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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-09-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Afghanistan2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020904.2.3-064"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-04-Speech-3-0652
lpv:speaker	lp:Paul Marie Coûteaux2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Rassemblement pour la France (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EDD (2001-12-11--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, it is difficult to speak in this House which barely resembles a genuine Parliament. What we can say about the situation in Afghanistan is a mere extension of what we were saying earlier about Iraq. In both cases, we are witnessing the unleashing of an empire, which is using every possible excuse to inflict on a nation – and, there is no doubt, via this nation, on the whole world – a display of its military capability. In Afghanistan, the excuse is not plausible. One does not destroy a whole country because a terrorist is hiding there. As Mr Gollnisch said earlier, we will have to bomb London until the British Government extradite to France Rachid Ramda who masterminded several terrorist attacks that were carried out on the Paris underground in 1995. Although he spoke in an ironic manner, Mr Gollnisch has simply made a logical point. Due to the fact, ladies and gentlemen, that the empire and its propaganda are so deeply engrained in our minds, we are losing sight of the most basic logic and even the most basic common sense. Who, if not the empire, is flouting the law, and as I said earlier in relation to Iraq, the UN Charter, to which we are all bound, in the war that it unilaterally decided to enter into, first in Kosovo, then in Afghanistan and now in Iraq? Who if not Washington is guilty of war crimes, which I, like Mr Wurtz, would like Mr Haarder to speak to us about this afternoon. And who, if not Washington, is using weapons of mass destruction in Kosovo, in Afghanistan and in Iraq, as proven by the numbers of deformed children being born in these countries as well as the condition of many American soldiers themselves? The American people are themselves victims of the unleashing of the empire. Open your eyes, ladies and gentlemen. The great warlord is no longer Saddam Hussein – it is George W. Bush. The Hitler of today cannot be said to be the remote, sectarian ‘hashassins’ it is Bush and the pathetic, militaristic gang with their aspirations to dominate the world. They should know that although they will not find wretched Europe standing in their way – Europe which is so divided now and becoming increasingly divided – they will at least hear the voice of the freedom of the Nations, and above all, the voice of France."@en1

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