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Episode 496: BOB DOLE 1995 Clintons Comeback (Part F) Bob Dole’s Final Remarks on Bosnia (5) · BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback

• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: American troops would be to deny what we have learned and what those earlier generations sacrificed.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: It would weaken American leadership in NATO and it would undermine our credibility as a world leader.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: Second, we have a moral obligation in Bosnia.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: For nearly 50 years, we believed that we would never see concentration camps in Europe.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: We would never again see men and boys made to dig their own mass graves and then be machine gunned into them.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: We were wrong.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: This is happening in Bosnia.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: And our national conscience demands that we take a strong stand against it.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: In 1948, three years after the end of World War II, the French writer and philosopher Albert Camus appealed to the monks of a French monastery to help the children who had been injured and orphaned in that war.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: Perhaps we cannot present this world from being a world in which the children are tortured, Camus said.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: But we can reduce the number of children who are tortured.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: And if you don't help us, who else in the world can help us do it?
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that brings me to the third reason we must implement this agreement.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: The United States must help bring peace to Bosnia because no one else in the world can.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: The leaders of all three factions, the Serbs, the Croats, and the Muslims, have made it clear that they will not participate in the peace process unless we are involved.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: I commend tonight the president and all of the members of the negotiating team who worked so hard in Dayton to get us to this point.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: They accomplished what many said was impossible, and their leadership is already saving lives.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: Without the commitment of this president to peace in the Balkans, there would be no debate tonight, for we would not be on the verge of peace.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: I also want to commend the distinguished majority leader, Senator McCain, Senator Nunn, and all of the senators in our Bosnia working group for the leadership they've shown in negotiating a resolution that says, unequivocally, to our troops, we support you.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: The mission that our troops tonight begin to undertake will give the Bosnian people an opportunity to build a democratic society.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: Bosnia-Herzegovina will be preserved as a single state with a unified capital in Sarajevo.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: The Bosnian people will be allowed to hold free elections, and those who have been driven from their homes through fighting and other forms of terrorism will at long last be free to return.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_00: Our mission is clear, limited, and achievable.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: We are sending our troops to maintain a ceasefire.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: They will take their orders from an American general and they will have full authority to respond to the threats to their safety with immediate and overwhelming force.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: Again, the critical question is: are we going to give our troops our genuine support as they seek to carry out their mission?
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_00: Or are we going to burden them with conflicting messages?
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: Mr.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: President, I believe the Hutchinson Amendment is gravely misguided and even dangerous.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_00: It claims to support our troops, but in fact, it undermines them.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: How can we support our troops if we condemn the mission for which they have been risking their lives?
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_00: Have we learned nothing from our own history?
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: Sending such a contradictory message would badly undermine the morale of our troops and jeopardize their safety.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: It would also undermine U.S.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: credibility, our commitment to peace, and our commitment to our NATO allies.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_00: Finally, let there be no doubt.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_00: Sending such a conflicting message would undermine the peace agreement itself and efforts to implement it.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: The responsible vote is a vote for the bipartisan resolution offered by the majority leader.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: This resolution supports our troops unequivocally.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_00: It commends them for their professionalism and patriotism and their bravery.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_00: It assures that they will have all the resources and authority they need to protect the peace and to protect themselves.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_00: It recognizes the vital interests our nation has been has in has in preventing the spread of the Bosnian conflict and ending the bloodshed.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_00: It preserves America's leadership within NATO, and it preserves our credibility with our allies.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_00: And it requires the president to certify two important conditions.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: First, that the NATO implementation force is limited to the implementation of the peace agreement and the protection of NATO troops.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: And second, that the U.S.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_00: objectives in Bosnia are to maintain the peace and establish a military balance that will allow the Bosnia Muslims to defend themselves when NATO withdraws.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_00: As the Senator from Oklahoma noted earlier tonight, the Hutchinson Inhoff and the Dole McCain resolutions are contradictory.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_00: The Hutchinson Resolution, although it is non-binding, sends a dangerous and conflicting message that will undermine and endanger American troops.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_00: The Dole McCain Resolution is binding.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: It's legislation that asserts congressional authority and responsibility and sends a clear message that we support our troops and the cause for which they are risking their lives.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: And it is the right thing to do.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_00: To echo the words of Camus, the United States cannot prevent all wars everywhere, but we can reduce the number of children and adults killed in Bosnia.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_00: Our national security and our national conscience demand that we try.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: I yield the floor.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_02: Majority leader is recognized.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_07: And with this episode, you're going to hear we open with Tom Bashville, a Democratic leader.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_07: This has been an issue ruling for a couple of years in which he has been a leader.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_07: South Vietnam.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_07: When the folks were made on fail.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_07: When we cut off the money.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_04: We're about to cast a vote, Sergeant Jones or Private Smith, or whoever it is, to indicate that we support your efforts there.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_04: And they may have misgiving themselves on why they're there, and we may have doubts about why they're there.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_04: And I listened to the eloquent statement of the Senate of Marizona, Senator McCain.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_04: And I listened last evening, the final speaker of the evening, Senator Cohen from Maine.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_04: But this is not about politics.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_04: This is not about a Democratic president and a Republican majority in the United States Senate.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_04: This is about a lot of frightened young Americans who are in Bosnia or on their way to Bosnia.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_04: And I assume they may not have thought of it directly, but I believe they'll think of it one of these days that they're going to be looking back to see did we have the support of those who represent us in the Congress of the United States?
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_04: They may not think of that at 10 after 4 a.m.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_04: So this is a very difficult debate for members of Congress.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_04: It's a difficult debate because Congress was not part of the decision making with respect to sending troops.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_04: Congress was not consulted.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_04: Congress was told of the President's commitments to send troops after the commitment was made.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_04: And then we were faced with the dilemma of undermining that commitment or acquiescing in a military mission with serious flaws.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_04: And to make no mistake about it, the president said so he made this decision, he takes responsibility.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_04: It was his decision to send troops and his decision alone.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_04: A lot of members of Congress and some on both sides of the aisle.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_04: In fact, 69 of us have voted the last time to lift the arms embargo to give the Bosnians an opportunity to defend themselves for precisely the reason we're here tonight, so we wouldn't be sending American troops.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_04: We wouldn't be making that decision.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_04: But the president rejected that.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_04: That was bipartisan in the House and in the Senate.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_04: We opposed the arms embargo.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_04: As I said, we repeatedly lifted or voted to lift it.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_04: And some of my colleagues were concerned about that.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_04: Now we have two resolutions before us tonight.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_04: And I understand that a number of senators support the resolution offered by the Senator from Texas, the Senator Smokloma, Senator Innoff, Senator Nichols, and a number of others.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_04: That resolution emphasizes very clearly that we oppose the decision to employ troops.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_04: No doubt about it.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_04: We disapprove, we disagree, we oppose.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_04: Those are three words that were discussed.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_04: It is his decision.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_04: He said as much recently as I think Sunday on 60 minutes.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_04: However, a vote on this resolution does not provide our troops who are now in Bosnia at eight after four in the morning, and the other thousands who'll be there tomorrow or next week or next month away home.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_04: I think it makes a point, but it doesn't make a policy, but it doesn't affect a policy.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_04: It doesn't make the job our forces have to do any any safer or any easier, nor does it provide a plan to achieve a military balance in Bosnia or increase the chances for successful completion of our mission.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_04: I assume most of our colleagues will vote for that resolution.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_04: And if they do, I hope that I wish they would follow up their signal to President Clinton by voting yes on the Dole McCain none resolution.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_04: And I want to be clear about what that resolution does and does not do.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_04: This resolution does not endorse the president's decision.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_04: It does not endorse the agreement reached in Dayton.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_04: It does support our men and women in uniform.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_04: It does limit the mission to military tasks only, and requires a realistic exit strategy based on the goal of Bosnian self-reliance.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_04: To put it simply, President Clinton has a plan to get us into Bosnia.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_04: This resolution shows us a way out.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_04: And it sets three conditions on the deployment of American forces.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_04: Number one, it limits the mission to implementing military provisions of the accord, no Somalia-style nation building, for example.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_04: It insists on an exit strategy linked to military balance so Bosnia can defend itself.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_04: Somebody told me this.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_04: Somebody was saying, well, that's bad policy because if they're armed and trained, we may have to stay longer.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_04: I don't understand that argument.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_04: We've been debating on this floor for two years.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_04: We ought to arm and train the Bosnians, lift the arms embargoes, they can defend themselves.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_04: And that's precisely what we wish to do here.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_04: And number three, also provides U.S.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_04: leadership an immediate effort to provide Bosnia that means to defend itself.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_04: And I think if these conditions are met, they will help enhance the safety of our forces and assure that they can withdraw in a timely manner and without triggering a resumption of hostilities.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_04: And let us be clear, setting a date is not an exit strategy.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_04: In fact, many will argue that if we set a date, nothing will happen until that date expires and then hostilities will reoccur.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_04: And I just suggest that I think that we've been able to perform a valuable service here for our colleagues, regardless of their feelings about the decision.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_04: I don't agree with it, you don't agree with it, maybe some do agree with the decision.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_04: The decision's been made, deployment started.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_04: And our goal should be a Bosnia that is self-reliant, able to defend itself without depending on the United States or any outside force.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_04: And I want to emphasize just a few points on this critical issue.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_04: First, the word lead is essential.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_04: Without U.S.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_04: leadership, this will not happen.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_04: Leading does not mean going in alone, but it does mean acting like the sole remaining superpower.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_04: Second, our language makes it clear that the effort to arm and train will take place separate and apart from the nation, from NATO, I-4.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_04: No U.S.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_04: military forces or NATO operation will be involved in enabling Bosnia to defend itself.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_04: And finally, this resolution states that the Bosnians should be provided with assistance of the highest possible quality, American where necessary, and that of other countries when sufficient.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_04: I would also like to point out that this resolution requires a president to report extensively on his plan to enable Bosnia to provide for its own defense and on all aspects of the military and civilian aspects of the operation.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_04: I would also like to say a few words about Senator McCain and his leadership on national security issues.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_04: From his sacrifice during Vietnam, and I can remember, I don't think I was no one, I wasn't standing here.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_04: I wasn't in the leadership.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_04: I was standing back there somewhere.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_04: I was wearing a John McCain bracelet proudly, POW bracelet.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_04: And I was arguing with my Democratic colleagues on the other side not to cut off funding in the Vietnam War.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_04: I let the debate on this floor for seven weeks in an effort to derail those who would cut off funding.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_04: While John McCain was in a little box over there in prison, and there were thousands like him, and thousands and thousands of Americans.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_04: But the theory was, oh, we just cut off funding, the war's gonna end.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_04: It's not the way it works.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_04: So John McCain came back, and others came back, and others didn't come back, as Senator McCain said earlier.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_04: And then he became a freshman congressman and he opposed the deployment in Lebanon in 1983.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_04: And it seems to me not that he has, not that I have any more insight than anybody else in this body.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_04: But there's something about the relationship that you build up in the service.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_04: And you understand one thing how important support is from America, whether it's your family, whether it's your little hometown, whether it's your state, whether it's the Congress, United States.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna take some of my leaders' time.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_04: So I would just say to Senator McCain and many others who were prisoners of war in Viet Vietnam no one works any harder on the issues of war and peace.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_04: I didn't agree with Senator McCain on normalizing relations with Vietnam.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_04: But he was there and I wasn't.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_04: And no one takes his responsibility more seriously.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_04: And we couldn't have reached this agreement without his almost minute by minute involvement.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_04: And let me say one other thing about leadership.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_04: Not easy.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_04: Easiest vote is no, no, no.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_04: I recall being on the floor in this position in January of 1991, like 9th or 10th, 11th, and 12th, when we had troops in the Gulf.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_04: And President Bush had decided to come to Congress and ask for support.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_04: Three days of it.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_04: Democrats and Republicans, and I don't question anybody's motives.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_04: But the thing that struck me, as I looked at it at the time, as I look back on it now, not a single member of the Democratic leadership in the House or the Senate would stand up on this floor or the House floor and support President Bush.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_04: They didn't have to agree with President Bush.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_04: I don't agree with President Clinton, but the truths were there.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_04: And I thought that was a tragic mistake.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_04: You pay a price for leadership, and some will have short term political gain, and some just truly feel we should.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_04: Be doing anything.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_04: And the only vote is no.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_04: But I would ask my colleagues.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_04: It's now 17 after 4 a.m.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_04: in Bosnia.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_04: And Americans are there.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_04: So if we had cut off funding this morning, I don't know what would have happened.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_04: And if we pass the Hutchison resolution, I don't know what's gonna happen.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_04: But I would hope that if we pass the Dole McCain none-at-all resolution, that we will have provided an exit strategy.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_04: A way to extricate Americans by arming and training Bosnians so that they can be an independent force and so we can go home.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_04: So that those Americans who are there today at 18 after 4 a.m.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_04: in the morning won't be there next Christmas.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_04: And that's what this debate's all about.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_04: It's not easy.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_04: And I've had a lot of mail, a lot of phone calls from a lot of people who I don't think understand the issue.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_04: The issue we're voting on tonight is not a decision to send American troops.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_04: Let me conclude with that.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_04: We can posture and complain about the president's decision.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_04: I don't like it.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_04: He knows I don't like it.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_04: I've told him I don't like it.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_04: I've said it public I don't like it.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_04: Had we got our way with a lifty embargo, we wouldn't be talking about sending troops.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_04: That's our argument.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_04: I think it would have been correct.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_04: So I guess.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_04: What our decision is whether we're going to send a message to all the families in America, to all the troops on the way to Bosnia, plus all the other American forces who someday may be engaged in some conflict.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_04: Because we are, we do have a responsibility from time to time.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_04: And they will ask themselves do we have the support of the American people, of our families, and of our representatives.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_04: I think that's what this debate's all about.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_04: And I hope that's how it's received by the people who watch or listen or read the record or listen to each other.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_04: So I would ask my colleagues to uh think very carefully.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_04: We're gonna be baiting this, I assume this is just the first debate.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_04: There'll be a debate a month from now, two months from now, three months from now, four months from now.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_04: If something happens, there'll be other debates and other efforts made.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_04: But this is the important.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_04: This is the first step.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_04: This is a signal to the American forces that we support you.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_04: We support you as we should.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_04: Fine out, ask consent that I can include in the record and exchange I've had with the president on his assurances that the Bosnians uh will be provided with arms and the training they need.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_04: I think uh the letters are very important as part of the legislative history, because the president has given his word that that training will be provided and arms will be furnished.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_04: And again, that's very important.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_04: Maybe lost on someone now, but it's gonna be very important.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_04: Not a year from now, as Senator Maine said last night.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_04: Nine months from now.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_04: Nine months from now is when it starts.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_04: And if they're not trained, if we have to wait six months, it may be lost.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_04: So it's up to us.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_04: If not now, when this is the time to support American forces.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_04: And I'd ask that my entire statement made it part of the record.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_04: Not objection.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_05: Question occurs on the passage of Senate concurrent resolution 35.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_05: The ays and nays have not been ordered.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_05: Is there a sufficient second?
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_05: There is a sufficient second.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_05: Clerk will now call the roll.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_03: Mr.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_03: Abraham, Mr.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_03: Akaka, Mr.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_03: Ashcroft, Mr.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_03: Bacchus, Mr.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_03: Bennett, Mr.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_06: Biden, Senators voting in the affirmative.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_06: Abraham, Bacchus, Bennett, Biden, Bengaman, Bond, Boxer, Bradley, Bre, Bryan, Bumpers, Burns, Bird, Campbell, Chafee, Cochrane, Cohen, Conrad, DeWine, Dodd, Dole, Dorgan, Exon, Feinstein, Ford, Glenn, Gorton, Graham of Florida, Harkin, Hatch, Hefflin, Hollings, Inoway, Jeffords, Johnston, Cassabum, Kennedy, Carey of Nebraska, Carey of Massachusetts, Cole, Loutenberg, Leahy, Levin, Lieberman, Luger, Mack, McCain, McConnell, McCulski, Mosley Braun, Moynihan, Murkowski, Murray, Pell, Pryor, Reed, Robb, Rockefeller, Roth, Simon, Simpson, Spector, Stevens, and Wellstone.
• 28:29
  unknown: Mr.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_06: Sarbanes, Mr.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_06: Sarbanes, I.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_06: Senators voting in the negative.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_06: Ashcroft, Coates, Coverdale, D'Amato, Demenici, Faircloth, Fine Gold, Frist, Graham of Texas, Grams of Minnesota, Grassley, Greg, Hatfield, Helms, Hutchison, Enhoff, Kyle, Lott, Nichols, Pressler, Santorum, Shelby, Smith, Thomas, Thurmond, and Warner.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_06: Mr.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_06: Craig.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_06: Mr.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_06: Craig, no.
• 29:09
  unknown: Mr.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_06: Kempthorne, Mr.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_06: Kempthorne, I.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_06: Snow.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_06: Mrs.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_06: Snow, no.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_06: Mr.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_06: Dashell.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_06: Mr.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_06: Dashel, I.
• 29:22
  unknown: Mr.
• 29:23
  unknown: Ford.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_06: Mr.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_06: Ford, aye.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_01: Mr.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_01: Nunn.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_01: Mr.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_01: Nunn, aye.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_01: On this resolution, the yas are 69.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_01: The nays are 30.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_01: The resolution is passed.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_01: And without objection, the preamble is agreed to.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_07: Dole's final position.
• 29:48
  unknown: Ms.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_07: President.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_07: Bob Dole faced a complicated decision.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_07: He spent years criticizing the administration policy.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_07: He believed many mistakes had been made.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_07: He also believed American credibility mattered.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_07: Dole ultimately supported implementation of the peace agreement while continuing to criticize the past that had led there.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_07: It was a position that reflected his Cold War.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_07: America should lead.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_07: America should honor its commitments.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_07: Bob Dole emerged as one of the administration's most persistent critics.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_07: NATO demonstrated a willingness to use force.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_07: And the Dayton Accords ended one of Europe's bloodiest conflicts since World War II.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_07: And as 1996 approached, both Clinton and Dole carried lessons from Bosnia into a presidential campaign that would soon dominate American politics.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_07: For Clinton, Bosnia became evidence that American leadership could still shape world events.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_07: For Dole, it remained a reminder of what happens when leadership arrives.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_07: Too late.