by: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources, (http://www.originalsources.com)
October 5, 2000
On Tuesday night in the Bush-Gore Debate, Jim Lehrer asked: "Vice President Gore, if President Milosevic of Yugoslavia refuses to accept the election results and leave office, what action, if any, should the United States take to get him out of there?"
Gore responded:
"Well, Milosevic has lost the election. His opponent, Kostunica, has won the election. It's overwhelming. Milosevic's government refuses to release the vote count.…The people of Serbia have acted very bravely in kicking this guy out of office. Now he is trying to not release the votes and then goes straight to a so-called runoff election without even announcing the results of the first vote."
This is simply not true and Al Gore surely knows he is not telling the truth. Milosevic's government released the vote count, which was approved by over 200 foreign poll watchers, on September 28th - within the legal framework of the nation's election law and it was published not only in Yugoslavia and announced on Yugoslavia's electronic media, but worldwide on the Internet. (www.serbia-info.com) The votes were not counted by machine as they are in America. They were counted by people opening ballots and making tallies. With over 5 million votes, that is impossible to do within a few hours of the polls closing.
Now, I'm not in a position to say whether the vote tally was accurate or not. However, there were over 200 foreigners from 52 nations observing that tally. They released a report published on October 1st which stated, according to Belgrade media:
"Elections in FR Yugoslavia on September 24th were held according to legal rules and went in best order, although these presidential, federal and local elections were at the same time, foreign observers, who were in our country during the elections."According to the statement which gives their joint opinion, many of the observers said that the electoral process was equal or even better than those held in their states.
"Those 210 foreign observers that monitored elections in FR Yugoslavia included present and former parliamentarians, representatives of political parties and organizations, as well as journalists, students and activists.
"They monitored electoral activities from rallies to the polling held on September 24th and many of them had the opportunity to meet leaders of different political parties and to be present at different presidential campaigns.
"In an announcement, which the media received yesterday from an observer from Canada, it is said that the marks given in the announcement are the result of an observers`agreement, that the signing is in progress and that observers from 23 countries have already signed the document"
The presidential election results, published on September 28, were as follows:
According to the final results from 10,673 polling stations, from total of 7,249,831 registered voters, 5,053,428 voters or 69,7 percent voted. The percentage of invalid ballots was 2,68.The presidential candidates won the following number of votes:
Miodrag Vidojkovic 46,421 or 0.92 percent
Dr.Vojislav Kostunica 2,474,392 or 48.96 percent (DOS)
Slobodan Milosevic 1,951,761 or 38.62 percent (SPS)
Vojislav Mihailovic 146,585 or 2.90 percent
Tomislav Nikolic 292,759 or 5.,79 percentOn the basis of these results, the Federal Electoral Commission took note that none of the candidates won the necessary majority of votes in the first round and that a runoff presidential election will be held October 8th according to the law.
Are all those observers from 52 nations lying? That's also possible, of course. Not very probable, but possible. On the other side we have a candidate backed by millions of American dollars who claims HE won. And the same American media that supported Clinton's "humanitarian bombing" of Yugoslavia because he claimed there was a "genocide" where "up to 100,000 Albanians" had been killed by the Serbs, of course is not reporting ANYTHING the foreign poll watchers said. All they are writing about is how Kostunica says HE won. So, if he won, where are the figures and where are the independent observers to ratify those figures?
It should be obvious to all by now that there WAS no genocide in Kosovo. Again, pathologists from scores of nations combed the cemeteries of Kosovo looking for those genocide victims. So far, only about 2300 corpses have been found - not 100,000 - and many of those corpses are turning out to be kidnapped Serbs buried in mass graves since NATO has been occupying Kosovo. So, the Western media isn't exactly a shining example of accurate reporting where Yugoslavia is concerned.
However, there is another vote, totally ignored by the West, which can give us a clue on who's lying and who isn't. There also was a parliamentary election. Apparently, the Kostunica group is not questioning those results. Yet, they seem to closely match the percentages given by the Election Commission for each of the six political parties that fielded a presidential candidate. It is obvious that Kostunica's party did NOT win over 50% of the seats in parliament. Tanjug reported, four days after the election:
BELGRADE, September 28 - The Yugoslav Federal Electoral Commission held a session today at which it published final parliamentary poll results for the seats in the Chamber of Citizens of the Federal Parliament and for the seats in the Chamber of Republic of the Federal Parliament in the year 2000, the Federal Parliament statement reported.The seats in the Chamber of Citizens (comparable to our House of Representatives) are thus distributed:
- Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) - 55 seats (Kostunica's party)
- Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) - Yugoslav Left JUL - Slobodan Milosevic - 46 seats
- Serbian Radical Party (SRS) - Vojislav Seselj - 4 seats
- Socialist People's Party (SNP) of Montenegro - Momir Bulatovic - 28 seats
- Alliance for Peace - Sokol Chuse - 1 seat
- Party of Serbian Unity - Borislav Pelevic - 1 seat
- Serbian People's Party - Zelidrag Nikcevic - 2 seats.This indicates that Kostunica will have 55 seats in parliament and Milosevic and other Socialist parties will have 80. The minor parties will have 8 seats. When the Constitution was changed recently in Yugoslavia to have the president elected nationally by the people, instead of being chosen by the winning political parties, it also required that there be a clear 50+1 majority for the president, calling for a run off to determine that majority if there was no majority in the first round.
The seats in the Chamber of Republic (comparable to our Senate) are thus distributed: In the Yugoslav republic of Serbia:
- Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) - 10 seats
- Serbian Radical Party (SRS) - Vojislav Seselj - 2 seats
- Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) - Yugoslav Left JUL - Slobodan Milosevic - 7 seats
-Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) - Vuk Draskovic - 1 seat.In the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro:
- Socialist People's Party (SNP) of Montenegro - Momir Bulatovic - 19 seats
- Serbian People's Party - Bozidar Bojovic - 1 seat.These results clearly show that a run-off election could very well go to Milosevic, since the various wings of the Socialist parties together will control the Parlliament and the various wings of the Socialist party will probably vote in the run-off for Milosevic.
It appears that Gore's "other means" to oust Milosevic include fomenting and financing trouble. This could very well lead to a shooting war in which Americans get killed. In fact, as Gavin Grooms, publisher of the Reagan Monitor noted, "Al Gore is advocating an illegal coup d'etat funded by the U.S. government. That is not something our country should become involved in."
This obviously explains why there is so much Western sponsored and financed protest going on to try to oust Milosevic before the run-off which takes place Sunday.
Last night not only did Gore lie about the election, but strongly hinted more military action if Milosevic does not give in to the demonstrators who are receiving, according to sources in Bulgaria and even the New York times, lots of your tax money to sway the votes in the Yugoslav election. Gore said in response to Lehrer's question:
"Now, we have to take measured steps because the sentiment within Serbia is, for understandable reasons, still against the United States because their nationalism has led -even if they don't like Milosevic, they still have some feeling lingering from NATO action there, so be have to be intelligent in the way we go about it."But make no mistake about it, we should do everything we can to see that the will of the Serbian people, expressed in this extraordinary election, is done, and I hope that he will be out of office very shortly."
It is an open secret in Europe that the U.S. government is helping to foment the demonstrations and the violence now occurring in Yugoslavia. On Sept. 20, even Steven Erlanger of the New York Times reported:
"Independent journalists and broadcasters here have been told by American aid officials "not to worry about how much they're spending now," that plenty more is in the pipeline, said one knowledgeable aid worker. Others in the opposition complain that the Americans are clumsy, sending e-mails from "state.gov" - the State Department's address - summoning people to impolitic meetings with American officials in Budapest, Montenegro or Dubrovnik, Croatia."Should your tax dollars be used to help plan the disruption of an election in another country? Apparently Al Gore thinks so, especially if it will continue to cover-up the Cinton-Gore administration lies about needing to bomb Yugoslavia because of a "genocide."
George W. Bush also addressed the question asked by Lehrer. He said:
"It's time for the man (Milosevic) to go, and it means that the United States must have a strong diplomatic hand with our friends in NATO."However, instead of suggesting US action, Bush opted to allow "the Russians to step up and lead" He said clearly, "But let me say this to you. I wouldn't use force. I wouldn't use force."
Gore responded with a clear threat to use force again in Yugoslavia:
"Just because we can't - don't want to get involved everywhere doesn't mean we should back off anywhere it comes up. And I disagree with the - with the proposal that maybe only when oil supplies are at stake, then our national security is at risk. I think that -that there are situations, like in Bosnia -or Kosovo, where there's a genocide, where our national security is at stake there."Only, there WAS no genocide. There was a civil war in which many people on both sides got killed. At this count, when the deaths from the NATO bombing are factored in, it appears more Serbs, Gypsies, and other ethnic groups were killed than Albanians. The genocide story apparently was launched to get another story off the headlines in March of 1999 - the story that Bill Clinton, while attorney general of Arkansas, raped Juanita Broaddrick. It was a success. We haven't seen any meaningful discussion since the NATO bombing of that rape story.
And what is being done in your good name, my fellow Americans, to cover- up the cover-up? What suffering has been caused in your name? Jared Israel, who has some of the best journalistic sources on what is happening in Yugoslavia that I've seen asks plaintively in a recent article (http://emperors-clothes.com/news/erlang.htm):
"What has the government of my country done to this world? What a spectacle, that this Washington, which bombed the good people of Yugoslavia, that blocks medicine from entering that country, that blocks Yugoslavia from importing spare parts to fix the bridges and hospitals the US bombed last year; that has put racist gangsters in charge of Kosovo - what a spectacle that this Washington now tries to bribe and coerce its way into controlling Yugoslavia. And once in control, what would Washington do to the Yugoslav people, who have been resisting Washington for ten years? Kosovo is the US government's model."Washington, with its 'democratic' this and its 'independent' that, and all the time they want to buy people, especially young people, corrupt them with the lure of gold. "When, and it will happen, the decent people of America learn that they have been lied to, when they learn what crimes are being committed in their name, may God help the U.S. State Department."
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