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Joe Lieberman: “The victories, if one can call them that, that the tragic, brutal, barbaric victories that Milosevic's forces have had…”

On the recordApril 21, 1999
The victories, if one can call them that, that the tragic, brutal, barbaric victories that Milosevic's forces have had over the Kosovars are hollow. They are barbaric because this was an armed force fighting against unarmed, undefended people. It is a question that will hang in the air--and some later time we will come back to it--what might have been different if, in fact, the KLA had been better armed at the outset of this a month or two or three ago, because I think that might have deterred, certainly delayed the massive exodus and slaughter that has been carried out against this undefended indigenous population.
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Joe Lieberman
Independent · Connecticut

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Discussing the humanitarian crisis in Kosovo during Senate floor debate.

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