Joe Cunningham: “Mr. Chairman, when a member of my own party tried to stop COLAs for our military, the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs.…”

“Mr. Chairman, when a member of my own party tried to stop COLAs for our military, the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Fowler) was the first one to jump and say, ``Duke, I'll support you. Let's get a coalition together, and let's stop it.'' She cares deeply about our military and our troops. I have an article right here that they started fighting last night again in Kosovo. They are burning houses, they are burning bridges. I rise in support of the gentlewoman's resolution. Do my colleagues know who rejected it? Not the Serbs. Holbrooke, Mr. Holbrooke, had to cancel the peace talks last night. He canceled them until the 23rd because the Albanians rejected it. They will stop nothing short of having a separate Kosovo. They do not want just Kosovo. They want Montenegro, and they want parts of Greece. I said on the floor before, ``Look at Bin Laden, look at the terrorist leaders speaking openly and how they then filtrated around Itzebegovic in Bosnia, 12,000 mujahedin in Hamas. That is a threat to Europe, it is a threat to Greece, and it is a threat to this country. Bin Laden, active in Albania with the KLA; they have genocided Montenegrins, Serbs, gypsies and Jews recently, and they continue to do that. They have been fighting for 500 years. As my colleagues know, the gentleman talked about some of us fight for defense dollars. Absolutely right. Look at the emergency state that our national security is in right now.”