[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 20 (Tuesday, February 24, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H531]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               U.S. POLICY UNDERMINES HAITIAN GOVERNMENT

  (Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, as a Member elected from 
Florida, I have always supported the citizens of Haiti, and I was one 
of the ones that went and witnessed the fair election of Mr. Aristide.
  Let me just say that it was just as fair as the election that took 
place in Florida. But sadly, even though Haiti is right off the shores 
of Florida, this administration has treated Haitians and the Haitian 
people like unwanted stepchildren.
  Right now in Haiti, people are starving to death and being 
slaughtered in the streets, and the U.S. is nowhere to be found. U.S. 
policy has undermined the Government of Haiti. Let me say again, the 
U.S. policy has undermined the duly-elected Government of Haiti and 
continues today to threaten the very lives of the Haitian people.
  I ask this President, how can he justify our attack of Iraq by 
claiming we are building a democracy while he sits idly by and watches 
a democracy in Haiti being destroyed by thugs whose only goal is to 
steal power from a duly-elected President?
  Shame on you, Mr. President.

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