[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6274]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 AIR WAR IN YUGOSLAVIA NOT SUPPORTED BY AMERICAN PEOPLE, JUST LIBERAL 
                                 MEDIA

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, last night the Fox Network reported costs of 
$3 billion for the air war against Yugoslavia, and that was before it 
was reported that General Clark has now asked for several hundred more 
U.S. aircraft.
  Yesterday, in The Washington Post, Columnist Robert Novak reported 
that we had bought Russia's neutrality with another $4.6 billion IMF 
loan. We will spend many billions in addition more on ground troops and 
reconstruction costs after Milosevic comes down. All of this against a 
tiny country that was no threat whatsoever to us, and where we made 
things many times worse by our bombings.
  Last week the largest talk radio program in Knoxville asked if we 
should send ground troops into Kosovo. Only one caller was in favor. 
Everyone else was strongly opposed.
  Our very liberal national media is doing everything it possibly can 
to escalate this war, so the true story will probably never be 
adequately reported, and that is that this war is a great 
miscalculation being carried out at almost obscene expense to the 
American people.

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