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"en.20030326.5.3-066"2
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"Mr President, the war being waged against Iraq is an imperialist war. A nation is being massacred so that half a dozen trusts, whether they are oil companies or not, can redistribute the cards and the markets amongst themselves. The present war is directly in line with so many other wars fought in the past by the great powers, by Britain and the United States, but also by Germany and France, acting sometimes together and sometimes against one another, in order to exploit the Middle East and to plunder its wealth.
Words such as liberty, democracy and the condemnation of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship are merely hypocrisy to conceal a war of banditry. While the armies of the two greatest powers in the world are still crushing Baghdad beneath their bombs and forcing the inhabitants of Basra to die of hunger and thirst, their major companies are already sharing juicy contracts, like vultures squabbling over the corpse of a country that they are in the process of murdering. At the European Council, ministers from countries taking part in the aggression against Iraq and those from countries claiming to be opposed to the war came together to produce a single declaration, as if nothing had happened. What better illustration could there be of the fact that, despite of their differences of opinion, they are, above all, accomplices?"@en1
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