Reply #11: If you want to know why this thread was started .....

[FrenchieCat]

Go here to find posters (found in this same thread here) who do not agree with Kucinich in reference to whether genocide was actually happening and that NATO went to war because it wanted to. Posters who needed 100,000 dead before genocide should be recognized as such.

Kucinich does believe that the mission was of a humanitarian nature.....but that war can only compound and not necessarily solve the real issues at hand.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1522940&mesg_id=1522940

Kucinich is a pacifist and therefore took a principled stance....but by no means did he believe that humanitarian assistance was not needed in Kosovo....nor did Kucinich believe that Molosovic was somehow a reasonable person who's only crime was that of refusing to allow Western capitalism to enter his country.

That was the point of the PRO Milosovic/Rasmey Clark/Schomsky crowd were making initially. And actually, if you look at top of the thread, that is still what they maintain. I believe that Dennis Kucinich believed that Kosovar were being terrorized and driven out of Kosovo...and killed....and raped....and their homes burned down, because if he didn't believe that....he would have just called the Kosovo war "a war fought under false pretenses" if that's what was truly happening. He didn't....but instead felt that the war was not the way to solve the problem that he did believe existed.

Here's another passage in where he urges Clinton to do something about Kosovo....
ON JANUARY 19, I arrived in the chamber of the House of Representatives, hours before the State of the Union address, to get an aisle seat, hoping to have a chance to say a few words to the President about Kosovo before his speech. In the split second he passed by I urged him not to forget Kosovo. "I won't," he replied, "I am going to say something tonight." In a single sentence he did speak of ending repression, bringing responsible parties to justice, and establishing self-government for the province. On January 30, the North Atlantic Council permitted NATO Secretary General Javier Solana to authorize air strikes against Yugoslavia.
http://www.progressive.org/kuc899.htm