[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 200 (Friday, December 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H14935]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      WE WILL BE PAYING FOR BOSNIA

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, yesterday on the CBS radio news, a man from 
Tuzla was asked what it meant to him that the Americans were coming.
  He shouted back in a happy, accented voice that I won't try to 
imitate: ``Money--Only Money.''
  A few days earlier, I had seen the deputy major of Tuzla say on one 
of our national networks that he expected the Americans to rebuild 
their infrastructure.
  At about that same time, the Bosnian leadership said they would need 
$25 billion in loans from the World Bank to rebuild their country.
  The biggest contributor to the World Bank: the United States of 
course.
  This is all in addition to the $600 million we promised in aid, up 
front at Dayton, and the billions we will spend on our own troops.
  As long as we are there, we can keep the peace, and I think and hope 
with very few casualties.
  But we will be borrowing billions to do it, and the American people, 
especially our children and grandchildren, will be paying for this for 
a very long time to come.

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