Time Magazine, May 15, 2000

NATO said it won a great victory, but the war did very little damage to Serb
forces. By not conceding this, the Pentagon may mislead future presidents
about the limits of U.S. power.


An anti-septic war, fought by pilots flying safely three miles high. It
seems almost too good to be true- and it was. In fact- as some critics
suspected at the time- the air campaign against the Serb military in Kosovo
was largely ineffective. NATO bombs plowed up some firelds, blew ump
hundreds of cars, trucks and decoys, and barely dented Serb artillery and
armor. According to a suppressed Air Force report obtained by Newsweek, the
number of targets verifiably destroyed was a tiny fraction of those claimed.
Out of the 744 "confirmed" strikes by NATO pilots during the war, the Air
Force investigators, who spent weeks combing Kosovo by helicopter and by
foot, found evidence of just 58.

The damage report has been buried by top military officers and Pentagon
officials, who in interviews with Newsweek over the last three weeks were
still glossing over or denying its signifigance.



Bottom Line: You can't trust the government to tell the truth.


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