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There are risks in it, should we decide to take that action.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Bill Clinton, U-S President\u003cbr/\u003eBut Clinton warned that the dangers of inaction were greater than the dangers of action.\u003cbr/\u003eHe said patient diplomacy had reached a dead end while Serb troops were terrorizing and murdering civilians in Kosovo.\u003cbr/\u003eClinton said that if NATO didn't stand up to Milosevic now, it would be inviting him to commit more atrocities later on.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"But the dangers of acting must be weighed against the dangers of inaction. If we don't do anything, after all the to and fro that's been said here, it will be interpreted by Mr. Milosevic as a license to continue to kill. There will be more massacres, more refugees, more victims, more people crying out for revenge.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Bill Clinton, U-S Clinton\u003cbr/\u003eClinton said the U-S and its NATO allies had tried everything in their power - including a last-ditch negotiating attempt by special envoy Richard Holbrooke - to solve the crisis peacefully.\u003cbr/\u003eBut since Milosevic refused to agree to peace, Clinton said force was the only option left.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"If President Milosevic is not willing to make peace, we are willing to limit his ability to make war on the Kosovars.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Bill Clinton, U-S President\u003cbr/\u003eAfter a Tuesday morning meeting with his national security advisers, Clinton gathered key members of Congress to seek support for the NATO mission.\u003cbr/\u003eSenate leaders then cancelled plans for a vote on a resolution to cut off funds for a mission in Yugoslavia.\u003cbr/\u003eAs they left the meeting, Republican lawmakers said despite earlier reservations, Congress now unanimously supported a mission.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, let me say that there are a number of members of congress, Republicans and Democrats that are very concerned about this policy and not being willing to show a plan that goes all the way to the end, but when you talk about imminent action there will never be any indication from congress, Democrat or Republican that we won't be supporting our troops in any kind of action we have.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Kay  Bailey Hutchison, Texan Senator\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, as you know I haven't been the greatest supporter of this administration over the last six years, but I think the President is on the right track here and I intend to be one of the Republicans in the senate who are going to support the strikes if indeed they are necessary and it is becoming more apparent that they are.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Senator\u003cbr/\u003eNATO has threatened Milosevic with military action if he doesn't agree to a six-nation plan to provide some self-rule to the ethnic Albanians who make up 90 per cent of Kosovo's population.\u003cbr/\u003eAt the U-S State Department on Tuesday, spokesman James Rubin said NATO allies now felt they had little choice but to act.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"The NATO alliance, the European Union, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe are all united that we cannot stand by and let the Serbs crack down again on the Kosovar Albanians when they have shown such reasonableness in agreeing to this peace agreement.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: James Rubin, U-S State Department spokesman\u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile, in a dramatic gesture of opposition, Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov cancelled plans to visit Washington as the crisis intensified. \u003cbr/\u003ePrimakov was over the Atlantic, en route to Washington for a long-scheduled meeting with Vice President Al Gore, when his jetliner was turned around and headed back to Moscow.\u003cbr/\u003eWhite House officials said Kosovo was the reason for Primakov's decision.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"As far as the decision , this was a decision that Prime Minister Primakov made after the Vice President informed him that the efforts of Ambassador Holbrooke had essentially failed and that he would be leaving Belgrade to go to Brussels and eventually to come back home.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Joe Lockhart, White House spokesman\u003cbr/\u003eRussia has long opposed any attack on the Serbs, even while backing a plan for self-rule for Kosovo. \u003cbr/\u003eAnalysts say Primakov may have turned back to avoid appearing to support the attack by being in Washington when NATO attacked the Serbs.\u003cbr/\u003eWashington D-C, U-S-A - 23 March 1999 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Various wide shots of Clinton speaking\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: (English) U-S President Bill Clinton\u003cbr/\u003e3. Cutaways of audience\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) U-S President Bill Clinton\u003cbr/\u003e5. Cutaway\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide shot of Clinton speaking\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) U-S President Bill Clinton\u003cbr/\u003ePool\u003cbr/\u003e8. Senator Hutchison walking towards microphone\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell \u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide shot of State Department briefing\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) James Rubin, U-S State Department spokesman\u003cbr/\u003ePool\u003cbr/\u003e13. Joe Lockhart walks into briefing room\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) White House Spokesman Joe Lockhart\u003cbr/\u003e15. 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