(Mr. PAUL asked and was given permission
to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
1999 Ron Paul 39:1 Mr. PAUL.
Mr. Speaker, how many
innocent civilians must die before we
stop bombing Serbia? We rightfully
cherish the lives of our three servicemen
and rejoice in their return, but
how many Serbs will never rejoice because
of all the death and destruction
we have rained down upon them by casually
dismissing as necessary mistakes
of war a war that is not real to us yet
only too real to those who are needlessly
killed.
1999 Ron Paul 39:2 Serb victims are people, too, who
love their families and hate the war,
yet become the victims of this ill-conceived
policy of NATO aggression. It is
a strange argument, indeed, that the
capture of our three soldiers was illegal
and yet our bombing of civilians is not.
Violence, when not in one’s own self-defense,
can never be justified, no matter
how noble the explanation. It only
makes things worse.
1999 Ron Paul 39:3 The goal of peace and harmony can
never be achieved by bombs and intimidation.
That goal can only be achieved
by honest friendship and trade when
permissible and neutrality when armed
conflict prevents it. We must not fund
this senseless bombing.
