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"Presidents, so nothing has been able to deter the American Government and its British and Spanish accomplices from unleashing a pre-emptive war against Iraq, on the pretext – which everyone knows to be false – that Iraq poses an imminent threat to the United States and even to the whole world. In fact, as Mr Coûteaux has said, the United States has already, since the end of the Gulf war, been undertaking military operations, especially from the air, against Iraqi targets, causing losses to the civilian population, and has done so in peace time.
At the same time, the US is guilty, through having imposed a brutal embargo, of a genuine genocide which, according to the UN itself, has caused the death of more than one million Iraqi children.
The intention, which is today being cynically declared in the first few hours of the conflict, of assassinating Iraq’s political leaders, represents a new stage in the descent into barbarity. From now on the leaders of the coalition can be neither indignant nor astonished when they become the prime targets of terrorist reprisals. This crisis has proved the senselessness of the European Union, torn apart by the opposing positions of its members, and has also proved that with average-sized powers and unable to become a major power, it is possible to create an organisation with no power at all.
Those in our countries who are striving for peace should call, as was done at the time of the Korean War, for an extraordinary session of the United Nations General Assembly to be held. Perhaps the only thing that could be done there is talk, but that will at least be doing something to achieve peace."@en1
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