Kosovo to honor Bill Clinton with statue

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070523/...o_clinton_dc_1

By Fatos Bytyci
Wed May 23, 9:03 AM ET



PODUJEVO, Serbia (Reuters) - Kosovo Albanians plan to honor their "savior" Bill Clinton by erecting a statue of the former United States president in the capital of Serbia's breakaway province.

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The three-meter (10-foot) tall monument is still under construction in a studio in Podujevo north of Pristina.

"He is our savior. He saved us from extermination," sculptor Izeir Mustafa told Reuters. "I was thrilled by the work because I know what he did for us."

Kosovo has been under U.N. administration since 1999 after 78 days of NATO bombing ousted Serb troops who had killed some 10,000 ethnic Albanians in an 18-month counter-insurgency war against Albanian separatist guerrillas.

Ninety percent of Kosovo's 2 million people are ethnic Albanians. They expect to get their own state in the coming months with U.S. and European Union support, despite the opposition of Serbia and its main ally, Russia.

Clinton, as leader of the NATO alliance, is seen as the man who decided to bomb Serbia to force the late strongman Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his forces from Kosovo, effectively handing victory to the Kosovo Liberation Army.

Pristina already has a road named after him, graced by a 12-metre (25 foot) tall mural of the former president. Pristina municipal authorities say they expect to erect the statue somewhere along Clinton Boulevard later this summer.

Mustafa has several more days to work before he bronzes the sculpture of Clinton, after which he will turn his attention to another soon-to-be former Western leader. . "I definitely will do a statue of (British Prime Minister) Tony Blair," he said. "He saved us as well."

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Still waiting for that statue of Reagan in Germany since he crushed communism...

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my guess is they won't be erecting any Clinton statues in Rwanda...

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Still waiting for that statue of Reagan in Germany since he crushed communism...

well I don t know if u remember, but it was not an altruistic move. the us fought communism and Germany was just the place of action since `45...

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well I don t know if u remember, but it was not an altruistic move. the us fought communism and Germany was just the place of action since `45...

lectures on altruism from the country that gave us Hitler?

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So will the statue have pants?

Still waiting for that statue of Reagan in Germany since he crushed communism...

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lectures on altruism from the country that gave us Hitler?

sorry, that was before my time but you shouldn t be talking to loud about altruism neither after the history of wars after '45 latest masterpiece: destabilisation of a whole region full of crazy islamist. and you wonder why so many ppl are pissed off of the US/UK? only one word: bigotry.

and by the way ya-should improve your history knowledge: hitler was austrian

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sorry, that was before my time but you shouldn t be talking to loud about altruism neither after the history of wars after '45 latest masterpiece: destabilisation of a whole region full of crazy islamist. and you wonder why so many ppl are pissed off of the US/UK? only one word: bigotry.

and by the way ya-should improve your history knowledge: hitler was austrian

My old roommate was Austrian. She was crazy to.

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"and by the way ya-should improve your history knowledge: hitler was austrian"

Born in Austria, but it was the fact that he got the people of Germany to follow him that is relevant.
As for destabilizing the middle east, that began when the world felt the need to find a place to put the handful of Jews the Germans didn't gas...

Maybe we'll all be better off when the Chinese are running to world?

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"and by the way ya-should improve your history knowledge: hitler was austrian"

Born in Austria, but it was the fact that he got the people of Germany to follow him that is relevant.
As for destabilizing the middle east, that began when the world felt the need to find a place to put the handful of Jews the Germans didn't gas...

Maybe we'll all be better off when the Chinese are running to world?

nope. the iran/iraq conflict etc etc has nothing to do with the jews. it has to do with former colonization by the british empire. irans and iraqs border are no "natural borders" between two cultures. shiites and sunnites are on both sides and that causes the trouble. same shit as in former yugoslavia.

and as I remember there were a lot of incidents after some country gave money and weapons to iraq and iran in the '70s...who was that again?

and I don t even wann start about everything else that has happend in the middle east that had not to do with the jews, but with the US...

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I have been to Iraq twice and I must say that the amount of German enginnering there was hard to overlook.(according to the German newspaper die tageszeitung Germany was the key supplier to Iraq's Weapons Programs through 2001)
Virtually all nations on the UN Security Council did business with Saddam.
The US and UK are far from perfect, but lectures from Germany are silly.

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we have france to thank for hitler. cant blame the german people.

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I have been to Iraq twice and I must say that the amount of German enginnering there was hard to overlook.(according to the German newspaper die tageszeitung Germany was the key supplier to Iraq's Weapons Programs through 2001)
Virtually all nations on the UN Security Council did business with Saddam.
The US and UK are far from perfect, but lectures from Germany are silly.

that s bs. every country has made faults. this shouldn t stop one to question wut allies are doing. I know u take this as blasphemy but democracy works both ways - and it s working very well in Germany.

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I agree with you there XXX

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that s bs. every country has made faults. this shouldn t stop one to question wut allies are doing. I know u take this as blasphemy but democracy works both ways - and it s working very well in Germany.

then it's a good thing that the allies installed democracy there

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that has nothing to do with it. don t u have real arguments