[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 140 (Friday, September 30, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 30, 1994]
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                  REQUEST FOR ACCOUNTABILITY ON HAITI

  (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, I would like to associate myself with the 
remarks of the gentleman from Mississippi who just made such, I think, 
a telling comment.
  I stood in this well last evening and talked to reports received by 
phone yesterday of the chaos in Haiti; pictures say so much more than 
words can.
  Today we see on the TV news this morning the chaos. It is a sense out 
of control. We did not see the whole picture, because they did not have 
the TV cameras everywhere. They were not up on the north coast where 
pro-Aristide people, the Lavalas, were killing their opponents. So in 
Port-au-Prince we have one group killing one side, and on the north 
coast we have the other group killing the other side.
  This is called a civil war, and it is not our civil war, and this 
12th day of occupation, the smartest thing we can to is start getting 
our troops out of harm's way right now.
  The next thing we have to do, once we get the troops out of the way, 
is go through our constitutionally required exercise of congressional 
oversight of what this has been about. There is going to have to be 
accountability.
  Why has the Clinton administration been less than candid and 
straightforward with the U.S. Congress on how we got there, what we are 
doing, and what is going on? That accountability will come.

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