Tuesday, August 30, 2005

The Public Hand Wringing of the "Cowards" of the American Left

The public “hand wringing” of the Left gives aid and comfort to the enemies of the US. That’s as plain and simple as I know how to say it.

The American left is in full panic! So, they run out all their wimps and limp wristed spokesmen, and spokeswomen, and turn their cameras on them while the pens of their scribes smoke across the pages of their notepads being certain to record every nuance, every syllable, of every word uttered in anguish over the possibility that the United States, their very own country, may actually win a military conflict!

If you think this public spectacle in Texas, and around the country, and on the pages of left wing news papers, and TV news channels is rooted in deep concern for the welfare of US troops, you are sadly mistaken. All this Left Wing garbage is aimed at damaging the President, and the Bush Administration, and elevating the Democratic Party in the US. They don’t give a d**n about the welfare of the US Military, or the security of this country. Their single goal is to regain power on the national stage. If that requires giving “aid and comfort to the enemies” of the United States they have proven they are more than willing to do so.

They are disgusting. Their craven, cowardly, actions and will only bring more death to US service men and women and embolden our enemies it step up their efforts to damage the progress of Democracy in the Middle East.

The babbling idiots of the Left don’t have a clue that the very terrorists they are aiding with their “protests” and demands that “the President bring the troops home” would slit their throats, at the first opportunity, and laugh in their faces as their life slips away.

It’s time to stop molly coddling that bunch of anti-American cry babies and start calling them by the name they have earned by their antics…. cowards!

And, another thing: Why can’t we question their patriotism, huh? Only an idiot will buy their claim to support the troops without supporting the war! That is an impossibility. If one doesn’t support the mission of the troops then one does not support the troops. It’s just that simple!

I, along with a few million other Americans, are getting very tired of spending our treasure and spilling the blood of our country’s youth to secure the safety of that bunch of quivering, quaking, trembling, back stabbers from the American Left!

Am I angry? You’re durned right I’m angry! This nation went through this crap in the 60’s and we have entire generations of Americans, who served their country honorably, who have been tarnished forever. An entire generation of Americans who have never gotten over the damage done them by the same political party and the same left wing branch of that party who ceded victory to the communists in Southeast Asia. Due to their efforts the 58,000 Americans died in Viet Nam for NOTHING! And, if they have their way, the dead Americans in the Middle East will be added to the list of those having died in vain! How utterly, and completely, unforgivable!

The yellow journalism we see on out TV screens every evening, and read in our newspapers every morning, is the stuff of sick, poisonous, minds that care for nothing… save their own power. They will gladly climb over the bodies of America’s dead servicemen to again claim the White House and the Congress and further degrade this country and turn us into vassals for that glittering jewel of socialism, the United Nations!

Good Lord! How did we get here? How have we allowed this cancer of socialist malignancy to eat away the soul of the greatest nation on earth?

It’s time to fight back! Americans, who still love their country and still revere the true American dream of freedom, will rise up, in righteous anger, and shout down the voices calling for the defeat of America and America’s efforts to bring freedom to a people who have suffered under the yolk of dictators for centuries.

If those people ever regain power in the United States, she will cease to exist. We cannot turn over the security of this country to a political party which folds as soon as the going gets tough. We cannot give power to a political party that will not defend freedom because the cost is too high.

May God Bless America… and SOON!

“Longstreet”

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

oh really?
Read the following comments made by republicans including Bush! I am your worst nightmare, educated, informed, and liberal! And trying desperately to save this great nation.

REPUBLICANS CRITICIZED CLINTON DURING
KOSOVO CONFLICT
From March 24, 1999 to June 10, 1999, the United States and NATO engaged in a military
campaign to protect ethnic Albanians in Kosovo from Serbian aggression. While American troops
engaged in battle, Republican presidential candidates and leaders in the House and Senate criticized the
Clinton administration and the war in Kosovo, including the proposed supplemental funding for the
conflict.
REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES:
Then-GOP Presidential candidate Governor George W. Bush: According to the Houston Chronicle:
“Bush, in Austin, criticized President Clinton’s administration for not doing enough to enunciate a goal
for the Kosovo military action and indicated the bombing campaign might not be a tough enough
response. ‘Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit
strategy is,’ Bush said.” [Houston Chronicle, 4/9/99]
Then-GOP Presidential candidate Dan Quayle: “What has happened is we have taken a political crisis
and a humanitarian crisis and escalated it into a full military crisis. The handling of the situation in the
Balkans reflects the inattention of the Clinton Administration to foreign policy. … You have the same
situation [as Vietnam]. Ambiguity, no stated, clear cut mission and then you are going to have to be there
quite some time.” [Omaha World Herald, 3/28/99]
Then-GOP Presidential candidate Lamar Alexander: “Once we've started bombing we should bomb
aggressively and consistently and for a long time to try and bring Milosevic to the table. But the president
needs to tell us the rest of the story. Which is that if we put peace-keeping American forces in Kosovo
they are going to be there for a long time, maybe as long as they have been in Korea, 25 to 50 years; and
if they are harmed as they were in Somalia, then we are going to put other forces in there to make sure
that they are safe.” [Fox News, “Hannity & Colmes,” 3/26/99]
Then-GOP Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan: “And what are we doing bombing and attacking this
tiny country that has never attacked the United States to rip away from them a province that does not
belong to us? I believe it is an unjust war. I think we have failed in our strategic objectives, and it is now
becoming basically no longer a war for Kosovo but a war to save NATO’s credibility and NATO’s face.
And that does not justify sending in an army of 100,000 American ground troops into the Balkans.” [NBC,
“Meet the Press,” 4/25/99]
Then-GOP Presidential candidate Gary Bauer: “The President has not demonstrated he’s got a way to
solve a crisis or conflict that literally has been raging since 1350. … They treated each other with an
incredible amount of inhumanity. That’s a terrible thing. It offends our conscience. But how in the
world are American boys flying over Kosovo dropping bombs going to somehow stop something that’s
been going on for 600 years?” [Des Moines Register, 4/17/99]
REPUBLICAN LEADERS IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE:
GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL): “Many may question the path that has taken us to this
point. I have my own questions about the long term strategy of this campaign.” [Dallas Morning News,
3/25/99]
Then-House Majority Whip Tom Delay (R-TX): “Mr. Speaker, this is a very difficult speech for me to
give, because I normally, and I still do, support our military and the fine work that they are doing. But I
cannot support a failed foreign policy. … But before we get deeper embroiled into this Balkan quagmire,
I think that an assessment has to be made of the Kosovo policy so far. President Clinton has never
explained to the American people why he was involving the U.S. military in a civil war in a sovereign
nation, other than to say it is for humanitarian reasons, a new military/foreign policy precedent. … Was it
worth it to stay in Vietnam to save face? What good has been accomplished so far? Absolutely nothing.”
[Congressional Record, “Removal of United States Armed Forces from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,” 4/28/99]
Then-House Majority Whip Tom Delay (R-TX): The deployment of U.S. military forces in Kosovo is
“just another bad idea in a foreign policy without a focus.” [Editorial, Saint Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota),
3/17/99]
Then-House Majority Whip Tom Delay (R-TX): “America needs to quickly change directions and
leave behind this chilling comedy of errors that has defined our foreign policy.” [Copley News Service,
3/22/99]
Then-House Majority Whip Tom Delay (R-TX): “First of all, it's using NATO for the first time to
attack a sovereign nation. … It’s also one more adventure in a whole line of adventures of failed foreign
policy.” [“Fox News Sunday,” 3/14/99]
Then-House Majority Whip Tom Delay (R-TX): “I had the utmost confidence in President Bush. He
had laid the groundwork, and our national interest in the Middle East was clear. In the gulf we had a
country that was invaded [Kuwait], and an oil interest to defend. … [In the Balkans] we have a president I
don’t trust, who has proven my reason for not trusting him: had no plan. We have a civil war that was
falsely described as a huge humanitarian problem, when in comparison to other places, it was nothing.”
[Washington Post, 5/4/99]
Then-Senate Assistant Majority Leader Don Nickles (R-OK): “I think he’s [Clinton] gotten us into a
mess. I don’t think you can bomb a country into signing a peace agreement.” [Washington Post, 4/13/99]
Then-Senate Assistant Majority Leader Don Nickles (R-OK): “The Administration, and NATO as a
whole, greatly miscalculated the response Slobodan Milosevic would have to a bombing campaign. As I
predicted, the Administration has escalated what was guerilla warfare into a much more serious conflict.
The bombings have unleashed an evil reign and resulted in a humanitarian disaster.” [Senator Don Nickles,
Press Release, 4/21/99]
Then-Senate Assistant Majority Leader Don Nickles (R-OK): “I want NATO to be credible, but for
crying out loud, when you are so arrogant to say here is our wisdom, here is this accord, we determined
this is in your best interest and you must sign it or else we are going to bomb you--I stated in my speech
on the bombing resolution that I don't think you can bomb a country into submission or into signing an
agreement.” [Congressional Record, Senator Don Nickles, 5/3/99]
CRITICISMS FROM OTHER REPUBLICANS:
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK): “(P)resident [Clinton] has decimated our ability to defend ourselves.”
[USA Today, 4/5/99]
Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH): “I don’t believe that a ground war in Kosovo using American troops is
going to be very successful.” [NBC, “Meet the Press,” 4/18/99]
Representative Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-CA): “This is the most inept foreign policy in the
history of the United States.” [Washington Times, 4/29/99]
Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN): “This is President Clinton’s war, and when he falls flat on his face,
that’s his problem.” [New York Times, 5/4/99]
REPUBLICANS CRITICIZED CLINTON DURING
KOSOVO CONFLICT
March 24, 1999 -- NATO began a strategic bombing campaign. [Associated Press, 3/24/99]
→ March 25, 1999 -- The Dallas Morning News quoted GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) as
saying, “Many question the path that has taken us to this point. I have my own questions about the
long term strategy of this campaign.” [Dallas Morning News, 3/25/99]
→ March 27, 1999 -- Then-GOP Presidential candidate Dan Quayle criticized the Clinton
administration’s Kosovo policy and said, “What has happened is we have taken a political crisis and a
humanitarian crisis and escalated it into a full military crisis. The handling of the situation in the
Balkans reflects the inattention of the Clinton Administration to foreign policy. … You have the same
situation [as Vietnam]. Ambiguity, no stated, clear cut mission and then you are going to have to be
there quite some time.” [Omaha World Herald, 3/28/99]
March 31, 1999 -- Three U.S. soldiers were captured while patrolling the Serbia-Macedonia border.
[Associated Press, 3/31/99]
→ April 4, 1999 -- Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) said, “We should not be in Kosovo, as we should not
have been in Bosnia. Our concern is we should be able to defend America in the event something
happens where our strategic interests are at stake, such as in Iraq or in North Korea. And this is just
depleting and diluting our resources.” [New York Times, 4/8/99]
→ April 4, 1999 -- While appearing on “Meet the Press,” Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) said the
“President has decimated our ability to defend ourselves.” [USA Today, 4/5/99]
→ April 5, 1999 -- Then-GOP Presidential candidate Sen. Bob Smith (R-NH) questioned the need to
protect Kosovo. “Hundreds of thousands have died in Rwanda,” Smith said. “We’re not firing
missiles there. This is a mistake.” [USA Today, 4/5/99]
→ April 5, 1999 -- USA Today quoted Senator Richard Shelby (R AL), as saying, “Obviously, we are
not winning the war.” [USA Today, 4/5/99]
→ April 6, 1999 -- At an appearance in his hometown of Yorkville, IL, GOP House Speaker Dennis
Hastert (R-IL) said, “The endgame should be, I think, to be sure we can get those refugees back into
Kosovo and stabilized. I have my doubts about whether we are going to be able to rationally deal
politically with Milosevic or not. I don’t know if that’s possible to do. But right now, I don’t think
there’s much support for ground troops. I mean, I don’t see it here, and I didn’t see it in Europe. So
we’re going to have to try to find the best way to solve the problem without inserting ground troops.”
[National Public Radio, 4/7/99]
→ April 8, 1999 -- The New York Times quoted then-Senator John Ashcroft (R-MO) as saying, “A
lackluster air campaign has given the Serb dictator Milosevic time to achieve most of his strategic
goals in Kosovo.” [New York Times, 4/8/99]
→ April 8, 1999 -- The New York Times quoted Senator Chuck Hagel (R-N) as saying, “We've got a
butcher loose in the backyard of NATO. If NATO can't deal with this, are we living a charade that
there's peace and stability in Europe?” [New York Times, 4/8/99]
→ April 9, 1999 -- The Washington Post quoted Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) as saying, “Now that you see
this refugee crisis, we really have to find a strategy to win in some way, whatever that means. We're
all having trouble figuring out what a win is.” [Washington Post, 4/9/99]
→ April 13, 1999 -- In a speech, Representative Tom Campbell(R-CA) denounced the military campaign
in Kosovo and said, “We are presently at war and it is an unconstitutional war.” (R-CA) [New York
Times, 4/14/99]
→ April 13, 1999 -- Senate Assistant Majority Leader Don Nickles (R-OK) criticized Clinton and said,
“I think he’s gotten us into a mess. I don’t think you can bomb a country into signing a peace
agreement.”- [Washington Post, 4/13/99]
→ April 15, 1999 – In an interview on “Inside Politics,” then-GOP Presidential candidate Rep. John
Kasich (R-OH) discussed the military situation in the Balkans and said, “I don’t understand what [the
Administration’s] goals are. ... I am opposed to ground troops. I am for keeping the pressure on
Milosevich but frankly I think we need to look for mediation. I don’t think we ought to look at
opportunities to raise the level of violence there. I think we ought to look for opportunities to be able
to mediate a solution.” [“Inside Politics,” CNN, 4/15/99]
→ April 17, 1999 -- GOP Presidential candidate Gary Bauer stated his opposition to the military
campaign in Kosovo. “The President has not demonstrated he’s got a way to solve a crisis or conflict
that literally has been raging since 1350,” Bauer said. “They treated each other with an incredible
amount of inhumanity. That’s a terrible thing. It offends our conscience. But how in the world are
American boys flying over Kosovo dropping bombs going to somehow stop something that’s been
going on for 600 years?” [Des Moines Register, 4/17/99]
→ April 18, 1999 -- In an appearance on “Meet the Press,” Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) said, “I don’t
believe that a ground war in Kosovo using American troops is going to be very successful.” [NBC,
“Meet the Press,” 4/18/99]
→ April 19, 1999 -- Senator Tim Hutchinson (R-AR) questioned funding the war in Kosovo. “We have
increased deployments by 300% under this President while cutting funding for the armed services by a
third. So I am probably going to vote for it,” Hutchinson said. “But at the rate that we’re spending,
$6 billion will not get us through this fiscal year to pay for this war.” [“Crossfire,” CNN, 4/19/99]
→ April 19, 1999 -- Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) said, “We have literally planted the flag in the Balkan
swamp, I do think its in our national interest, after talking with NATO Ambassadors, after taking a
good hard look. It’s the future of NATO, it’s the credibility of NATO. ... I hope it works, I have my
doubts.” [CNN, “Inside Politics,” 4/19/99]
→ April 20, 1999 -- Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) denounced the war in Kosovo and argued, “The
Administration has told us the U.S. has agreed to pay for 25 percent of the cost for rebuilding what we
are now destroying in terms of a mini-Marshall Plan. I object to that. I do not think it’s appropriate
for us to come in an rebuild that part of Europe when the European Union is healthy economically and
certainly can do that job.” [Washington Times, 4/20/99]
→ April 21, 1999 -- Sen. Don Nickles (R-OK) criticized the Clinton administration’s cooperation with
NATO in Kosovo and said, “The Administration, and NATO as a whole, greatly miscalculated the
response Slobodan Milosevic would have to a bombing campaign. As I predicted, the Administration
has escalated what was guerilla warfare into a much more serious conflict. The bombings have
unleashed an evil reign and resulted in a humanitarian disaster.” [Senator Don Nickles, Press Release,
4/21/99]
→ April 24, 1999 -- In an appearance on “Evans, Novak, Hunt and Shields,” Senator Richard Shelby (R
AL) said, “I don't believe we're winning it today. I don't believe that the Serbs are winning it either,
but our air war has intensified some, especially this week, and if we'll keep it up for another two or
three more weeks and not let the politicians decide what targets to hit or veto the ones that the Army
wants go at, it could make a difference. I'm dubious, I'm not sure, I don't know of any air war that has
decided a conflict by itself.” [“Evans, Novak, Hunt and Shields,” CNN, 4/24/99]
→ April 25, 1999 -- Then-GOP Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan said, “And what are we doing
bombing and attacking this tiny country that has never attacked the United States to rip away
from them a province that does not belong to us? I believe it is an unjust war. I think we have
failed in our strategic objectives, and it is now becoming basically no longer a war for Kosovo but a
war to save NATO’s credibility and NATO’s face. And that does not justify sending in an army of
100,000 American ground troops into the Balkans.” [NBC, “Meet the Press,” 4/25/99, emphasis added]
→ April 28, 1999 -- House Republicans undermined U.S. foreign policy by rejecting a resolution
(S.Con.Res.21) authorizing the ongoing NATO air campaign in Yugoslavia. A Washington Post
editorial said of the vote, “The Republican leadership has shown an amazing lack of leadership.
Cowardice triumphed over principle. ... Those who will more likely suffer from this abdication are the
NATO alliance, its military campaign, the Kosovars and, in the long run, the Republican Party itself.”
House Republicans defeated the resolution 213 to 213. [House CQ Vote #103, 4/28/99; Editorial, Washington
Post, 4/30/99]
→ April 28, 1999 – Then-GOP Presidential candidate Rep. John Kasich (R-OH) was skeptical of
NATO’s military campaign in Kosovo and said, “The fact is the civil war in Kosovo has been raging
since 1389. The fact is, our intervening in the middle of an ethnic civil war that has been going on for
six centuries is not likely to be successful.” [New York Times, 4/29/99]
→ April 28, 1999 -- Speaking on the House floor, then-House Majority Whip Tom Delay (R-TX)
criticized Clinton’s decision to bomb in Kosovo and said, “Mr. Speaker, this is a very difficult speech
for me to give, because I normally, and I still do, support our military and the fine work that
they are doing. But I cannot support a failed foreign policy. … But before we get deeper
embroiled into this Balkan quagmire, I think that an assessment has to be made of the Kosovo policy
so far. President Clinton has never explained to the American people why he was involving the U.S.
military in a civil war in a sovereign nation, other than to say it is for humanitarian reasons, a new
military/foreign policy precedent. … Was it worth it to stay in Vietnam to save face? What good has
been accomplished so far? Absolutely nothing.” [Congressional Record, “Removal of United States Armed
Forces from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,” 4/28/99, emphasis added]
→ April 28, 1999 -- Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-CA) criticized the Clinton administration and
said, “This is the most inept foreign policy in the history of the United States.” [Washington Times,
4/29/99]
→ April 30, 1999 -- Commenting on the rejection of a bill that would have authorized force in the
Balkans, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-TX) said, “The President is not supported by the
House, and the military is supported by the House.” [USA Today, 4/30/99]
→ April 30, 1999 -- The Washington Times quoted Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN) as saying, “How can we
vote next week to fund a mission that we voted against this week?” [Washington Times, 4/30/99]
→ May 2, 1999 -- Then-House Majority Whip Tom Delay (R-TX) criticized Clinton’s policies in
Kosovo and said, “The president said that if we did nothing, there would be a instability in the region.
There would be a flood of refugees, Kosovars would die, and the credibility of NATO would be
undermined. Well, Clinton's bombing campaign has caused all of these problems to explode.”
[CNN, “Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer, 5/2/99, emphasis added]
→ May 2, 1999 -- Then-GOP Presidential candidate Bob Smith (NH) questioned the fate of the Kosovo
military conflict and said, “I’m opposed to saying, ‘Let’s go in and win it,’ because I don’t know what
win means. Do we go in and flatten it? ... I don’t want another Vietnam. I don’t want to have people
say we’ve wasted a thousand lives for nothing.” [Portsmouth Herald, 5/2/99]
→ May 2, 1999 -- Senate Assistant Majority Leader Don Nickles (R-OK) criticized the war process in
Kosovo and called for an end to the military campaign. “We need to try and achieve a compromise,”
Nickles said. “We need a diplomatic resolution. Whether he personally meets with him or not, I hope
this administration really aggressively pursues a diplomatic solution. This war is not going well.”-
[NBC “Meet the Press,” 5/2/99]
→ May 3, 1999 -- Sen. Don Nickles (R-OK) criticized the Clinton administration and NATO’s military
campaign in Kosovo and said, “I want NATO to be credible, but for crying out loud, when you are so
arrogant to say here is our wisdom, here is this accord, we determined this is in your best interest and
you must sign it or else we are going to bomb you--I stated in my speech on the bombing resolution
that I don't think you can bomb a country into submission or into signing an agreement. I doubted
then that Mr. Milosevic, after the bombs were going to fall, was going to raise the white flag and say:
Now I see the wisdom. That didn't happen in Bosnia. It got his attention in Bosnia. In fact, the
Croatian army was ethnically cleansing their own, and he was losing the war. He decided to be more
interested in a peace agreement.” [Congressional Record, Senator Don Nickles, 5/3/99]
→ May 3, 1999 -- During an interview, GOP House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (TX) said, “We’re not
paying for the air war. We’re paying to rebuild our defenses, which this Administration has gutted.”
[Associated Press, 5/3/99]
→ May 3, 1999 -- Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) placed all responsibility of the Kosovo military
engagement on the Clinton administration. “This is President Clinton’s war, and when he falls flat on
his face, that’s his problem,” Lugar said. [New York Times, 5/4/99]
→ May 4, 1999 -- In an interview with the Washington Post, DeLay was quoted as saying, “I had the
utmost confidence in President Bush. He had laid the groundwork, and our national interest in the
Middle East was clear. In the gulf we had a country that was invaded [Kuwait], and an oil interest to
defend. … [In the Balkans] we have a president I don’t trust, who has proven my reason for not
trusting him: had no plan. We have a civil war that was falsely described as a huge humanitarian
problem, when in comparison to other places, it was nothing.” [Washington Post, 5/4/99]
→ May 4, 1999 -- The Scotsman reported, “The Senate majority leader, Trent Lott, said at the weekend:
‘I think that, as Jesse Jackson would say, give peace a chance here. There seems to be some
momentum. There seems to be an opportunity - we should seize this moment. As a matter of fact,
you know, I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning. I didn't think we had
done enough in the diplomatic area.’” [Scotsman, 5/4/99, emphasis added]
May 5, 1999 -- Two American Apache crew members were killed in Albania. The American soldiers
were the only NATO casualties during the air strikes. [Associated Press, 5/5/99]
→ May 5, 1999 -- The New York Times quoted Senator Slade Gorton (R-WA) as saying, “We should
not use Social Security to pay for a war in the Balkans.” [New York Times, 5/21/99]
→ May 7, 1999 – Speaking on the House floor, then-GOP Presidential candidate and House Budget
Committee Chairman Rep. John Kasich (R-OH) criticized the Clinton administration’s policy in
Kosovo and said, “Escalating this war doesn’t make any sense because starting this war did not make
any sense.” [Washington Times, 5/7/99]
→ May 7, 1999 -- The Washington Post quoted GOP House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (TX) as saying,
“While we may not support the President’s ill-advised war, we do support our troops. … Without any
coherent international blueprint, the White House has bombed its way around the globe while
dropping troops far and wide for ill-defined peacemaking duties. This policy has gutted the American
military, which now must be rebuilt.” [Washington Post, 5/7/99]
→ May 19, 1999 -- GOP members of the House Armed Services Committee voted to prevent the use of
any of the funds in the fiscal year 2000 defense authorization to fund NATO’s efforts -- combat or
peacekeeping -- in Yugoslavia. Democratic Rep. Gene Taylor (TX) offered an amendment to remove
the Yugoslavia funding restriction, but Republican committee members defeated the measure 27 to
31. [CQ House Committee Coverage, 5/20/99]
→ May 20, 1999 -- While speaking on the floor of the Senate Banking Committee about funding air
assaults in the Balkans, Sen. Phil Gramm (R-TX) said, “I don’t see how we are going to save Social
Security if we keep spending the surplus.” [Washington Times, 5/21/99]
June 10, 1999 -- NATO bombing campaign in Kosovo ended with signing of peace accord. [Associated
Press, 6/10/99]