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Kendrick Meek: “They say they came from the Dominican Republic. Also, there was a question about the U.S. selling arms to the Dominican…”

On the recordMarch 3, 2004
They say they came from the Dominican Republic. Also, there was a question about the U.S. selling arms to the Dominican Republic, some of those same arms that ended up in Haiti. So I am not a man with conspiracy theory here. And take it from my good friend, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel), this is not the Kendrick Meek Report. This is factual. So we have a lot to be worried about. And like I am saying to Americans, what this administration is doing as it relates to putting our armed services and making the job harder, we could have had peacekeeping troops in there. We could have stopped the violence, and we could have come up with a peaceful solution.
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Kendrick Meek
Florida
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing U.S. arms sales and the situation in Haiti during a floor speech.

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