Bill Clinton: “Well, it wasn't barbaric. What is barbaric is what Mr. Milosevic has done. It's tragic. It's awful. But it's a tragedy…”

“Well, it wasn't barbaric. What is barbaric is what Mr. Milosevic has done. It's tragic. It's awful. But it's a tragedy, and it was an accident. What is barbaric is the intentional ethnic cleansing that he has provoked for a decade now, first in Bosnia where a quarter of a million people lost their lives and 2\1/2\ million people were made refugees, and now here. That is what is barbaric. And I believe that Russia recognizes that, which is why they've shown so much leadership on the diplomatic front. And I would encourage them to stay on that course. If they want the bombing to end, then the Kosovars need to come home. We need to reverse the ethnic cleansing. We need to know they'll be secure. And that's what I would urge everyone to think about here. You know, I'd like to see a few more demonstrations against the helpless--I mean, the treatment against the helpless Kosovars. I don't blame people for being upset about it; I'm upset about it. But it is clearly--if you remember that over 10,000 sorties have been flown here, it is obvious that the NATO--the generals and the pilots have worked very hard to avoid this. I know when I was in Germany, I talked to pilots that literally had risked their own lives to avoid innocent civilian casualties when weapons being fired against them were being fired from heavily populated civilian areas--on roofs and things like that--and they didn't fire back. They risked their own lives to avoid this sort of thing. So this will happen if you drop this much ordinance over this period of time. I think the campaign is necessary. And what we need to do to end it is to meet the conditions necessary for the Kosovars to go home with safety and autonomy.”