BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: A bit of American history, recent history: 1994 and Operation Uphold Democracy in today's "CNN 20."</s>ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>LINDEN SOLES, CNN ANCHOR: The U.S. House of Representatives has given a thumbs-up to Operation Uphold Democracy. In the past hour, it overwhelmingly approved a resolution supporting the U.S. effort in Haiti.</s>JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN MILITARY AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: This all came to a head when the United States threatened to invade Haiti if Cedras didn't step down. But the U.S. was poised to conduct an invasion when it sent, as a last-ditch effort, former President Jimmy Carter, former Sen. Sam Nunn and former Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Colin Powell to Port-au-Prince to negotiate with Cedras and the figurehead president in Emile Jonnaissant. They were still in the presidential palace negotiating with Cedras when the invasion actually began, and they were able to convince Cedras at the last minute to allow an unopposed landing. So what was going to be an invasion became a peaceful landing the next morning led by Lt. Gen. Hugh Shelton, who went on to become the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. What happened to Cedras was the United States urged Panama to grant Cedras exile, and he went in exile in Panama. And since then, a judge in Haiti has found that he may have committed war crimes during his time and asked for that exile to be waived. But Panama has said that it's an important principle that if you grant somebody exile as a way to resolve a situation peacefully, that you then can't go back and withdraw that protection. So he remains in exile in Panama to this day.
CNN 20: U.S. Invades Haiti, September 19, 1994