[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 96 (Thursday, July 21, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 21, 1994]
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       THREATENED INVASION OF HAITI MAY BE POLITICALLY MOTIVATED

  (Mr. DORNAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, a year ago today, in the White House office 
of Vince Foster, obstruction of justice was taking place. Access to 
Foster's office was denied to FBI, Park Police investigators, and even 
Justice Department lawyers while Foster's desk and files were rifled 
for anything politically embarrassing. One investigator familiar with 
the investigation was quoted as saying, ``I thought they all should 
have been arrested for obstruction of justice.'' And I find it 
absolutely astounding that politics would be driving stories, in 
conservative and liberal newspapers, that we may invade Haiti because 
the President needs something to bring up his poll numbers.
  There have been massacres in Haiti. Just recently 12 young men were 
slaughtered. But just a few miles to the west, closer to the United 
States on the Island of Cuba and in the waters surrounding it, 
massacres have continued for 35 years. Within the month, just a few 
weeks ago, a tugboat was appropriated by some freedom-loving Cubans. 
When it passed the 7-mile limit, it was surrounded by Castro's more 
modern military boats, and with high-powered hoses they blew women and 
children off the tug to drown in the waters. Then they circled it, 
creating a maelstrom, and only 30 out of 75 men, women, and children 
survived.
  Mr. Speaker, that is a massacre. If this President is looking for a 
country to invade, let it be Cuba, not Haiti. Cuba is the more morally 
compelling case.

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