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But we couldn’t budge the British and French, who felt lifting the embargo would only prolong the war and endanger the UN forces on the ground that included their troops but not ours. After the diplomatic event, I spoke to Georgetown students and alumni, including many of my old classmates, urging them to support my national service initiative. She had worked hard for years to build our progressive record and to run a tight ethical operation. And I said over and over again that I never asked anyone to lie.

Finally, I put the current events in the context of the wars Milosevic had already waged against Bosnia and Croatia, and the destructive impact of his killing on the future of Europe. This one took the cake. In mid-month we had a new crisis in Iraq, when Saddam expelled six American members of the UN weapons inspection teams. I fought for people to have the right to work but not to have whole communities and people abandoned.