[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 172 (Thursday, November 2, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H11690-H11691]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             UNITED STATES COURTING INTERNATIONAL DISASTER

  (Mr. MICA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, the United States under the misguided 
leadership of President Clinton, is courting another international 
disaster. President Clinton did not learn in Somalia, where he turned a 
humanitarian mission into a bungled fiasco, costing dozens of lives and 
billions of dollars.
  President Clinton did not listen when he sailed into Port-au-Prince 
Harbor and then retreated, leaving us with hundreds of Haitian 
opponents dead and a costly legacy for which the American taxpayer is 
still paying billions.
  President Clinton did not hear the pleas for a Pan African force to 
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and preempt a slaughter in Rwanda, where nearly 1 million died, and now 
we are still paying the United Nations billions.
  President Clinton did not support the lifting of an arms embargo to 
allow Bosnians to defend themselves, and thousands died, and now we are 
paying the United Nations and NATO billions.
  President Clinton still did not get the message when 315 Members of 
this Congress said we do not want 20,000 American troops in Bosnia, we 
do not want Americans killed and held hostage, we do not want our 
military under the U.N. command, and we do not want to spend billions 
on another fiasco.

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