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Paul Coverdell: “I commend the Senator from Oklahoma for bringing up the issue of Bosnia creep. I am not going to talk about it, but I am…”

On the recordJune 14, 1996
I commend the Senator from Oklahoma for bringing up the issue of Bosnia creep. I am not going to talk about it, but I am sure we are going to hear a lot about that in the near term. Not only is the time in which the troops are there being expanded, but the mission is being expanded as well. If you remember, during all the testimony when that decision was being made, it was a very narrow mission. Now we are talking about chasing down war criminals, expanding the mission significantly, as well as the time. I have to tell you that I never felt it possible that you could have a 12-month commitment, moving a division like that into an area. It sounded like you would spend the first 6 months getting there and the second 6 months leaving. So I am not surprised by this dilemma that we found ourselves in.
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Paul Coverdell
Georgia
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the expansion of U.S. military commitments in Bosnia.

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