対イラク武力行使

Thank you for making it necessary for Tony Blair to go to the British
parliament with a fabricated dossier written by a student ten years ago,
and present this as damning evidence collected by the British Secret
Services.

Thank you for allowing Colin Powell to make a complete fool of himself by
showing the UN Security Council photos which, one week later, were publicly
challenged by Hans Blix, the chief weapons inspector in Iraq.

Thank you for adopting your current position and thus ensuring that, at the
plenary session, the French foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin・s
anti-war speech was greeted with applause, something, as far as I know,
that has only happened once before in the history of the UN, following
a speech by Nelson Mandela.

Thank you too, because, after all your efforts to promote war, the
normally divided Arab nations were, for the first time, at their meeting in
Cairo
during the last week in February, unanimous in their condemnation of any
invasion.

Thank you for your rhetoric stating that the UN now has a chance to
demonstrate its relevance, a statement which made even the most
reluctant countries take up a position opposing any attack on Iraq.

Thank you for your foreign policy ,which provoked the British foreign
secretary, Jack Straw, into declaring that in the 21st century, a war
can have a moral justifications, thus causing him to lose all credibility.

Thank you for trying to divide a Europe that is currently struggling
for unification; this was a warning that will not go unheeded.

Thank you for having achieved something that very few have so far
managed to do in this century: the bringing together of millions of people
on
all continents to fight for the same idea, even though that idea is opposed
to yours.

Thank you for making us feel once more that though our words may not be
heard, they are at least spoken this will make us stronger in the future.

Thank you for ignoring us, for marginalising all those who oppose your
decision, because the future of the Earth belongs to the excluded.

Thank you, because, without you, we would not have realized our own
ability to mobilize. It may serve no purpose this time, but it will
doubtless
be useful later on.

Now that there seems no way of silencing the drums of war, I would like
to say, as an ancient European king said to an invader: May your morning
be a beautiful one, may the sun shine on your soldiers armour, for in the
afternoon, I will defeat you.

Thank you for allowing us an army of anonymous people filling the
streets in an attempt to stop a process that is already underway, to know
what
it feels like to be powerless and to learn to grapple with that feeling
and transform it.

So, enjoy your morning and whatever glory it may yet bring you.

Thank you for not listening to us and not taking us seriously, but know
that we are listening to you and that we will not forget your words.

Thank you, great leader George W. Bush.

Thank you very much.