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"Mr President, a new resolution on Iraq cannot be more conciliatory than the resolution we adopted by a large majority a few weeks ago. That resolution was and still is in keeping both with the real problems in the world and the feelings and reactions of the citizens in our countries who, in their reactions to this illegal, immoral, pre-emptive and therefore subjugating war, expressed themselves as European citizens, and formulated the only serious and reliable basis on which we can continue to build Europe.
Many of us here are concerned about the future of the world and of Europe. However, there are others here whose sole concern is to justify their governments, to sanction after the event decisions which will cause the modern world system and the international community – surely a misnomer now – to disappear. The Te Deum for the demise of the UN offered up in all sincerity by Mr Pearl doubtless also applied to the marginalisation of the European Union, both old and new, whatever some of the candidate countries may think.
This humiliation will continue if we somehow sanction the invasion of Iraq after the event. There is no doubt as to who will gain the upper hand militarily and technologically: the invaders. But why should we turn their technical supremacy into political victory by feeling compelled to condone the war once it is over? The only thing we have a historical duty to do is to prepare our contribution to a more balance world, insofar as this is still possible; to make a quantum leap, as quickly as possible, on the road towards political unification, especially in the field of foreign policy and defence. Those of us who have no intention of letting Europe and the world change into a sort of Jurassic Park must move forward. Those here who are willing to achieve more must unravel the contradictions into which their selfish, divisive choices are forcing them on their own.
A great British playwright, Harold Pinter said – and some members would do well to remember this – that unless Europe finds the solidarity, intelligence, courage and will to challenge and resist US power Europe itself will deserve Alexander Herzen's definition: ‘We are not the doctors. We are the disease’."@en1
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