Kay Bailey Hutchison: “we have been talking for the last 45 minutes about this administration's Bosnia policy. I would just sum it up with…”

“we have been talking for the last 45 minutes about this administration's Bosnia policy. I would just sum it up with ``promises made, promises broken.'' This administration promised: On December 20, 1996, American troops would be gone from Bosnia. The second promise was that the arms embargo would not be lifted by the President, despite repeated attempts by Congress to do so. He refused to lift the arms embargo so that legitimate sources could provide arms for Bosnians to fight for themselves and their country and their freedom, despite the fact they begged us in this Congress to do so. I will never forget the poignant testimony of then-Vice President Ganic, who said, ``Let us die fighting for our freedom. We are dying anyway. Help us die for a cause.'' But at the same time the administration was saying we are not going to allow legitimate sources of arms for the Moslems. Instead, according to news reports, this administration did not object to arms sales from another source which was not legitimate, Iran. What is the result of that? The result is the Iranian mujaheddin is still in Sarajevo. Significant arming and training of the Moslems has yet to begin, and the excuse used is the Iranians are still in Sarajevo, despite the fact that in the Dayton accords they were to have been expelled from Bosnia. And the result is that the December 20 deadline is not going to be met.…”