Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-29-Speech-3-063"
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"Mr President, I have a poster in front of me here which says no to war. I am saying no to unilateral war. I am not a pacifist – although I do not suggest that there is anything wrong with being a pacifist – but I am seriously concerned about the impact that a unilateral war against Iraq will have on the future of the world order, and the kind of world we will live in, if we do not, as a Parliament, make our position clear: unless we have international law moderated through the United Nations, we will have no law. We cannot have the most powerful state on this earth, which regards itself as militarily invincible, deciding which target it chooses to attack, which to disarm and how and when it will launch such an attack. That is the road to anarchy; a road which will give no security for any state on the face of this earth – least of all the small state which I represent here in this Parliament.
War is a failure of politics. The United Nations has an opportunity – as is made clear by the inspectors who have reported to it this week – to peacefully disarm Saddam Hussein if they are given enough time and providing Saddam Hussein pro-actively cooperates with them. We are talking about giving time to the inspectors; we are not talking about allowing Saddam Hussein to maintain – assuming he has them – weapons of mass destruction.
I take a dim view of the attempt by Mr Watson, the leader of the Liberal Group, to demean the motives of myself and my colleagues in travelling to Baghdad this weekend to try to persuade whatever authorities we have the opportunity to meet there to cooperate actively with the inspectors and, indeed, to see first-hand the impact which sanctions are having, particularly on the children of Iraq.
Finally, I know that time is up but I wish to make two short points. No link has been made in the inspectors' report to international terrorism. No evidence has been found which establishes that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction – the contrary in fact. We must give the inspectors more time."@en1
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