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"Mr President, it is absolutely unacceptable that more than 600 people, including children, have been held for two years in Guantanamo Bay without charge or trial, in circumstances which no democratic state could legitimately stand over. It is a recipe for feeding hatred, not for coming to terms with the awfulness of terrorism.
This is a debate about defending democracy and the rule of law, and an appeal to the good sense and the democratic instincts of the American people in circumstances where good sense and democratic instincts are all important. It is right and proper to condemn and continue to condemn the atrocity of 11 September 2001 and all other atrocities engineered by terrorists, whether in the United States or in Europe, in Spain, Ireland or indeed in Israel or the Palestinian territories.
Terrorism deliberately sets out to destroy freedom: its purpose is to destroy freedom. If we attempt to undermine the terrorists by using means which themselves destroy freedom, we undermine the very foundations of our own society. If we go down the route of denying basic human rights and basic democratic rights to those we suspect of terror, then we are giving them a victory and we are shaping a society which in the long run will not be in the best interests of the people of this world who want to live in a sustainable peace. I would appeal to the Irish presidency to put this matter on the agenda of the EU-US summit in June this year."@en1
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