[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 140 (Friday, September 30, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 30, 1994]
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                      WHY ARE OUR TROOPS IN HAITI?

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, why are our troops in Haiti?
  You know, I was watching television this morning, and I saw all that 
rioting and civil disorder and looting. There is anarchy down there.
  Why are our troops in Haiti? The President says it is to restore 
democracy, and yet U.N. Haiti Representative Dante Caputo said in a 
memo last May or June that this administration planned to send our 
troops down there before November for political purposes, to help 
bolster the President's image and his party's image so they could pick 
up seats in the November elections.
  Now, as the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Smith] said just a few 
moments ago, he questioned the Deputy Secretary of State about this who 
made these comments, and he said he did not say them.
  Now, if he did say them, as Mr. Caputo said he did, then he is lying 
to the Congress, and if he is lying to the Congress, he should be 
summarily removed. Strobe Talbott should be fired or resign.
  And if the President of the United States, and I hate to say this, 
but if the President of the United States can be proven that he put our 
troops in harm's way for political purposes this year, he should be 
impeached.

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