]
According to a report compiled by the UN, and chaired by M. Cherif Bassiouni, while all sides committed war crimes during the conflict, Serbian forces were responsible for ninety per cent of them, whereas Croatian forces were responsible for six per cent, and Muslim forces four percent.[22] The report echoed conclusions published by a Central Intelligence Agency estimate in 1995.[23][24] As of early 2008, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia had convicted 45 Serbs, 12 Croats and 4 Bosniaks of war crimes in connection with the war in Bosnia.[25]
The most recent figures suggest that around 100,000 people were killed during the war.[26][27] In addition, an estimated total of 20,000 to 50,000 women were raped,[28] and over 2.2 million people were displaced,[29] making it the most devastating conflict in Europe since the end of World War II.
Scalia was unanimously confirmed by the Senate, in this Gore wasn't alone, Scalia didn't have the paper trail of Bork which was Reagan's other consideration and the Judiciary Committee went easy on him after a bitter fight over the Rehnquist nomination.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Scalia
In 1986, Scalia was appointed by Reagan to the Supreme Court to fill the associate justice seat vacated when Justice William Rehnquist was elevated to Chief Justice. Whereas Rehnquist's confirmation was contentious, Scalia was asked few difficult questions by the Senate Judiciary Committee, and faced no opposition.
Scalia was unanimously confirmed by the Senate, becoming the first Italian-American justice.[2]
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When Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Scalia's nomination opened in August 1986, he faced a committee that had just wrangled over the Rehnquist nomination. Witnesses and Democratic senators contended that, before becoming a judge, Rehnquist had engaged in activities designed to discourage minorities from voting. Committee members had little taste for a second battle over Scalia and were in any event reluctant to oppose the first Italian-American Supreme Court nominee.[29] The judge was not pressed heavily on controversial issues such as abortion or civil rights.[30] Scalia, who attended the hearing with his wife and nine children seated behind him, found time for a humorous exchange with Democratic Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum, whom Scalia had defeated in a tennis match in, as the nominee put it, "a case of my integrity overcoming my judgment".[31]
Scalia met no opposition from the committee. The full Senate debated Scalia's nomination only briefly, and he was confirmed 98–0 on September 17, 1986, becoming the first Italian-American justice.[2] This vote followed Rehnquist's confirmation as Chief Justice by a vote of 65–33 on the same day. He took his seat on September 26, 1986. One committee member, Democratic Delaware Senator (and future Vice President) Joe Biden, later stated that he regretted not having opposed Scalia "because he was so effective".[32]
Having said that there is also major difference between having to confirm or deny a candidate to the SC which will inevitably be chosen from a pool by the President versus actually being the President and having the right to select said candidate to the SC.
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gotta laugh or I would cry.
