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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, everyone here is talking about the Iraqi crisis. There is no Iraqi crisis, but an extremely serious international crisis deliberately created by the Bush administration. It is not the dictator Saddam Hussein who is the warmonger. The warmonger is Bush, the democrat. Iraqi aircraft carriers are not manoeuvring along the coasts of New England, nor are Iraqi marines taking up position in Mexico, Canada or Cuba. It is the Anglo-American armada that is reviving gunboat diplomacy in the Middle East.
Why was the alleged need to disarm Iraq not brought to light before the election of Bush junior? Nobody honestly believes that Iraq, a small country with twenty million inhabitants, surrounded by hostile or suspicious countries, whose army and economic infrastructures were levelled by Desert Storm, whose people have been ruined by ten years of Anglo-American bombing and by an embargo which has killed, amongst others, over a million children who have died from poverty and hunger; nobody believes that this small country, monitored by satellites and by spy planes, by the UN inspectors, could have assembled an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and threaten world peace. Furthermore, this is the gist of the report by one of the main UN inspectors, amongst others.
Was Saddam Hussein not already a dictator when he received weapons of all kinds from the United States, Europe, France, and even Jacques Chirac? I am thinking of the nuclear reactor at Osirak which was destroyed by the Israelis in an aerial attack during peacetime. Please, let us not be hypocritical! Let us stop acting out humanitarian indignation. The United States, whose oil stocks will be used up in ten years’ time and which consumes one quarter of the 3.5 billion tonnes used by the planet, and which, furthermore, cannot allow the price per barrel to exceed USD 30, wants to make war to take Iraqi oil and control oil in the Gulf. It is the American giant, the super-power with 80% of the weapons of mass destruction in the world, and, amongst others, 8000 nuclear warheads, terrifying weapons, which, moreover, it is the only country in the history of the world to have used, that wants to make war.
Mr Solana wants to disarm Iraq and hunt down the dictators of the world. The latter point constitutes a huge programme which would oblige the United States to attack many of its allies. With regard to the fight against international terrorism and pursuing it in the places in which it prospers, the Americans could start by bombing London, which is the main place where this type of thing goes on. Deep in your conscience, you think that the Americans are also working on behalf of Europe, and that is why, eyes lowered, you will allow them to commit the first great crime against humanity of the twenty-first century. You have waited thirty years to discover that Saddam Hussein used poison gas against the Kurds. Well, there was a precursor: in 1920, in Kurdistan, in the form of Winston Churchill! In terms of mass destruction, do you think that the powers in question have never used them and can therefore preach to the world about international morals?"@en1
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