BY MAURICE WILLIAMS

U.S. president Bill Clinton is moving at full steam to implement Washington's decision to send 20,000 troops to Bosnia as part of a 60,000-strong NATO occupation force. "This task force is ready to roll," he told U.S. soldiers in Germany December 2. They will be among the first of the NATO units in Bosnia.

Gearing up for war, Clinton told the GIs they would be heavily armed and could respond "immediately and with decisive force" to hostilities.

The White House is deploying such a massive force in a workers state for the first time in decades. The State Department's official goal is to enforce the partition of Bosnia, agreed to by the warring regimes in the former Yugoslav republics in a deal brokered by Washington on a military base in Dayton, Ohio, November 21. The masters of the U.S. empire are trying to boost their military and economic domination of the region, get one up on their European competitors, particularly Paris and Bonn, and take a stab at re-establishing capitalism in the former Yugoslavia.

The first NATO unit composed of 28 soldiers landed in Sarajevo December 4 and included two GIs. Some 3,000 U.S. soldiers are imminently expected to arrive in Kaposvar, Hungary, for a brief stopover on the way to Bosnia by train. Overall, 32,000 U.S. military personnel will be involved in the action, including the 20,000 GIs in Bosnia, 5,000 in Croatia, and 7,000 support troops in Hungary and Italy.

The parliament in Germany voted December 6 to approve sending 4,000 German soldiers to the Balkans - Bonn's largest military mission abroad since World War II. Bonn has already par  
 
 
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