[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 56 (Thursday, April 22, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H2277]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           WILL LEADERS ADMIT A FAILING POLICY IN YUGOSLAVIA?

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Madam Speaker, Michael Kelly, the editor of the National 
Journal, said, ``It is not too much to ask that the planners (of the 
war) do not lie, to themselves and to the public, about how their plans 
are faring. And what is going on with the plan in Yugoslavia is that it 
is failing, catastrophically.''
  He added that: ``We started a war to protect a people, and we know 
that, far from being protected, the people are being slaughtered and 
driven destitute from their homes to starve in the hills.''
  Columnist Doug Bandow, in yesterday's Washington Times, wrote: ``. . 
. NATO's blundering assault on Yugoslavia has created every condition 
it was supposed to prevent.''
  Even Senator John McCain said yesterday, ``The NATO bombing was 
intended to bring Milosevic to the bargaining table. Most evidence 
indicates this has had the opposite effect. Apparently, he has greater 
support than he had before.''
  We have made things many times worse by our bombings. I doubt, 
though, that our leaders are big enough to admit that they made a 
horrible mistake and that we should get out of this war as soon as we 
possibly can.

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