Don Nickles: “I wish to compliment Senator Stevens for the statement he just made. I think he is exactly right. I want to follow those…”

“I wish to compliment Senator Stevens for the statement he just made. I think he is exactly right. I want to follow those comments and read from the paper what the purpose of this proposed bombing strike is. This is the front page of the New York Times quoting Secretary Albright. She says: Mr. Milosevic has a stark choice. That choice was for him to agree to the settlement signed in Paris last week by the ethnic Albanians who make up most of Kosovo's population or face NATO air strikes. In other words, Mr. Milosevic has to agree to the peace settlement, and he never has agreed to it, but if he doesn't agree to it, he is going to be bombed. Bombing is an act of war. So our Secretary of State and our President on Friday have said they support this agreement. The Serbs agree to this settlement that NATO has negotiated and that the Kosovars have now signed, or else they are going to be bombed. I made the comment Sunday, I said that is a crummy way to start a war. I look at that as us starting the war.”