(E) Clinton on Operation Storm: "I was rooting for the Croatians"
Clinton on Operation Storm: "I was rooting for the Croatians"
Below is some info posted on Justwatch by Mike Baresic. It regards Bill Clinton's comments on Operation Storm in his autobiography and it would appear to be of great significance.
Bill Clinton's autobiography, out in bookstores today, contains several pages about the conflict in Croatia and Bosnia. Interesting excerpts include Clinton's confirmation that the US authorized MPRI to go to Croatia to train the Croatian army and make it a counterbalance to the Serb army. He also states that the US looked the other way to arms shipments that violated the UN arms embargo. Clinton declares that Operation Storm was of great importance to defeating Milosevic and that he was "rooting for the Croatians" to take back the Krajina.
Although he doesn't explicitly state that he was the "godfather of Operation Storm" (to borrow Florence Hartmann's phrase), he comes awfully close.