John Kerry: “I join with the Senator from Arizona, the Senator from Connecticut, Senator Dodd, Senator Biden and others in support of…”

“I join with the Senator from Arizona, the Senator from Connecticut, Senator Dodd, Senator Biden and others in support of this resolution. I understand the sensitivities of a great many of our colleagues and the administration to where we find ourselves. But I think that a fair analysis of what the Senate has before it and what the country has before it really mandates that the Senate be prepared to back up its own steps, the steps that we took when we supported the bombing itself. I heard a number of my colleagues in the course of the debate over this afternoon, most recently the Senator from New Mexico, say, 'Well, we need to recognize that the President made a decision and the President, having made a decision, we now need to know from the President what the strategy is; we need to know from the President what the exit strategy is; we need to know from the President what is called for.' Frankly, I say to my colleagues, there is not a small measure of contradiction in those statements today. There may even be some measure, I think, of confusion about the road that we have traveled. The fact is that the President made it clear to us at the outset what our goal was. The goal has always been the capacity of the Kosovars to live in peace within Kosovo.”