VP Debate - Darfur: Will Americans support sending troops...

http://www.c-spanarchives.org/... BIDEN: Well, I think the American public has a stomach forsuccess. And my recommendations on Bosnia -- I admit I was the firstone to recommend it. They saved tens of thousands of lives. Andinitially John McCain opposed it, along with a lot of other people.But the end result was it worked.And look what we did in Bosnia. We took Serbs, Croats andBosniaks, being told by everyone -- I was told by everyone that thiswould mean that -- they've been fighting and killing each other for athousand years, it could never work. There's a relatively stablegovernment there now, as there is in Kosovo.With regard to Iraq, I indicated that it would be a mistake to gointo -- I gave the president the power, I voted for the power, becausehe said he needed it not to go to war, but to keep the United States-- the U.N. in line, to keep sanctions on Iraq and not let them belifted. From the -- I, along with Dick Lugar, before we went to war,said if we were to go to war without our allies, without the kind ofsupport we needed, we'd be there for a decade, it would cost us tensof billions of dollars. John McCain said no, it was going to be okay.I don't have a stomach for genocide when it comes to Darfur. Wecan now impose a no-fly zone. It's within our capacity. We can leadNATO, if we're willing to take a hard stand. We can. I've been inthose camps in Chad. I've seen the suffering. Thousands and tens ofthousands of people have died and are dying. We should rally theworld to act, and we should demonstrate it by our own movement toprovide the helicopters to get those 21,000 for

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Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
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