Dana Rohrabacher: “It is time to lift the immoral embargo that has led to the bloodshed and genocide of Croatians and Bosnian Moslems.…”

“It is time to lift the immoral embargo that has led to the bloodshed and genocide of Croatians and Bosnian Moslems. Whose idea was this embargo in the first place? Does anyone really remember that? I remember whose idea it was. It was the Serbians' idea in the first place. We accepted an idea that was proposed by the Government of Yugoslavia when it was dominated by the Serbians, and now that they got their embargo, once they had it, once we put their idea into place, the tanks begin to roll, and the artillery begin to fire. The aggressor, by this embargo, was left with a total advantage in artillery and tanks. That advantage is what caused this situation to degenerate into genocide and to degenerate into the worst bloodletting and killing of noncombatants that we have seen in decades. Madam Chairman, it time to lift the immoral embargo. It is time for the United States to provide some leadership. They say that we will be doing this alone. Well, no, we will not be alone. We will be on the side of women and children and not combatants who now cannot defend themselves because we have put the victim and the aggressor in the same category. That is immoral. It is an immoral embargo; it is time to lift the immoral embargo. Madam Chairman, the United States has always stood, always stood, for principle.…”