[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 133 (Wednesday, September 21, 1994)]
[House]
[Page H]
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[Congressional Record: September 21, 1994]



                THE GIANT SUCKING SOUND OF ENTANGLEMENT

  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, we heard about how little American 
troops knew about the parameters of their mission in Haiti, except as 
one soldier from Florida said, ``not to shoot anybody.'' Today, the 
headlines scream: ``U.S. Finds Itself Stuck in the Middle'' with 
reports of mob violence in Port-au-Prince that left two Haitians dead. 
This morning, we hear that the rules of engagement may have to change. 
To what? Will our troops now become active referees in this deadly 
struggle? We are hearing the giant sucking sound of entanglement, and 
still the President does not understand that the quagmire of Haiti's 
internal strife is no place for American troops. With President 
Aristide--the man at the center of this whole operation--refusing to 
endorse the agreement, and the United Nations refusing to lift the 
punishing economic embargo, I fear the violence will only get worse and 
the terms of the contract abrogated. I urge the President not to wait 
for the first American casualty; put a stop to this misguided mission 
now.

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