[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 143 (Thursday, September 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H8913]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                         GET OUT OF BOSNIA NOW

  (Mr. BAKER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BAKER of California. Mr. Speaker, America is a great country 
because the Government is run by free people, bound by a great 
document, the Constitution.
  Despite our overwhelming strength, our Nation walked softly and 
carried a big stick. But in Bosnia we changed all the rules. Lines were 
drawn creating a government which forced orthodox Serbians and Catholic 
Croatians to live presumably under Moslem rule. Ethnic rivalries and 
hatreds were inflamed by the thought of 500-year-old villages being 
ruled by long-time enemies.
  Our Government now is bombing our World War II allies, the Serbs, one 
of the belligerents in the civil war started by the drawing of these 
lines.
  What right do we have to use our military might 6,000 miles away from 
home? Has Congress been consulted?
  Since there is no NATO country involved, how can it legally be a NATO 
action? Is this another unauthorized U.N. action? Who will pay the $5 
billion for our involvement in this misguided war?
  America will remain a free and great country only if we continue to 
live under our Constitution. Get out of Bosnia now.

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