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Saxby Chambliss: I have given them my full support in Bosnia, over an operation which I did not particularly agree with, but I supported…

On the recordSeptember 12, 1996
I have given them my full support in Bosnia, over an operation which I did not particularly agree with, but I supported the men and women once they were there. We are on the brink right now of potentially another Operation Desert Storm, but yet nobody in this House has any idea what is going on. I just left a national security meeting 30 minutes ago, in which the gentleman from Pennsylvania made the comment, he said does anybody on either side of the aisle have any information about exactly what is going on in Iraq right now. Nobody, nobody has any idea, and yet we are asked to stand up here and take action to fund operations we know nothing about, to support operations we know nothing about. I think it is unfair. It is un-American. This body deserves to know. I implore the President to inform us, to let us know what is going on.
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Saxby Chambliss
Republican · Georgia

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Addressing the lack of information regarding military operations in Iraq during a national security discussion.

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