Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-05-14-Speech-3-029"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-05-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Iraq2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030514.1.3-029"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-05-14-Speech-3-0302
lpv:speaker	lp:Paul Marie Coûteaux2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Rassemblement pour la France (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EDD (2001-12-11--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"So, Mr President, ladies and gentlemen representing the Member States, the opponents of the war were right. The destabilisation, the aggression and the invasion of Iraq caused by the US-UK union – the only union which is at this minute still standing – no more sought to topple the Baath socialist regime than to destroy phantom weapons of mass destruction. Very simply, the aim was the wholesale destruction of Iraq in order to realise the ideological and industrial designs of the small gang of theorists with a portfolio who reign in Washington. They really could not care less about peace in the Middle East or the Iraqi people, who they are deliberately – and I mean deliberately – plunging into anarchy, with its terrible trail of unspeakable violence and suffering. They play with people as one plays with marbles, and that is the way of empires, particularly this US empire. Europe has allowed its creation out of cowardice, by eradicating its only roots, its nations, in particular France, which is the only country to implement an independent global policy, and not because Europe is old but simply because, deprived of national vigour, it is politically dead. It will therefore only be further hypocrisy to speak today in this ludicrous forum of rebuilding Iraq, when what is really on the agenda is destroying Iraq until not a stone remains standing, except, of course, for the derricks. The question is not how to rebuild, but to what extent we will destroy Iraq, humiliate the Arab people and heighten their anger to play into the hands of the ideologists who want at all costs to provoke a general war between civilisations, which will be a war against civilisations, beginning with what is left of our own."@en1

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