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Bill Clinton: I don't comment on those things. I can't---- Expectations of Operation Allied Force Mr. Blitzer. I knew you wouldn't…

On the recordJune 20, 1999
I don't comment on those things. I can't---- Expectations of Operation Allied Force Mr. Blitzer. I knew you wouldn't, but I figured I would ask anyhow. Let's move on to talk about--under the category of ``now the truth can be told.'' When you gave the order to launch the airstrikes, did you ever believe in your wildest imagination it would take 78 days, and all the devastation that it did take, to finally declare a victory?
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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