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"I wonder when it will be our turn, when B52s or lethal cyber war weapons will attack our buildings, or maybe those in France, perhaps with the support of Great Britain and others. A paradox? No. We can expect even this from the fundamentalist culture of Bush’s council. I have seen an Iraqi baby’s lacerated head, lacerated by the weapons of those who call themselves liberators. Those bodies and images are no different from those of the Kurdish baby girl poisoned by Saddam’s chemical weapons, the little Palestinian boy slaughtered by the Israeli army, the little Israeli girl killed by a suicide bomber or the bodies of the Twin Towers victims.
With this war, the masks have come off. The USA is not complying with international law: consider Kyoto, the International Criminal Court, the death penalty, star wars, the use of weapons of mass destruction. United States militarism is a danger to the international community; a policy of domination and death is a
between terrorism and this policy. However, it is also from the United States, from its people, that hope and an alternative are emerging: huge groups are saying ‘no’ to the war, ‘no’ to terrorism, ‘no’ to revenge, as they are all over the world. What can and should we do? How can we make the countries waging this war of aggression comply with the agreement ratified in the United Nations after the Second World War? Europe cannot simply say: we will take care of the reconstruction. Our efforts should be channelled into stopping an unlawful war. The present, Mr Simitis, is the past and also the future. This is why we must prevent Iraqi, British and American citizens dying. We say that the UN should be the organisation to act: and so let us convene the Security Council and the United Nations Assembly. Europe must be united, of course, but it must be united in saying ‘no’ and in ending this war. Rabiya, a young Iraqi girl, told me with great intensity: ‘You are killing our dreams too; you are killing our dream that we can free ourselves from Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship’."@en1
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