FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
October, 1999
CLINTON'S SERBIA POLICY 'IMMORAL' BUCHANAN CHARGES
Vienna, VA — Today,
Presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan released the following statement:
"Bill Clinton has stopped bombing Serbia, but his policies continue to kill innocent Serbs. The administration, reports the New York Times, is now obstructing a European Union plan to build a new bridge over the Danube and clear from the river's bed the debris of bridges wrecked by NATO bombs. The wreckage and unexploded ordinance have made the river -- a vital artery of commerce in Europe's poorest region -- impossible to navigate. The assistance Clinton refuses to give is considered crucial for the safe clearing of the unexploded bombs.
"Clinton also objects to a European program to ship heating oil to two Serbian cities controlled by the Yugoslav opposition. Washington frets that Yugoslav dictator Slobodan Milosevic will somehow benefit.
"These anti-Serb policies -elements of a cruel campaign to starve and freeze the people of Serbia until they overthrow Milosevic-are unjust, immoral, and have no proven record of political success. But the weight of sanctions, as always, will fall most heavily on the old and sick and on Serb children.
"France and Germany are now leading the effort to aid Yugoslavia's beleagured population and reconstruct the Balkan economies shattered by the war. In the spirit of reconciliation, the United States should join with them and lift all other purely economic sanctions against Serbia. As the dust settles after Clinton's War, it grows more and more apparent that NATO's justifications for the war don't hold up. By continuing to sicken and starve innocent Serbs, Clinton is compounding a grievous wrong. His policies can only engender an enduring hatred towards the United States."
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