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"Mr President, I have visited Iraq all too often to have any illusions. There is no doubt that the regime in Baghdad is a dictatorship based on terror. At the same time, however, it is obvious that the West’s reactions and sanctions have failed totally, hitting civilians instead of the dictatorship.
There is a light in the darkness, in the autonomous Kurdish areas in the north. The Kurds have no sympathy for Saddam Hussein. They want a new regime. On the other hand, they advise against military intervention as they know they would be the object of Saddam’s revenge. I believe we should listen to them, and consequently we in the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance are resolutely opposed to any large-scale American attack.
I believe that Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne’s report is, unfortunately, particularly characteristic of the type of misguided reaction to the Saddam regime that has helped him to be on the verge of celebrating his 35-year anniversary as Iraq’s true dictator. It is not our intention, here, to adopt a stance towards Baroness Nicholson’s statement or her analysis, but towards the resolution itself. I believe we will also be able to vote for the report following amendments from the Greens, providing, of course, that Article 7 remains as it is in the report and is not deleted as proposed in certain amendments."@en1
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