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"en.20030320.2.4-029"2
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"Mr President, ‘the United Nations Security Council has not lived up to its responsibilities, so we will rise to ours’. With this sad but entirely justified observation, America’s President Bush gave notice of the liberation of Iraq, the region and the world from Saddam Hussein. Military action against this merciless tyrant is not only fully justified; it is even a bounden duty. The UN resolutions are clear in this respect. The opposition organised by some Member States has, to put it mildly, not done anything for the credibility of the United Nations as a body for enforcing the peace. It was high time we took action against the local, regional and global danger posed by this heartless tyrant with his weapons of mass destruction. At the same time, it is of the greatest importance to repair damaged transatlantic relations. Let us – in Europe, America and elsewhere – recover our unanimity and together commit ourselves to a free and democratic Iraq. We pray for compassion towards the Iraqi people and soldiers and their families. We also pray that we in the European Parliament will, together with President Bush, acknowledge our dependence upon God."@en1
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