| I told Rather that I had no idea what she would... 640 |
[Feb. 4th, 2010|02:49 am] |
I told Rather that I had no idea what she would do, but that if she ran and won, she would be magnificent
In April, the Kosovo conflict intensified as we extended the bombing to downtown Belgrade, hitting the Interior Ministry, Serbias state television headquarters, and Milosevics party headquarters and his homeWe also dramatically increased our financial support and troop presence in neighboring Albania and Macedonia to help them deal with the large number of refugees flooding inBy the end of the month, when Milosevic still hadnt folded, opposition to our policy was coming from both directionsTony Blair and some members of Congress thought it was time to send in ground troops, while the House of Representatives voted to deny the use of troops without prior approval of Congress
I still believed the air campaign would work, and hoped we could avoid sending ground troops until their mission was to keep the peaceOn April 14, I called Boris Yeltsin to request Russian troop participation in a post-conflict peacekeeping force, as in BosniaI thought a Russian presence would help protect the Serb minority and might give Milosevic a face-saving way out of his opposition to foreign troops
A lot of other things happened in AprilOn the fifth, Libya finally handed over two suspects in the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988They would be tried before Scottish judges in The HagueThe White House had been deeply involved in the issue for yearsI |
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