I am also pleased to appear with Director George Tenet, whose service to America I have admired for years.
War is a painful subject.
War is about the intentional destruction of things in order to impose a change of policy of an enemy. We intended to bring destruction to the infrastructure of violence and coercion inside Yugoslavia in order to force the government of Yugoslavia to suspend its genocide against the citizens of Kosovo. We never intended to destroy anything that was not tied to Yugoslavia's war effort. Unfortunately, but not uncommon in the conduct of hostilities, we made mistakes. Director Tenet has testified before you earlier, and has restated today, that the mistake that led to the unintended bombing of the Chinese Embassy was an intelligence error.