[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 131 (Monday, September 19, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 19, 1994]
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                WHY ARE WE IN HAITI IN THE FIRST PLACE?

  (Mr. ROHRABACHER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, congratulations to this administration 
for developing a strategy that will minimize the initial casualties for 
a military mission, the need for which was caused by this 
administration in the first place.
  What are we doing in Haiti in the first place is what people should 
be asking themselves. We should not be wiping the sweat off of our brow 
saying boy, we are really happy now that the casualties with the 
initial landing will be low. We should still be asking ourselves, why 
are we there? Why are we in Haiti?
  We are there supposedly because we had boat people coming in our 
direction. Those people were coming in our direction because this 
administration isolated Haiti with an embargo that forced these people 
to leave their homeland in the first place. All of this is being done, 
and all of this military might of the United States is being put 
forward, in order to place an anti-American Marxist President back in 
charge of Haiti.
  This is absolutely ridiculous. We should not be sending our troops to 
foreign countries to determine who is and who is not their President. I 
would hope that we can get our troops and the Republicans here as well 
as the Democrats here joined together in this one hope that we can get 
these troops out of Haiti as soon as possible with a minimum number of 
casualties, both civilian and military.

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