Lieberman leads delegation of U.S. lawmakers visiting Kosovo (AP)

[Eugene]

Lieberman leads delegation of U.S. lawmakers visiting Kosovo
By GARENTINA KRAJA
Associated Press Writer

February 9, 2007, 11:52 AM EST

PRISTINA, Serbia -- Eight U.S senators and representatives visited Kosovo on Friday amid
regional tensions over a U.N. plan that could give the Serbian province supervised statehood.

The delegation, led by independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, included Republican
senators John McCain, Jon Kyl, Lindsey Graham and Johnny Isakson, together with Congressmen
Howard Berman, Mark Udall and Dave Reichert.

They were in Kosovo on a brief, fact-finding mission, and met with Kosovo's Prime Minister Agim
Ceku, said Lawrence Corwin, a spokesman for the U.S. office in the province. The lawmakers also
visited a 14-century Serbian Orthodox monastery of Gracanica.

Last week, U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari unveiled a proposal for the future status of Kosovo,
which envisages that the majority ethnic Albanian province be granted internationally supervised
self-rule with the trappings of statehood. The proposal also offers a high degree of self-rule
to the Serb minority living in isolated enclaves in the province.

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Full article: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--kosovo-us0209feb09,0,6850462.story

[Tin Man]

1. A transparent attempt to support Iraq War, using Kosovo as a model

"See? It worked in Kosovo! If we just stay the course in Iraq, eventually things will improve. And remember, Clinton lead us into Kosovo - so you Democrats that're bitching night-and-day about Iraq, need to shut up and give it more time" *

* the unspoken thoughts of QuidProJoe, Feb 2007

[wellstone dem]

2. Then they should all support electing Wes Clark

who led the kosovo effort