On the recordMarch 11, 1999
Carnage has gone on in Kosova for too long, and by the way, I say Kosova with an ``A'' because 92 percent of the people that live there are ethnic Albanians and pronounce it Kosova. Ethnic and cleansing and genocide has gone on for too long. The butcher of Kosova, Slobodan Milosevic, continues to kill people. We continue to see genocide on the face of Europe. We cannot sit still and continue to allow this to happen. Until the United States stepped in in Bosnia, we saw 200,000 people ethnically cleansed by Milosevic and his people, murdered, and we are going to see it again unless the United States grabs the bull by the horns. I support independence for the people of Kosova because I believe that is the only long-range plan that works, they are entitled to the same things that we hold dear, they are entitled when Yugoslavia broke up the former Yugoslavia, the Croats, and the Slovenians, and the Bosnians, and the Macedonians all had the right to independence and self-determination.
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