Harry Reid: “We thought it was very appropriate prior to this weekend--we are going out of session now until Monday--that the…”

“We thought it was very appropriate prior to this weekend--we are going out of session now until Monday--that the President, the Secretary of Defense, and especially those military men and women who have been away from home for weeks--the bombing has taken 11 weeks--that we commend and applaud the work they have done. The way to do that formally is through a resolution. As the leader has said, he agrees generally with the thrust of what we are trying to do. We will be happy to work with the Republican leadership to come up with a resolution that makes sure the fighting men and women of this country are commended, that the Secretary of Defense is commended, the Commander in Chief, and that also we acknowledge we set out to make sure the Serb forces got out of Kosovo--they are on their way out--that the ethnic Albanians are allowed to return--they are on their way back--and, of course, there be a peacekeeping force on the ground, which this body has already approved. So with that, I will yield the floor, recognizing that this is a great day in the history of the United States, and it is a great day in the history of the other 18 nations in that we have been able to force evil to come to an end. We have won the war.”