Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-11-29-Speech-3-119"

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lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to concentrate on Amendment No 1 to the Brok report, which concerns the setting up of an International Tribunal for Saddam Hussain’s reign of terror. There is no lack of reliable information on the nature of the present Iraqi regime. The flood of reports is still growing by the day. Nevertheless, the ‘Republic of Fear’, as Saddam’s reign of terror was appropriately dubbed many years ago, is still greatly underestimated by many western politicians, also within the European Parliament. However, this erroneous assessment could have disastrous consequences, because according to what he says, the Gulf War is far from over in Sadism Hussain's eyes. Hence his relentless efforts to build up an arsenal of extremely sinister weapons of mass destruction. After all, who is there to prevent him from doing so? He has kept UN inspection teams out for quite some time now. Incidentally, this brutal Iraqi autocrat is advocating a massive Arab attack on the State of Israel, indeed worse still, a full-blown Jihad, a Holy War. What, in all fairness, could be more obvious than the need to firmly contain the potential threat posed by Saddam? In point of fact, how do the Council and the Commission view the situation at the present time? One would appear to be justified in fearing that there is no question of our establishing a European CFSP to deal with this crucial danger to world peace. At all events, the consequences of a failed sanctions regime against Baghdad are incalculable. Owing to misplaced pleas for the suffering of the Iraqi people – as if we really believe that Saddam lacks the financial means to alleviate this – the tyrant of the Tigris is gradually being given more room to manoeuvre on the international scene. To what end? To wreak death and destruction in his own country and beyond. In a nutshell, it is high time that the UN set up an International Tribunal to conduct a thorough investigation into, and try, all the crimes perpetrated by Saddam’s ‘Republic of Fear’. An initiative to this effect would certainly lend credibility to the CFSP of the European Union. Hence our enthusiastic support for Amendment No 1 of the Brok report."@en1

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