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"Mr President, President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, for ten years you have done nothing to prepare for a situation post Saddam Hussein, to establish the protection of life and law in Iraq and the Middle East, and now, thanks to you, here we are discussing what to do after the war. The war is a present to us from law-abiding Europe, your Europe. Allow me to say that we non-violent, Ghandian protesters will fight from this moment onwards to ensure that war and other measures employed do not continue for one minute after Baghdad has been disarmed, not one minute! Will we have the strength? We are not going to shout ‘Peace!’ and then murder it as we did 70 years ago. You say we are acting unlawfully? As unlawfully as de Gaulle. You are as law-abiding as Vichy! We are acting as unlawfully as the Iraqi resistance, as unlawfully as the European resistance. We tell you now that we are going to throw ourselves into battle without delay and fight for peace founded on freedom and the rule of law. Cowardly Europe, Vichy’s Europe! It is not the Europe of those who suffered fighting fascism, the Europe of Altiero Spinelli, the Europe of Ernesto Rossi, the Europe of those who genuinely gave us the right to look the heirs of Lafayette in the eye too, which you are failing to do with your outdated fascist, communist, papist contempt for the world of international liberal and religious reform!"@en1

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