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dcterms:Date	"2003-03-12"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20030312.1.3-064"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-12-Speech-3-0652
lpv:speaker	lp:David Sumberg2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, this is the second time that I have spoken in a legislative assembly in support of a British Prime Minister contemplating sending British troops into action in Iraq. I did so 12 years ago when the then Conservative Prime Minister, the then Conservative Government, of which Commissioner Patten was a distinguished Member, committed British troops to repel the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. I find myself in the extraordinary position today of supporting a Labour Government, a Labour Prime Minister and a Labour leader of the delegation here in this Parliament in the words that they say and in the actions that they propose. Twelve years ago we stopped at the gates of Baghdad. We did so on a commitment by Saddam Hussein that the weapons of mass destruction would be dismantled. Twelve years later, countless resolutions later, countless promises later, countless inspections later, that commitment has still not been fulfilled. We are where we are today because of that. We have a simple choice: either we believe what Saddam Hussein says and believe that he will still go on to disarm in a voluntary way, or we take the hard, difficult decision to commit the lives of our young men and women to enforce the will of the international community. We may have to do that because, if we do not, we send a message to those who would follow Saddam Hussein that they can get away with it, and we send an even worse message to the great nation of the United States which has stood by this continent in good times and in bad that it is on its own. As Winston Churchill said 60 years ago: 'We are either with the American people, we are part of them, or we are not'. That remains as true today as when it was first said."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause)"1 "Sumberg (PPE-DE )."1

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