[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 69 (Thursday, May 16, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H5188]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   STOP DRUG PRODUCTION AT ITS SOURCE

  (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, one of the major issues facing 
America today is drugs and crime that is caused by drugs. They say 
there is a war against drugs, but we really do not have a war against 
drugs, and if we do, we are losing it.
  If we really wanted to deal with the drug problem, we would attack it 
not only here in our country and at the borders but at its source. In 
Peru and Bolivia, 90 percent of the world's coca is produced. Ninety 
percent, we know exactly where it is grown. We could take U.S. 
airplanes and use environmentally safe herbicides and fly over the 
fields and drop them, and within 1 to 2 weeks knock out 90 percent of 
the world's coca and crack. And yet we do not do it.
  So today, Mr. Speaker, I would like to say to everybody in the House 
and administration, if we really want to have a war on drugs, let us 
attack it. Let us really win the war on drugs. Let us go to Peru and 
Bolivia and eradicate the drugs at its source. It will never get to our 
kids, it will not cause crime in America, and it will solve a big 
problem.

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