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"Mr President, all the fine words about Saddam Hussein’s having to be disarmed and about the Iraqi people’s being entitled to freedom ring remarkably hollow in a situation in which we all know that Saddam Hussein has not the slightest intention of disarming or going into exile, let alone of giving the oppressed Iraqi people their freedom. European history from 1930 to 1939 is the history of a Europe that, step by step, gave in to Hitler’s expansion and aggression. ‘There will be peace in our time’, said Chamberlain when he returned from his meeting with Hitler in Munich in 1938. Today, the Chamberlains of our own time say that Saddam Hussein can be disarmed by the weapons inspectors. If that is the case, why was this not done long ago? We also forget that the weapons that threaten the world outside Iraq, and that we wish to remove, are not the same weapons used to oppress the Iraqi people. That is something that is easily achieved using conventional small arms.
The war against Saddam Hussein must be a war of liberation. It is a question of democratising the Arab countries. Democracy and economic development are the only protection against terrorists but, in the twelve years since the weapons inspections began, the EU’s efforts have been designed to secure our peaceful coexistence with the dictator. The EU must think again and be much more active in promoting the freedoms and social development of the Arab peoples. As long as we only have words to offer, we are powerless."@en1
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