[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12127]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                           BOMBING FOR PEACE

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Madam Speaker, bombing for peace. This is the new 
strategy from NATO. While engaging in peace negotiations, NATO has 
intensified the bombing. Bombing for peace.
  During peace talks, B-52s dropped cluster bombs along the Kosovo-
Albania borders. NATO says that as a result about 600 Serb troops in 
the field were pulverized by the cluster bombs during peace talks. 
Besides those troops killed, there will be countless Kosovars and Serbs 
injured by thousands of cluster bombs which will remain unexploded 
until discovered by accident, by children playing, by people walking 
home to Kosovo.
  Peace bombs. There is no such thing as bombing for peace. We bomb for 
war; we negotiate for peace. We cannot do both at once and keep 
credibility. Let us hope we can finally get a peace agreement and let 
us demand an end to the bombing.

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