We are fighting a war to prevent a genocide at worst or at the least, an ethnic cleansing causing the displacement of 1.5 million refugees. We will tolerate neither this "Hitler" nor the injustice of his dictatorship*.

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After reading these articles, I am convinced we are protecting the Caspian Sea oil fields, the largest oil fields outside of the Middle East. If Greece were drawn into the conflict, which it is dangerously close to (Greeks stopped troop transport on the main road to Macedonia (see our Global Reaction page), the US could lose it's safe corridor of oil export.

My impression is, we went in to stop a war from escalating; hopefully we will succeed, now that the war has escalated and is spreading.

• AZERBAIJAN SUGGESTS REGIONAL ALIGNMENT OF NATO, TURKEY AND ISRAEL
• 01/15/99 MOSCOW CLARIFIES INTENTION TO PLACE MISSILES IN ARMENIA."

• 01/26/99 AZERBAIJAN SEEKS WESTERN PROTECTION, OFFERS BASES.

• 01/28/99 ENRON SUBMITS FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR TRANS-CASPIAN GAS PIPELINE.

• 01/29/99 RUSSIA AND CHINA LOOK TO BOOST TRADE LEVELS.

• 02/01/99 ARMED GROUPS SEIZE OIL WELLS IN CHECHNYA.

• AZERBAIJAN SEEN AS AMERICAN ACCOMPLICE AGAINST RUSSIA
• 02/05/99 BEREZOVSKY NEWSPAPER ATTACKS U.S.-AZERBAIJANI CONNECTION.

• 02/17/99 BULGARIAN PRESIDENT HOLDS TALKS IN MOSCOW.

• 02/23/99 TURKMENISTAN-TURKEY PIPELINE CONTRACT SIGNED.

• 02/25/99 UKRAINE ADDING TRANSIT CAPACITY FOR RUSSIAN GAS.

• 02/26/99 RUSSIAN AND CHINA INK GOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENTS.

• 03/15/99 COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT ON TURKMEN GAS SIGNED.
• 03/19/99 TRIPARTITE FORCE PLANNED FOR PIPELINE PROTECTION.

• 03/19/99 GAZPROM THROWS GAUNTLET TO U.S.-BACKED TRANS-CASPIAN PIPELINE.

• 03/25/99 NATO BOMBING MAY FACILITATE IMF LOAN (TO RUSSIA)

• 03/30/99 SIX TURKIC COUNTRIES CLOSE RANKS ON INTELLIGENCE FRONT.

• 04/09/99 RUSSIAN-U.S. TENSIONS OVER IRAQ BACK IN SPOTLIGHT.

• 04/12/99 ...RUSSIAN DIPLOMACY FAILS TO DETER NATO.

• 04/14/99 UKRAINIAN-GEORGIAN-AZERBAIJANI MILITARY EXERCISE UNDERWAY.

• 04/14/99 PROGRESS ON TRANS-CASPIAN GAS PIPELINE AND TURKMEN-TURKISH RELATIONS.

• 04/19/99 WEST-BOUND CASPIAN OIL PIPELINE INAUGURATED.

• 04/20/99 HISTORIC MILITARY EXERCISE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED.

• 04/27/99 NATO CONTINUES TO PROBE KREMLIN OVER KOSOVO.

• 04/29/99 U.S. OIL COMPANIES SIGN MULTIBILLION CONTRACTS WITH AZERBAIJAN.

• 05/06/99 IRAN LOOKS WITH JAUNDICED EYE AT AZERBAIJAN'S LATEST OIL CONTRACTS.

*Milosevic was freely elected in an internationally audited election.