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On the recordJune 10, 1999
NATO is the alter ego of the United States. Whatever NATO does, it means the United States does, and what have we done? Milosevic is still in power, close to 200 schools in Serbia have been destroyed, a half-dozen bridges across the Danube, power plants. We have destroyed a country. We have wasted our precious military resources. The American people have been asked to pay not only for the war, but the President will come back and ask us to rebuild Serbia. It is wrong. It is fiscally wrong and it is morally wrong. The President needs to be stopped in this unwanted use of taxpayers' dollars. That is the purpose of the Souder amendment, to bring some sanity to what is going on in the world. This war never should have been started, and the American taxpayers should not be called upon to complete it.
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Donald Manzullo
Illinois

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Addressing the implications of NATO actions and U.S. involvement in the conflict in Serbia.

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