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Robert Dornan: Let me adjust my gig line here for this prestigious well of the world's greatest legislature, straighten my First…

On the recordMarch 29, 1996
Let me adjust my gig line here for this prestigious well of the world's greatest legislature, straighten my First Armored Division pin, still thinking about bringing the men and women home from Bosnia, where European men and women should be doing the miserable ground duty while we do everything else, like air power, sea power, all the airlift, 99 percent of it, 99 percent of the ships at sea, most of the hospital supplies, the food, the fuel, most of the munitions, and of course 100 percent of the intelligence from our satellite architecture down to unmanned aerial vehicles like the fantastic predator program. Why do American men and women have to be on the ground missing Easter with their families as they missed Christmas? So I guess we can free up European young people to work on the assembly line at places like Ferrari and Fiat, Jaguar, Rover, Rolls Royce, and the big-five in Germany, Mercedes, Audi, BMW, Volkswagen, and who am I forgetting? Porsche. We do not want to take people from those assembly lines, shipping products over here. Let us just bankrupt the American people and pour our money into Haiti. The money we sent to Rwanda, they are back killing one another. Somalia, the fighting goes on without the BBC or the CNN cameras. And in Bosnia, 19 young people have died, two of them Americans, one from an accident, one a hero, Sergeant Donald Dugan of--his initials are D-A-D, dad. He left four sons behind. Donald A. Dugan.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Discussing U.S. military involvement in Bosnia and the impact on American families.

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