[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 38 (Tuesday, April 12, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 12, 1994]
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                         AIR STRIKES IN BOSNIA

  (Mr. CUNNINGHAM asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, it is inconceivable to me that this 
country could commit U.S. forces, men and women, on an air strike and 
not know anything about it until after the fact.
  I watched the Secretary of Defense last night being interviewed where 
our Secretary of Defense nor the Commander in Chief, President Clinton, 
knew about the Bosnian air strike until after the fact.
  The excuse was that they signed a pact with the United Nations so 
that those strikes could take place. It is inconceivable, as a former 
military guy, that our country could commit our troops without our 
Government even knowing about it, not just Russia, not just France, but 
the United States.
  Remember who got us into Vietnam, Mr. Speaker. Let us not make the 
same mistake twice.

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