Tony Benn - The Gulf War (Double Standards)

now I will use plain language I fear that the United States has already decided that when it is ready it will create a pretext for a war against Rome that is what I believe I equipped the Foreign Secretary of being in that hawkish plan because it is a part as one can penetrate the inscrutable corridors of power in their inhabitants he seems to be a bit of a DAB but let me say this too without offence Britain is a minor player he would escape be there the debate today as if everything didn't stir on whether the Prime Minister decided to go to war the Prime Minister is a minor player in this unfolding and a tragedy she decided to go in with the pride with the president maybe because of the transatlantic relationship the so-called special relationship was thanks for the Falklands because she didn't want to get mixed up with the easy but she's a minor player and once she decided and the cabinet decided to commit even a notional number of air forces and RAF regiment and now the troops she is locked into what President Bush intends to do I am opposed to a war against Iraq I am opposed to action outside the United Nations I believe it would divide the Security Council I believe it might not exactly unite the Arab world that might bring many Arab countries together against us and I think the outcome of such a war could not be sure because President had as then would certainly have the capacity were he to choose to do it to destroy so many oil installations that though he himself might be destroyed it would inflict a burden upon the world economy and the Middle East which could not be contemplated I believe the sanctions will but I think you have to set this up against what would happen otherwise I'm a socialist there's something else to the house without in anywhere being offensive because governments are not of any color in any country the main proponents and practitioner practitioners of morality but to hear the United States which went into Panama 3,000 people workers and to talk about the right of of internationals America Legends of Grenada America supported Iraq we're supported Iraq when they attacked Iran America did nothing when Cyprus was invaded and partitioned by by Turkey America has no moral authority any more than any superpower and the same would be true of of the Soviet Union about Afghanistan or ever has no moral authority nor might I add because these things have better be said because nobody else has said them when we're defending of the Emir or the king of Saudi Arabia none of these people practice any democracy not saying they aren't entitled to the protection of the Charter because I've said it already but when I think of the denunciations of the breaches of human rights at Eastern Europe by ministers wouldn't you've expected one of them in this dispute would have pointed out you have your hand chopped off for shoplifting in Riyadh are we to live in a world where summer morality is a product of a parliamentary majority now the real issue is this and everybody knows it and nobody has mentioned it the Americans want to protect their oil supply right in saying not a single member on either side of the house tonight has drawn attention to what the former attorney general of the United States Ramsay club said on the radio on our side he said we forced Saudi Arabia to accept our army there because we wanted to protect our oil now we are experienced as an imperial power that won't shock the party opposite not ask you to shock anybody I already asked us to recognize a fact when it you in the face then there is the arm straight now that has been brought out a bit I was in Algiers couple years are going to met the former Egyptian Foreign Minister told me there just had a seminar in Cairo about the Crusades and during the Crusades European arms manufacturers supplied arms to Richard Coeur de Leon and to Saladin so nothing really changed the arms manufacturers have made billions of pounds out of selling instruments of mass destruction properly to hold down these colonial people so that the sheiks will supply the cheap oil and partly because it's highly profitable to sell arms now I asked for the hassles that are consider this if we're going to war and there are those who think we we might what are our warriors not an unreasonable question is it to freak awake is it to topple who say is it to destroy a rap your weapons ooh my girlfriend the lead of the Opposition went further action the Prime Minister in setting the objective is it to arrest Saddam Hussein and bring him to an international war crimes tribunal that promised to say that on television are you gonna sell British and British troops in to fight until you clarified what it's about the government has never made it clear the answer is it is for the reason I gave the United States having helped to Amsterdam a saying he's determined to bring him down and establish a base i mr. Liddy because it is not the hardware of military whether it is that frightens me because a gun come along it is the hatred that makes people want to use them that is the fuel of war and in the last month we've had the most vicious war propaganda and the Templar of peace of which pundit now is dissipating the temper of peace is what we need we want to be quoted and we want to let it work its way through the United Nations and for that reason mr. speaker and it wouldn't have been possible without some help from the chair I intend to divide the house against the adjournment motion tomorrow

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Length: 6min 35sec (395 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 01 2008