Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-29-Speech-3-036"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-01-29"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Iraq2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030129.2.3-036"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-01-29-Speech-3-0372
lpv:speaker	lp:Lucio Manisco2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, may we ask what Mr Solana and Mr Patten are doing to translate into action their professed will to avoid war, beyond reassessing the need to disarm the awful Iraqi regime, beyond formally relying on the Security Council to do so or even trusting Mr Powell to testify as an eye witness that Bin Laden has been bedding with Saddam Hussein? The problem is that the decision to bomb Iraq into a morgue unfit for the dead was taken a long time ago on the Potomac. People all over the world have understood this and are angry and are mobilising against it. It is all very well to say that we must announce the role of the United Nations. But, may I ask, who is demeaning that role and proclaiming every day that, with or without the United Nations, war will be unleashed, probably by 6 March 2003, whatever the Security Council may or may not say? Regarding solid evidence, we do not know for sure if this bloody dictator still has these awful weapons and neither does Dr Blix. What the United States is asking from Saddam Hussein, however, is not to prove his innocence but to provide evidence of his own guilt, that is, to put his own neck in the noose to be hanged or be bombed to smithereens. If this were a criminal case, it would be thrown out of any court in this world. So, to adapt the words of Mr Solana and Mr Patten, there is quite a lot of ambiguity, obfuscation and the undeclared will to follow the warmongering lead of Washington, hoping only that the United Nations will provide the desired fig leaf. This, we must say, probably for the last time, is a defining moment for Europe. This Union must reclaim the moral and rational initiative and, first of all, save itself from some of its leaders."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partito dei Comunisti Italiani (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and Mexico (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Manisco (GUE/NGL )."1

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