GOP doves once cooed exit strategy

[struggle4progress]

<snip> Back in 1999, after President Bill Clinton had ordered U.S. forces to begin a massive bombing campaign and missile strikes against Yugoslavia, the House of Representatives considered a resolution supporting the mission.

The leading opponent of the resolution was DeLay, who dismissed the notion that opposing the war was in any way an affront to the troops. In a visceral floor statement delivered in March of that year, DeLay declared, "Bombing a sovereign nation for ill-defined reasons with vague objectives undermines the American stature in the world. The international respect and trust for America has diminished every time we casually let the bombs fly. We must stop giving the appearance that our foreign policy is formulated by the Unabomber."

As the war progressed, DeLay condemned "(President Clinton's) war," and grumbled in April 1999, "There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our overextended military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the president started this thing, and there still is no plan today." <snip>

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/index.php?ntid=55587&ntpid=1

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Why doesn't somebody read these into the record again

while Delay is there listening.

[zbdent]

2. The media should also point out all the bitching going on about the

bloodshed which was going to be Haiti - and not a drop of blood was spilled returning a DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT to power over a militaristic dictator . . .

[A-Possum]

3. great n/t

wonderful irony

[Dragon Turtle]

4. Kick (NT)