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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there are free, or nearly free, elections and others that are not, such as the forthcoming elections in Iraq. Once again, the European Union is pandering to the interests of the United States, as well as funding ill-advised operations to interfere in another country’s affairs.
In the same way that attempts are being made to impose a European constitution on taxpayers without their having a say, funds are being siphoned off to maintain the shameful, pointless occupation of Iraq. The European Union is sailing blind through the stormy seas of this occupation, while the hulking flagship of the allied invaders is sinking and taking with it those countries in the Union that have not been able to remain independent of the heinous geopolitics of the United States.
The overwhelming majority of Iraqis, who see the occupying forces as the reason for the fall in living standards since the downfall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, will not take part in sham elections which the official propaganda, with media complicity, depicts as a crucial opportunity for a transition to democracy. The intention is to pass off the US attempt to survive their obvious attrition, at least politically, as significant elections that will lay the foundations for the new Iraqi State.
It is a disgrace to commit human resources to supporting and thus politically validating the elections in Iraq. We will be legitimising a puppet administration and passing it off as a democracy, thus continuing our complicity with the invasion of Iraq, the grounds for which have been shown to be utterly false. The invasion has been followed not just by brutality but also by countless verified episodes of corruption, waste, inflated accounting and fraud, to the detriment of the administration itself.
All this is more than enough for me to call on Parliament, on behalf of all Europeans, to dissociate itself from any legitimisation of the elections in Iraq, thus sparing us all the dishonour of being politically and morally complicit in that colossal political and media fraud."@en1
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