[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 76 (Tuesday, May 25, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H3510]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    AMERICANS INSIST ON PEACEFUL NEGOTIATIONS, NOT CONTINUED BOMBING

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, NATO's deliberate bombing and knocking out 
of electric systems and water systems throughout Serbia takes the war 
to a new low.
  NATO is assigning collective guilt to the entire population of 
Serbia. NATO is then exacting retribution against that civilian 
population. Violence cannot be redemptive.
  NATO, whoever NATO is, does not represent this Congress, which voted 
against the bombing. The American people are opposed to this bombing. 
People want to know what they can do.
  On Sunday night in Cleveland, 400 people marched in a driving rain 
along the city's largest bridge, a mile and a half procession for 
peace, to protest the bombing, to protest the ethnic cleansing, and to 
make a strong statement that we believe that the only way to resolve 
this is through peaceful negotiations. I say it is time to continue to 
insist that that is the way that we resolve this war.




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