Bill Clinton: “The only circumstance that I can imagine doing that is if the mission no longer existed. That is, keep in mind, we are…”

“The only circumstance that I can imagine doing that is if the mission no longer existed. That is, keep in mind, we are there not to fight a war. We are there not to stop a war. We are there to implement a peace agreement. We anticipate that there will be violations of this agreement but that the leaders will not abandon it and that the vast bulk of the people will not abandon it. So we have to be prepared for some violations. We even have to be prepared for some casualties, al- though I think our people have trained and planned as hard against problems for this mission as they ever have for any. But that would not cause me to withdraw. I believe that NATO would determine, if all the factions decided they wanted to go fight again, that there was no longer a mission to perform. Defense Authorization Bill”