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"Mr President, the chairman of our group has already covered what I wanted to say. I would point out: first, disgust and condemnation for what happened yesterday in Saudi Arabia – yes, but let us not forget that Commissioner Patten closed his speech when the war started by saying that the situation and developments in Iraq would exacerbate the problem of terrorism – and now we are reaping the fruit of the deeds of the United States and Great Britain, and of this tacit stance on the part of the European Union. Secondly, I feel sorry for the European Parliament. We are living through one of the darkest days of the European Parliament. What shall we say to our citizens during the European elections in a year's time? What did we do doing the war? We did not pass a single decision, a single resolution. What did we do after the war? When we have cholera, when we have dozens dead, when we have the looting of Baghdad museum, when we have the looting of nuclear facilities, we do not pass a decision, we do not pass a resolution, because those who back the war do not want the European Parliament to pass a resolution and stand before European public opinion. Thirdly, a call to the president-in-office: not allied forces, Mr President-in-Office, not allied forces! They are occupying forces. That is what we should call them, because the European Union should not back ."@en1

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