[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 189 (Wednesday, November 29, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H13736]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       NO GROUND TROOPS IN BOSNIA

  (Mr. FUNDERBURK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FUNDERBURK. Mr. Speaker, our side needs a leader or leaders with 
the courage to say clearly that we should not send ground troops into 
Bosnia. It is not in America's vital national security interests. And 
there is absolutely nothing to be achieved for America, but much to be 
lost. We will lose lives and a year later if we leave--which is 
questionable--full scale ethnic war will resume as during the previous 
600 years. Thus nothing will be accomplished but a year-long experiment 
of the President to gain macho credentials and leadership 
demonstration.
  Bosnia is the latest in Bill Clinton's foreign misadventures. There 
was Somalia and there was Haiti. And what was gained in those places. 
In Haiti under the not-so-democratic Aristide, the so-called peace is 
unraveling.
  And America cannot afford in dollars or lives, what NATO and the 
Europeans have been unwilling to do. It is Europe's turn to look out 
for its backyard.
  With the onset of winter in the mountains of Bosnia and Herzegovina 
and over a million land mines in place, we do not need American lives 
sacrificed before Christmas for some artificial creation called Bosnia. 
In the Congress, let us assert our authority and not fund the latest 
unwise, tragic foreign misadventure of an aspiring leader named Bill 
Clinton. No money to send United States ground troops to Bosnia, 
period.

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