[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 188 (Tuesday, November 28, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H13668]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     LISTEN TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

  (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, we spent $2 billion going on $3 
billion in Haiti, and it is a mess.
  We tried to do nation building in Somalia. We lost 18 young 
Americans, and we left Somalia, and the dictators, the warlords that 
were in charge, are still in charge over there. We spent hundreds of 
millions of dollars, and nothing was accomplished.
  That foreign policy led to disaster. Now the President that got us 
into those two messes is going to send 20,000 to 30,000 young Americans 
into Sarajevo, into Bosnia. There are 60,000 people around Bosnia, 
Bosnian Serbs that say they are not going to abide by the treaty. Some 
of them said, ``You saw Americans dragged through the streets of 
Somalia dead and naked. You are going to see the same things around 
Sarajevo.'' They are telling us what is going to happen.
  There are 6 million land mines over there. We only know where 100,000 
to 500,000 of them are, 6 million land mines.
  This is a recipe for disaster.
  We saw a terrible tragedy occur in Beirut when I first came to 
Congress. We saw 240-some marines blown to smithereens. The same thing 
may very well happen in Bosnia.
  The President is making a monumental mistake. I do not think the 
American people want this to happen. I know they do not, and the 
President should listen to them.

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