[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 127 (Tuesday, September 13, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 13, 1994]
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                   DO NOT INVADE HAITI, MR. PRESIDENT

  (Mr. DOOLITTLE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. Speaker, President Clinton, who could not find a 
single reason to take up arms against North Vietnam, has apparently 
decided that American blood and fortune are needed to shoo General 
Cedras from his palace in Port-au-Prince.
  For which cause will American servicemen and women risk their lives? 
To restore democracy? Hardly. Ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide 
is no friend of freedom and is no friend of the United States.
  Columnist Charles Krauthammer writes: ``It is a curious American 
policy that seeks to advance American interests at the risk of American 
lives by installing an anti-American demagogue.'' That is not only a 
curious policy, Mr. Speaker, it is a rotten policy.
  Mr. Speaker, I know the President is hungry for a foreign policy 
success, but invading the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere 
where the United States has no national interest is not the right way 
to save face, and is not in the best interests of this country.

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