Ken Bacon Quotations | Page 2

The U.N. is sending a team that's supposed to arrive tomorrow (Wednesday), to evaluate the situation and then return to New York, I believe, on Friday to report their findings. And depending on what they report, then the U.N. will decide what to do next.

It's too early to speculate on that. The Navy will do whatever is necessary to help the NTSB get the information it needs to conduct a thorough investigation.

If you look at our deployments today, under 5,000 people in Bosnia and about 5,000 people, under 6,000 people in Kosovo, it adds up to about 11,000 people, 10,000 or 11,000 people deployed in the Balkans out of an Army that's, what, 480,000, 485,000 people. It's a relatively small percentage

In the last four years, the (U.S.) military has fought one of the most successful air wars in history

We have not degraded it to that point. But we're only in the second day.

It will be much easier to attack them.

He has not been able to rebuild his military, in part because of our containment, but also in large part because of the United Nations' embargo on Iraq, which has prevented him from buying the military equipment he would like to buy.

There were reports on Radio Free Europe that water hoses were used against women and children who were protesting the fact that their husbands or fathers, loved ones, were being killed in Kosovo,

There is now a clear minimum flight ceiling of 2,000 feet,

The reports did not provide enough specificity to allow any skipper or military commander to make a decision to change behavior based on these reports.