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



                         SAVING FACE IN HAITI?

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute, and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, ever since the Clinton administration's 
Haiti deal, we have been hearing about how important it was to allow 
Haiti's military rulers to save face.
  America has a much lower opinion of what part of the anatomy the 
Clinton administration was trying to save down in Haiti.
  Whatever was accomplished in last minute discussions it does not put 
an end to the basic questions.
  Now that there is no invasion, not even a rag-tag army to defeat, 
what exactly is the military's mission down there?
  How long will they have to do it? Not in the vague diplomacy-speak of 
nation-building or democracy-restoring but in the real world, everyday 
language of days, weeks, months, and years.
  Who will pay for whatever it is they are doing and however long they 
will be doing it? Will an already slashed military budget have to pick 
up these costs too? At the same time shaving off a little more of 
America's own security?
  In the White House the celebrations have begun; it is now time the 
answers came.

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