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"Mr President, despite the errors, the culpability and the geopolitical inconsistency of the US policy, Europe must not lose its capacity for farsightedness or fail to realise the severity of the threat posed to us by Baghdad. Have we forgotten September 11 already? European foreign policy, if there is such a thing, cannot be reduced to the fine, ineffective action of narrow-minded pacifists, who have never genuinely condemned Saddam Hussein or the use of weapons of mass destruction in their demonstrations. Even today, we have heard honeyed words spoken to the Arab world. I ask you: have you seen or heard Arab television? It proclaims loud and clear what the crowds of Arabs, including the immigrants living in our cities, want to hear. Yet when Saddam Hussein draws the menacing sword of Islam and proclaims
it is we Europeans who will be his direct, closest target. May God prevent a disaster in London, Milan or Brussels such as that caused by Arab fanaticism on September 11 in Manhattan. May God protect young Europe and the young Europeans who, I am afraid, will be fighting in the front line or, like our fine Alpine troops, working for peace in Afghanistan."@en1
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