What [America] is saying is that if you are afraid of a veto in the Security Council, you can go outside and take action and violate the sovereignty of other countries.

That is the message they are sending to the world. That must be condemned in the strongest terms. And you will notice that France, Germany Russia, China are against this decision.
It is clearly a decision that is motivated by George W. Bush’s desire to please the arms and oil industries in the United States of America.

Scott Ritter, a former United Nations arms inspector who is in Baghdad, has said that there is no evidence whatsoever of [development of weapons of] mass destruction.
Neither Bush nor [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair
has provided any evidence that such weapons exist.
But what we know is that Israel has weapons of
mass destruction. Nobody talks about that. Why should there be one standard for one country, especially because it is black, and another one for another country, Israel, that is white.
There is no doubt that the United States now feels that they are the only superpower in the world and they can do
what they like. And of
course we must consider
the men and the women
around the president.

Dick Cheney, [Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld, they are people who are unfortunately misleading the president. Because my impression of the president is that this is a man with whom you can do business.

But it is the men who around him who are dinosaurs, who do not want him to belong to the modern age.