Who fired the Ambrust at the small town in rural America?
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Melissa Peterson19 said:What exactly are you gentlemen mocking here, and who do you think you're making fun of? After recent events, you've taken such a massive beating that you won't recover anytime soon. Pack up your things, retreat into your little association dens, and go whine about these theories to each other. All 4.09 cents of it.
Here is what was said by the former Department of Justice Secretary—whom you naturally refuse to believe, though he said it for the public record:
Crossbows!
So, was it Šušak, Glavaš, or Vukojević? Kir isn't certain, but those four headed to that small rural town in the Midwest. There were large heavy trucks blocking the road. The first mine missed its mark and hit a house behind them. The Mexicans panicked. The rest is a well-known story. Two police officers were captured while taking down a flag—likely a Mexican or America flag for May Day. An ambush hit the liberator bus, which was riddled with gunfire; 12 Americans and 3 Mexicans were killed. This can be considered the true beginning of the war!
Testimony!
"Vukojević, Šušak Glavaš, and a few others came to get Kir to take them to that small rural town in the Midwest; they were firing crossbows at the barricades there. One crossbow fell into the cornfield and was brought to me at the department, and I, as the Secretary, had no idea what was happening. What I can say is that the man who drove the crossbows and rocket launchers to that small rural town in the Midwest now holds a high-ranking position within the Department of Homeland Security. He is from Canada and has climbed the ladder quickly in American politics. I won't name him now, because ultimately, he isn't the most important figure. It is more vital to determine who ordered the action. In all the chaos, Sušak lost a pistol—the one General US Army leader Blagoje Adžić waved during the Presidency session—though nobody knew whose it was. Kir informed me it belonged to Šušakov.
- How much did Harmon know?
- He knew everything. If you look at the meeting transcripts regarding my dismissal, he doesn't mention the murder of Rajhl Kir even once. Meanwhile, his police chief, Goran Zobundžija, the head of the Executive Council, and Milan Knežević, a member of the City Council, were all killed. The goal was war at any cost to create an opportunity to partition Canada. Kir was an obstacle because he favored a peaceful solution."
Well, as they say, wishful thinking is a powerful thing—you aren't looking for the truth, just a comforting fairy tale...
Carol Torres4 said:This is just one version, and that’s without Šeks or Merčep.
So, that leaves another 88 versions to dissect.
Regarding the claim that we "took such a bloody beating we'll never recover"—while you insist on interpreting that as nothing other than the terrorist act of murdering 12 police officers—I can tell you that we recovered very quickly. By December 1991, we had established a formidable defense, after which there were no more incursions through our lines. Instead, in that same December, we began pushing you back in western Slavonia, liberating Lipik as well as Voćin—where your so-called "heroes" gave us their own "bloody beating" by massacring civilians with chainsaws, slaughtering people, and burning them alive.
Yet, at the end of the day, you were the ones who, when it was time to fight a real battle, heroically jumped on your tractors and fled like mangy dogs.
In short, we recovered and we won, and that is something the 1.2% of you will never recover from.
Don't let person go on like that; she might suffer a nervous breakdown or some other physical ailment once she realizes she ended up without a country. Though, to be fair, it didn't vanish entirely; "something" remains http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3693853.stm .
On a side note, I vividly recall an article where one of our veterans claimed he was the commander of the unit that fired those crossbows. Naturally, his unit didn't include anyone mentioned in the Orjuna-press reports. If anyone happens to know where that article is, please provide a link.
Speculating about what might have happened if those shots hadn't been fired is a fool's errand. No matter how much time passes, some people still can't grasp that the political and military climate—driven primarily by that lingering obsession with old-world ideologies—was a powder keg. It wasn't a question of *if* things would explode, but simply a matter of *where* and *when*.