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The resolution that the European Parliament has just adopted on the situation in Iraq is extremely disappointing, because it does not contain a quite simple but essential sentence: ‘If Iraq does not facilitate the inspections decided upon by the UN, or if it is proved to be concealing weapons of mass destruction that it refuses to neutralise, the European Union will support armed intervention’.
This sentence does not contain anything new, but it is essential because it gives credibility to the inspectors, urging the Baghdad regime to open its doors to them without concealing anything, so that it could avoid the situation subsequently deteriorating still further .
Using this degree of firmness now would help to maintain peace in the future. By removing this sentence, the resolution adopted could imply that the Union is not really prepared to act if Saddam Hussein continues to prevaricate, which is disastrous. We have even heard the Chair of the Socialist Group proclaiming: ‘No to war, and no to the dictator Saddam!’ We know what happens if such an easy stance is taken: first the dictator is tolerated in order not to have a war, and ultimately we end up with both the dictator and a war."@en1
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