[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 127 (Tuesday, September 13, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 13, 1994]
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                           INVASION OF HAITI

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, 73 percent of Americans are 
against invading Haiti. Probably 80 percent of the Congress is against 
invading Haiti. Canada will not participate and neither will any other 
major government in our hemisphere. No European ally has signed on. A 
few hundred Caribbean military will help as peacekeepers after we win 
the fight and probably lose a few Americans by storming those beaches.
  No American citizens are in immediate danger as was the case in 
Grenada. Now, there is not going to be any vote in Congress, at least 
we do not think so right now, and all to put a man of questionable 
sanity in power who sanctions putting a tire around people's necks and 
gasoline in it and burning them to death.
  Now the President has asked for approval of the United Nations but 
not approval of the Congress that represents the people of this 
country.
  Let the American people, Mr. President, be heard; please, do not be 
arrogant where American blood is at stake.

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