[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 127 (Tuesday, September 13, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 13, 1994]
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                  NO ONE AGREES WITH CLINTON ON HAITI

  (Mr. DeLAY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. DeLAY. Mr. Speaker, yesterday's Washington Post summed up the 
doubts of the Nation about the President's policy on Haiti.
  It said:

       As President Clinton presses ahead with plans to invade 
     Haiti, it is not clear that such action is in the U.S. 
     national interest or that Clinton can overcome potentially 
     strong opposition from Congress and the U.S. public opinion 
     foreign policy experts say ***

  The Post went on:

       The experts say that if Clinton flinches from his 
     unequivocal, public threats to use force, he would be 
     regarded as a laughing- stock in foreign ministries around 
     the world. His only hope of avoiding such humiliation, 
     without invading, would be if Haiti's military rulers heed 
     U.S. calls to surrender power and leave the Caribbean island 
     republic.

  How many times have we heard this plea that America must swallow a 
bad policy in order to salvage this President?
  Somewhere this administration has gotten it backward. It is the 
President's job to serve the people, not the people's job to serve the 
President.
  America's foreign policy should be about protecting America's 
interests, not protecting the President from being a laughingstock, or 
being humiliated as the Washington Post said.
  Mr. Speaker, we need a vote on Haiti. We need to let the American 
people speak through their representatives.

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