KOSOVO AND MAYBE SERBIA AS WELL, SOME OF WHICH WE MAY ATTEMPT
           WITH GREAT ERRORLESSER SUCCESS TO PASS OFF ON OUR ALLIES. WE
           HAVE TO SUPPORT THE INDEPENDENCE OF THAT COUNTRY. ITS RESIDENCE
           CAN NO -- ITS RESIDENTS CAN NO LONGER LIVE WITH SERBIA AT ALL.
           AND THAT INDEPENDENCE AND THAT OCCUPATION IN MY VIEW ARE THE
           ONLY WAYS THAT WE WILL PERSUADE KOSOVAR ALBANIANS TO RETURN TO
           THEIR HOMES. THE NEXT ALTERNATIVE, OF COURSE COURSE, IS THE

           RUSSIAN COMPROMISE, DEFEAT DISGUISED AS A FORM OF COMPROMISE.
           THE KOSOVARS UNDER THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES, WITHOUT AN AMERICAN
           OCCUPATION, WITH A RUSSIAN OCCUPATION, WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY BY
           THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS BE RIGHTLY FRIGHTENED TO RETURN TO
           THEIR HOMES. SUCH A COMPROMISE IS LIKELY TO END UP IN A
           PARTITION IN WHICH SERBIA ENDS UP WITH FAR MORE OF KOSOVO THAN
           IT DESERVES GIVEN ITS ACTIONS. BUT IT IS NOW A COURSE OF ACTION

           ADVOCATED BY THE PREVIOUS SPEAKER AND BY MANY OTHERS -- DEFEAT
           DISGUISED AS COMPROMISE. AND, FINALLY, WE HAVE THE MCCAIN
           RESOLUTION -- A GROUND WAR LED BY THIS ADMINISTRATION, WHICH
           HAS ALREADY SHOWN ITSELF INCOMPETENT TO RUN EVEN AN AIR WAR,
           AND A 19-MEMBER STEERING COMMITTEE, A PRESCRIPTION, MADAM
           PRESIDENT, FOR TOTAL DISASTER. NOW, WHAT ABOUT THE SECOND
           QUESTION, THE INEVITABLE QUESTION OF THE QUALITY OF OUR
           NATIONAL LEADERSHIP?

           BY ITS OWN CRITERIA, THE ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN A TOTAL
           FAILURE. IT HAS NOT PROTECTED THE KOSOVARS. IT HAS NOT
           PREVENTED A SPREAD OF THE WAR. ITS LEADERSHIP IS ALL SPIN, NO
           RECOGNITION OF ITS OWN DIFFICULTIES, NO WILLINGNESS TO EXPLAIN
           TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES WHAT IT IS ALL ABT OR WHERE
           WE ARE GOING. WE CAN HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN EITHER THE
           PREPARATION OF THIS ADMINISTRATION OR THE CONDUCT OF ITS
           OPERATIONS. SO, MADAM PRESIDENT, WE GET TO THE ULTIMATE

           QUESTION. WE'RE ASKED BY THIS RESOLUTION TO GRANT UNLIMITED
           AUTHORITY TO WAGE WAR IN YUGOSLAVIA TO AN ADMINISTRATION
           UNWILLING TO USE THAT AUTHORITY AND INCOMPETENT TO CARRY IT OUT
           IF IT WERE WILLING. AT THIS POINT, MADAM PRESIDENT, I'D LIKE TO
           ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT FOR INCLUSION IN THE RECORD OF THE "TIME"
           MAGAZINE COLUMN BY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER LAST WEEK THAT STATES
           THAT POSITION MORE ELOQUENTLY THAN I CAN. AS A CONSEQUENCE,

           MADAM PRESIDENT, WHAT MIGHT BE AN APPROPRIATE RESPONSE TO AN
           ADMINISTRATION THAT SOUGHT IT, THAT EXPRESSED ITS GOALS
           COHERENTLY ENOUGH TO DEFINE WHAT WINNING WAS AND CONFIDENT TO
           REACH ITS GOALS IS TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE TO GRANT TO THIS
           ADMINISTRATION UNASKED, UNWILLING AND UNABLE TO CARRY ON A WAR
           OF THIS IMPORTANCE. THE INEVITABLE VOTE ON THIS RESOLUTION,

           MADAM PRESIDENT, IS TO VOTE TO TABLE IT. MR. MCCAIN: MADAM
           PRESIDENT?
           
           
           THE PRESIDING OFFICER:HE SENATOR FROM ARIZONA.
           

           MR. MCCAIN: MADAM PRESIDENT, FOR THE INFORMATION OF MY
           COLLEAGUES, SENATOR CHAFEE IS UP NEXT FOR TEN MINUTES. SENATOR
           INHOFE FOR 30 MINUTES, SENATOR ROBB FOR 20 MINUTES, SENATOR
           LEAHY FOR TEN MINUTES, SENATOR BUNNING, 10 MINUTES; SENATOR
           DOMENICI, TEN MINUTES; SENATOR LANDRIEU, FIVE MINUTES; SENATOR
           DORGAN, TEN MINUTES S. SENATOR BIDEN, 30 MINUTES. SENATOR
           DURBIN, 10 MINUTES, SENATOR WARNER, 10 MINUTES. SENATOR
           NICKLES, 20 MINUTES. SENATOR KERREY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOR 30
           MINUTES, AND SENATOR DODD FOR 15 MINUTES. MADAM PRESIDENT, MAY

           I JUST MAKE ONE ADDITIONAL COMMENT. THIS RESOLUTION DOESN'T
           CALL FOR GROUND OPERATIONS. THIS RESOLUTION CALLS FOR USE OF
           WHATEVER FORCE IS NECESSARY TO BRING THIS WAR TO A CONCLUSION.
           THOSE WHO PORTRAY THIS AS A RESOLUTION THAT CALLS FOR GROUND
           OPERATIONS SIMPLY MISCHARACTERIZE THE RESOLUTION. AND I BELIEVE
           THAT I AM OWED, ALONG WITH SENATOR BIDEN, THE INTELLECTUAL
           HONESTY TO AT LEAST PORTRAY THIS RESOLUTION FOR WHAT IT IS,
           WHICH IS A RESOLUTION TO USE WHATEVER FORCE IS NECESSARY, WHICH

           IS EXACTLY THE SAME RESOLUTION AS THE PERSIAN GULF WAR. MADAM
           PRESIDENT, I YIELD TEN MINUTES TO THE SENATOR FROM RHODE
           ISLAND, SENATOR CHAFEE.
           

           THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE SENATOR FROM RHODE ISLAND IS
           RECOGNIZED.
           

           MR. CHAFEE: THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. AND I WANT TO THANK THE
           MANAGER OF THE BILL. MADAM PRESIDENT, I WILL SUPPORT THE MOTION
           TO TABLE NOT BECAUSE I'M OPPOSED TO PROPERLY CARRYING OUT THIS
           MILITARY CAMPAIGN BUT BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT SETTING THIS
           RESOLUTION ASIDE TODAY WILL GIVE NATO A BETTER CHANCE TO
           ACHIEVE OUR MILITARY OBJECTIVES IN KOSOVO. SINCE THE EARLY DAYS
           OF THIS MILITARY CAMPAIGN, I HAVE ARGUED THAT THE PRESIDENT
           OUGHT NOT TO HAVE RULED OUT THE USE OF GROUND TROOPS AS A

           MILITARY OPTION IN NATO'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST YUGOSLAV FORCES IN
           KOSOVO. SENDING THAT SIGNAL GIVES PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC SOME
           COMFORT KNOWING THAT HIS ARMY AND SERB PARAMILITARY FORCES
           WOULD NOT HAVE TO CONFRONT A NATO GROUND CAMPAIGN. THAT GIVES
           MILOSEVIC A FREER HAND IN CARRYING OUT HIS BRUTAL CAMPAIGN OF
           ETHNIC CLEANSING AGAINST ETHNIC ALBANIANS. TODAY, THE SENATE
           MUST DECIDE WHETHER TO GIVE THE PRESIDENT AUTHORITY TO USE --
           QUOTE -- "ALL NECESSARY FORCE AND OTHER MEANS" TO ACCOMPLISH

           U.S. AND NATO OBJECTIVES IN YUGOSLAVIA. PASSAGE WOULD CERTAINLY
           PERMIT THE ADMINISTRATION TO SEND U.S. GROUND FORCES INTO
           YUGOSLAVIA. I COMMEND THE EFFORTS OF SENATOR MCCAIN AND THE
           OTHER SPONSORS OF THIS RESOLUTION WHO I KNOW HAVE ONLY OUR
           NATIONAL INTERESTS IN MIND IN BRINGING THIS MEASURE FORWARD
           TODAY. MY INSTINCT IS TO SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION. HOWEVER, I
           MUST OPPOSE CONSIDERING IT AT THIS TIME FOR TWO REASONS. FIRST,
           IT SHOULD BE CLEAR TO ANYONE FOLLOWING THIS DEBATE THAT A

           MAJORITY OF SENATORS NEEDED TO PASS THIS RESOLUTION SIMPLY DOES
           NOT EXIST TODAY. AN ACRIMONIOUS DEBATE FOLLOWED BY A VOTE
           AGAINST GRANTING THE PRESIDENT ENHANCED AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT
           THIS MILITARY CAMPAIGN WOULD WEAKEN SIGNIFICANTLY I BELIEVE
           NATO'S HAND IN CARRYING OUT ITS MISSION. SUCH A VOTE WOULD GIVE
           MILOSEVIC AND HIS BAND OF MARAUDERS IN KOSOVO AID AND COMFORT
           IN FIGHTING AN ALLIANCE LED BY A DIVIDED U.S. GOVERNMENT. SO IN
           THE INTERESTS OF TAKING ON MILOSEVIC WITH A UNIFIED FRONT AS

           POSSIBLE, I THINK A VOTE TODAY TO TABLE THIS RESOLUTION WOULD
           BE PRUDENT. SECOND, IT'S NOT ENTIRELY CLEAR TO ME WHETHER THE
           TIMING FOR PASSAGE OF THIS RESOLUTION IS APPROPRIATE, ALTHOUGH
           MANY ARE FRUSTRATED AT THE PROGRESS OF THE SIX-WEEK AIR
           CAMPAIGN, I THINK IT DESERVES A CHANCE TO SUCCEED. NO ONE EVER
           SAID THAT THIS MILITARY CAMPAIGN WOULD BE QUICK AND TIDY. WARS
           RARELY ARE. AND IT'S WRONG TO DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE RESULT.
           HOWEVER, IF IN THE COMING DAYS AND WEEKS THE PRESIDENT AND OUR

           NATO ALLIES DECIDE THAT GROUND FORCES ARE, IN FACT, NEEDED TO
           CARRY OUT OUR CAMPAIGN AGAINST YUGOSLAV FORCES, I BELIEVE THE
           CONSIDERATION OF THIS RESOLUTION WOULD BE APPROPRIATE AND I
           WOULD VOTE FOR IT. SO, MADAM PRESIDENT, WHILE MY INSTINCT IS TO
           SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION TODAY, I BELIEVE IT IS PREMATURE. THUS,
           I SHALL VOTE TO TERRIBLE THE RESOLUTION. I WANT TO THANK THE
           CHAIR AND THANK THE MANAGERS.
           

           THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE SENATOR FROM ARIZONA.
           

           MR. MCCAIN: I YIELD 30 MINUTES TO THE SENATOR FROM OKLAHOMA,
           SENATOR INHOFE.
           

           THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE SENATOR FROM OKLAHOMA IS RECOGNIZED
           FOR 30 MINUTES.
           

           MR. INHOFE: I THANK THE SENATOR FROM ARIZONA AND PARTICULARLY
           THE WAY HE'S CONDUCTED HIMSELF IN THIS DEBATE IN SPITE OF THE
           FACT THERE ARE MANY OF US WHO DO NOT AGREE WITH HIM AND THE
           RESOLUTION. AND I THANK THE PRESIDENT FOR THE TIME. LET ME
           FIRST OF ALL SHARE SOME IDEAS PERHAPS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN
           DISCUSSED. I'VE DONE A LOT OF CROSSING OFF AS I'VE SAT HERE
           TODAY, TAKING OFF THINGS THAT I HAVE HEARD THAT I WAS GOING TO

           SAY AND SO I HAVE SHORTENED IT, I WOULD SUGGEST, TO THE SENATOR
           FROM ARIZONA. I WON'T PROBABLY USE ALL MY TIME. LET ME FIRST OF
           ALL SAY THAT MONTHS AGO I WENT  KOSOVO WHEN I SAW THE
           HANDWRITING ON THE WALL, WHEN I FELT THAT ULTIMATELY THIS
           PRESIDENT WAS GOING TO SEND GROUND TROOPS INTO -- ON THE GROUND
           IN KOSOVO IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT HE CONTINUOUSLY SAID THAT
           HE WAS NOT GOING TO DO IT. I FELT VERY STRONGLY THAT HE WAS.
           AND I WENT OVER TO SEE IF I COULD FIND OUT AS MUCH AS I COULD
           BEFORE ALL OF THE BOMBING STARTED WHAT IT WAS REALLY LIKE IN

           KOSOVO, AND TRULY MILOSEVIC IS JUST AS BAD A PERSON AS
           EVERYBODY SAYS HE IS. I DON'T QUESTION THAT. BUT ONE OF THE
           THINGS I CAME BACK WITH WAS THE KNOWLEDGE THAT IT'S A LITTLE
           BIT OF THE HISTORY OF THE AREA AND THAT SOME OF THE PEOPLE OVER
           THERE, THERE ARE OTHER BAD PEOPLE TOO. FOR EXAMPLE, YOU'RE
           TALKING ABOUT KOSOVO, WHICH IS A VERY SMALL -- IT'S ABOUT 75
           MILES IN DIAMETER. IT'S SURROUNDED BY MOUNTAINS. AND FOR 600
           YEARS, HAS BEEN AN AREA THERE THAT HAS TRIED TO STRIVE FOR

           AUTONOMY UNSUCCESSFULLY. THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES WHEN THE
           ALBANIANS HAVE BEEN THE BAD GUYS AND THE SERBS HAVE BEEN THE
           GOOD GUYS AND VICE VERSA. IT WAS ABOUT 12 YEARS AGO THAT WE
           WERE ALL SO CONCERNED BECAUSE THE K.L.A. WAS DOING ALL THE
           RAPING AND LOOTING AND BURNING AND NOT THE SERBS. I ALSO IN
           GOING ACROSS NOTICED ONLY TWO DEAD PEOPLE IN THE ROAD GOING
           ACROSS THE -- KOSOVO. AND I TURNED THEM OVER, THEY ENDED UP
           BEING SERBS. THEY WERE KILLED BY THE K.L.A. THEY WERE EXECUTED

           POINT-BLANK RANGE. ROUNDED THE CORNER ABOUT TEN MINUTES LATER
           AND I SAW A SOMEONE -- I FOUND MYSELF IN THE SIGHTS OF A
           RIFLE-PROPELED GRENADE, AN RPG-7, A VERY LETHAL WEAPON. AND
           THEN AFTER THEY PUT IT DOWN, WE WALKED OVER AND IT WAS THE
           K.L.A. IT WASN'T THE SERBS. I WENT ON AND SAW ON THE MAP A
           PLACED THAT WAS CALLED THE "NO-GO ZONE." AND THE NO-GO ZONE. I
           ASKED WHAT IT WAS, AND THEY SAID THAT'S WHERE YOU DON'T GO.
           THEY DON'T CARE WHETHER YOU'RE A UNITED STATES SENATOR OR
           WHETHER YOU'RE A SERB OR YOU'RE AN ALBANIA. IF YOU GO IN THERE,

           YOU'RE GOING TO BE SHOT. AND IT WAS CONTROLLED BY THE K.L.A. I
           GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING, MADAM PRESIDENT, IS THAT IT'S -- THERE
           ARE BAD GUYS ON BOTH SIDES. I'D LIKE TO JUST MENTION ONE THING
           ABOUT THE CHINA SCANDAL BECAUSE I SEE A CONNECTION HERE. YOU
           KNOW, I HATE TO SAY THIS, BUT SEVERAL COUPLE MONTHS AGO ON THIS
           FLOOR I TOLD THE HISTORY OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN THE CHINA
           SCANDAL AND THE FACT THAT BACK IN THE 1980'S, THE TECHNOLOGY
           KNOWN AS THE WA-8 TECHNOLOGY WAS STOLEN AND NOBODY KNEW ABOUT

           IT UNTIL ABOUT 1995. AND THE ADMINISTRATION, THE PRESIDENT AND
           THE ADMINISTRATION FOUND OUT ABOUT IT AND THEY WITHHELD THAT
           FROM CONGRESS. FOR QUITE A NUMBER OF YEARS. NOT MONTHS BUT
           YEARS. AND SO SENATOR WARNER'S COMMITTEE, WE STARTED HAVING
           SOME HEARINGS TO FIND OUT WHAT THE -- WHAT THE TRUTH WAS.
           SOMETIMES I WOULD REMEMBER THAT WINSTON CHURCHILL SAID, TRUTH
           IS INCONTROVERTIBLE. IGNORANCE MAY DERIDE IT, MALICE MAY
           DESTROY IT BUT THERE IT IS. ULTIMATELY YOU GET TO THAT TRUTH,

           AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO GET TO. AND SO WE HAD PEOPLE
           TESTIFYING IN NOTRA TRULOCK, WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF THE
           INTELLIGENCE FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, HE SAID THAT HE --
           IT BECAME VERY SERIOUS A YEAR AGO, HE SAID, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE
           TO TELL CONGRESS ABOUT THIS. AND SO HE WANTED TO COME. HE HAD
           TO GO TO HIS SUPERIOR, WHO WAS THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF THE
           DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, BETSY MOTHERLY. AND SHE SAID, NO, YOU

           CAN'T DO THAT. YOU CAN'T DO THAT BECAUSE IT MIGHT BE
           DETRIMENTAL TO THE PRESIDENT'S CHINA POLICY. NOW, HERE WE'RE
           TALKING ABOUT THE THEFT OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT NUCLEAR DEVICE
           IN OUR ARSENAL, THE WA-8 WARHEAD. TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT
           IT IS, MADAM PRESIDENT. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS THE
           EXPLOSIVE POWER, TEN TIMES THE EXPLOSIVE POWER OF THE BOMB THAT
           WAS DROPPED ON HIROSHIMA. IT'S A FRACTION OF THE SIZE. AND THE
           CHINESE ACTUALLY HAD MISSILES THAT WERE AIMED AT US AT THAT
           TIME, AT THE TIME THE PRESIDENT WAS RUNNING AROUND THE COUNTRY
           133 TIMES SAYING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE NUCLEAR AGE THERE'S

           NOT ONE MISSILE AIMED AT AMERICAN CHILDREN, WHEN, IN FACT, WE
           HAD SOME 28 CITIES THAT WERE BEING TARGETED AT THAT TIME. AND
           HE SIGNED THE WAIVER TO ALLOW THE CHINESE TO HAVE A GUIDANCE
           TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE THOSE MISSILES MORE ACCURATE, AND HE HAD
           KNOWLEDGE OF THE FACT THAT THEY HAD NOW THE WARHEAD, THE WA-8
           WARHEAD, THAT COULD BE FITTED ON ONE OF THESE. AND AS A MATTER
           OF FACT, MORE THAN ONE COULD BE FITTED ON ONE OF THEIR
           MULTIPLE-STAGE ROCKETS. AND I SAY THERE'S A CONNECTION. THERE'S
           ALWAYS TALK ABOUT THE PRESIDENT EVERY TIME HE GETS IN TROUBLE,

           SOMETHING BIG HAPPENS, LIKE SENDING CRUISE MISSILES INTO SUDAN
           OR AFGHANISTAN OR IRAQ. IN THIS CASE, WE STARTED A WAR. BUT I
           WILL SAY THIS -- I DON'T WANT TO DWELL ON THIS BECAUSE THAT'S
           NOT THE SUBJECT AT HAND TODAY. I SEE A CONNECTION. I BELIEVE
           THERE IS A CONNECTION CONNECTION. I THINK WE MAY VERY WELL HAVE
           A "WAG THE DOG" SITUATION HERE. I THINK EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT I'M
           TALKING ABOUT. THEY DON'T SAY IT BUT THEY KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING
           ABOUT. BUT WE -- WE -- I DID ASK IN THE -- IN THE COMMITTEE

           MEETING FOR -- SINCE WE HAD TWO DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED
           TESTIMONIES COMING FROM MR. TRU TRULOCK AND MISS MOLAR IF THEY
           WOULD SUBMIT TO A LIE DETECTOR TEST. MR. TRULOCK IMMEDIATELY
           SAID HE WOULD, AND MISS MOLAR VACILLATED AND THEN IN RESPONSE
           TO A LETTER, I FOUND THAT HE'S WILLING TO DO IT AND SHE'S NOT.
           SO I THINK I KNOW WHO'S TELLING THE TRUTH. NONETHELESS, WE'RE
           GOING TO HAVE TO ADDRESS THAT IN A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT WAY.
           NOW, WE HAVE RENDER SINCE THAT, BY THE WAY, THAT IN THE
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