Over twenty thousand prisoners are reportedly still being housed in an ammunition factory near the town. under Serbian guard. Just last week. Serb paramilitaries in southern Kosovo reportedly forced between 100 and 200 young men from a convoy of refugees heading for the border. took them into a nearby field. made them drop to their knees. and summarily executed them. leaving their bodies there as a warning to their fellow refugees. The catalog of horrors goes on and on. We have witnessed the destabilization of neighboring countries who cannot possibly handle the new masses of humanity heaped on their doorstep. Hundreds of thousands homeless. without shelter and without food. wandering throughout the mountains of Kosovo. frightened and in hiding. Certainly war crime prosecutions await the perpetrators and we cry out for justice to be done. We watch the humanitarian relief efforts underway. by our own government. by our European friends. by the offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. and by countless nongovernmental humanitarian relief organizations and we weep at the abundant good that exists in the world in the face of this unspeakable horror. As I said. legitimate questions remain. and there will undoubtedly be hearings relating to the wisdom and timing of our decision to enter this conflict. But that time is not now. and so long as our military forces are engaged in this mission they deserve our full support.
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