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Joe Cunningham: I will not condemn any one of the Members in here for the way that they vote on this. They do it so because they have…

On the recordMarch 11, 1999
I will not condemn any one of the Members in here for the way that they vote on this. They do it so because they have different knowledge, they have different beliefs. But I do resent the minority leader impugning the motives of many of us. I make my statements on some very deep, rich beliefs and experience from training, of planning innovations in the defense of countries all over this world on military staff. And I hated politicians that sat in soft, cushy chairs and put our men and women in harm's way so easily, they who had never done that themselves. Kosovo is not an independent state, it is part of Greater Serbia. When we go into the full committee, I want to put in here some 1,500 shrines and sanctuaries that the Serbs have in Kosovo, the birthplace of the orthodox Catholic religion. This is their homeland. This is a map of Albania. The Albanians do not want just Kosovo, they want part of Greece, they want Montenegro, and they want Kosovo. This is a map of the massacred Serbs, Jews, gypsies that the KLA has murdered in recent times, not World War II. The KLA is supported by the mujahedin, Hamas, and even bin Laden. Get George Tenet's brief, classified brief. That is about as far as I can go. This is a list of where the Serbs established Kosovo and were ethnically cleansed and murdered and forced to flee across the Danube, their homeland, and Albanians filled the void. Yet, they are defending their own homeland right now and being murdered.
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Joe Cunningham
South Carolina

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Addressing the situation in Kosovo and the implications of U.S. involvement.

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