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Where is he when we need him? President Clinton's statement TEXT OF THE PRESIDENT'S BRIEFING ON IRAQI AIRSTRIKES.Editor's note: The United States and Britain Wednesday launched "strong, sustained" airstrikes against Bagdhad. The attack comes one day after U.N. weapons inspectors released a stinging report accusing the Iraqis of refusal to cooperate with disarmament efforts and a month after Saddam Hussein's last standoff with the United Nations. Good evening. Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons...

US President Bill Clinton has vowed to continue bombing Yugoslavia unless President Slobodan Milosevic stops the attacks on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. "If President Milosevic will not make peace, we will limit his ability to make war," he said in a nationally televised address. Mr Clinton said the military action had three goals: to demonstrate the seriousness of Nato's opposition to aggression to deter President Milosevic from further attacks on Kosovo Albanians to damage Serbia's capacity to wage war As bombs exploded across Yugoslavia, Mr Clinton told America there was a "moral imperative" to end Serb attacks on Kosovo Albanians....