[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 90 (Wednesday, July 13, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 13, 1994]
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          BUMBLING FOREIGN POLICY INTENSIFYING HAITIAN CRISIS

  (Mr. MILLER of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.
  Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my dismay 
over the current United States policy toward Haiti. It appears that for 
the first time in U.S. history pure ineptness on the part of the 
administration is being used as the rationale for sending young marines 
into harm's way.
  Last week, the policy du jour approach to foreign policy took on new 
meaning when we literally announced three separate Haiti policies in 3 
days. Our cruel sanctions policy has not worked--in fact it intensified 
the refugee crisis. Our promise to give asylum to Haitians did not 
work--it only sent more Haitians onto those overcrowded, dangerous 
boats. And the American people were forced to suffer the indignity of 
the Panamanian President telling Bill Clinton no Haitians would be 
allowed in Panama. This refugee crisis was created by the pure bumbling 
of Bill Clinton's foreign policy team, and now that crisis is being 
used as a rationale for invasion.
  But before they think that invasion will solve their problems, let us 
remember how the Clinton administration's ineptness led to loss of life 
in Somalia 10 months after the invasion. I do not believe Bill Clinton 
should attempt to solve his public relations problems on the backs of 
U.S. Marines.

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