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"Mr President, this unhappy debate takes note of the oh-so-predictable humanitarian disaster which has afflicted the people of Iraq since the coalition invaded illegally. It also demonstrates the double standards of our own Member State governments, particularly, I am afraid, my own in London, rather than Edinburgh, where I would rather it were.
Chancellor Gordon Brown was asked how much funding was to be allocated to the military action and his answer was ‘as much as it takes’. I am afraid the financial allocation to the humanitarian support measures is shameful.
As we have heard, the United Nations estimates that 1.8 million people have been forcibly displaced within Iraq and 2 million have fled that unhappy country. That is more than the population of a number of our Member States.
Prime Minister Blair worries about international terrorism – he talks about it often enough. Well he might! The direct result of his policies has created the best possible recruiting ground al-Qa’ida could ever have asked for.
So, what to do? As we, of course, go through airport security this evening flying home from this place, let us think that that is Prime Minister Blair’s legacy to Europe and to global politics. We, as we have heard, can do better: by sticking to our principles and by digging deep into our budgets.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Red Cross efforts are severely underfunded. The countries neighbouring Iraq are in desperate straits and in dire need of support. This motion has a number of points in it which I commend to the House.
We did not create this disaster, but we are in a position to ameliorate its effects. By doing so, I hope we can lead by example where so many of our Member State governments have so comprehensively failed."@en1
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