Duncan Faircloth: “I want to make clear, that had the Senate taken a rollcall vote on Senator Hutchinson's amendment to Senator Feingold's…”

“I want to make clear, that had the Senate taken a rollcall vote on Senator Hutchinson's amendment to Senator Feingold's amendment, I would have voted no on the Hutchinson amendment. I want our troops home as soon as possible, and I am strongly supportive of any effort to bring them home as quickly as possible. The President promised that our troops would be home in December 1996. He clearly mislead the Congress and the American people when he made this promise. Only after the election was over did the President make his decision to extend our troop deployment, even though he knew full well that our troops would not be coming home in December, well before the election. The Bosnian mission is going to cost the taxpayers of this country $6.5 billion. The question is what will be changed after our troops have been there this long, and we have spent this amount of money. I contend that little will be changed. When the deployment was made, a principle question was whether the United States had an exit strategy. It now appears that we may have no exit.”