Angie Craig: “Mr. President, today you are not telling the American people the truth. For the last several months, you have been…”

“Mr. President, today you are not telling the American people the truth. For the last several months, you have been caught in a very difficult and very deceptive game of doublespeak. Your representative, Richard Holbrooke, who immediate repudiated the Dayton peace accord was quoted on May 3 in a Reuters article saying: I will state flatly for the record that this policy was correct-- He is referring to allowing the Iranians to move arms into the former Yugoslavia. and that if it hadn't taken place, the Bosnian Muslims would not have survived and we would not have gotten to Dayton. That is an absolute opposite from what our President has been telling us. Mr. President, that is double speak. The next quote from Richard Holbrooke: We knew that the Iranians would try to use the aid to buy political influence. It was a calculated policy based on the feeling that you had to choose between a lot of bad choices, and the choice that was chosen kept the Sarajevo government alive. But it left a problem--were the Iranians excessively influential on the ground? Mr. President, President Clinton once again was caught in double speak.”