Kosovo: Facts impede spin For the administration, the facts are obstructing a good story. After U.S. and NATO bombers began the destruction of Yugoslavia, to force its government to accept President Clinton's peace plan for Kosovo, ethnic Albanian refugees began telling tales of mass murders by their Serb enemies. From that moment on, Clinton and his allies insisted the war was not about imposing his will; rather, it was about stopping a ''holocaust.'' About 100,000 Albanians had been killed, they said, with many buried in mass graves. Not only did that give the war effort credibility, it took attention away from the deaths of many innocent Serb civilians at the hands of NATO bombers. Once the war was won, international forensic teams rushed to Kosovo so they could document the atrocities. Quietly, the toll was revised from 100,000 to 10,000, and even that could be an exaggeration. Only 2,108 bodies have been found. U.S. and NATO officials, for example, had reported during the war that the bodies of 1,000 Albanians had been stuffed in a Trepca mine. The total number of bodies found there: zero. Another report was that 350 had been killed by the Serbs near the town of Pec. Five bodies were found. What's more, there has been no analysis of whether the victims were Albanian or Serb - or whether they were civilians or military people. The London Sunday Times says many of the victims died during the fighting or from U.S.-NATO bombs. Neither would qualify as Serb atrocities. Ethnic Albanians routinely beat, kill and maim Serbs in Kosovo. NATO pretends not to notice and this week began handing power over to the Kosovo Liberation Army, which is behind the thuggery. Serbs are fleeing for their lives; at least 63 percent of Kosovo's Serb population has left. Paradoxically, the war accomplished ethnic cleansing - the thing that Clinton said it was supposed to stop. Albanians are trying their best to drive the few remaining Serbs out. U.N. peacekeepers are outnumbered. When they try to step in and save a Serb life, often they pay a terrible price. Friday, the day after a U.S. soldier was killed by a land mine, two American peacekeepers tried to stop a mob of Albanians who were stoning some Serbs. The mob turned on them, and they suffered serious head injuries. This may be what the administration considers to be soldiers suffering and dying for a noble cause. But it more accurately reflects the consequences of foreign policy driven by domestic politics. да ви е честита международната общност.