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America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.

Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists.

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms.

A colossal event is upon us, the birth of a New World Order.

We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.

My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.