Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2014-09-16 21:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Marc-Andr\u00e9 Morin (Laurentides\u2014Labelle, NDP)",
        "fr": "M. Marc-Andr\u00e9 Morin (Laurentides\u2014Labelle, NPD)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3823763\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague opposite for his testimony. I do not doubt for a split second his conviction and sensitivity, but what I find terrible about this conflict is that everything happening now was predictable years ago. The country has been destroyed and completely ravaged by war. Control of the situation has been taken by the group that is most fanatic, most hateful and most heavily armed. They are completely mad. For them, life has no meaning. Death is a release, a fulfillment. Their idea of complete success is to give their lives for the cause. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3823764\" data-originallang=\"fr\">As the defence against people like that, we need people with a real interest in defending their territory. The Peshmerga, for example. <em>Peshmerga</em>, by the way, means \u201cthose who face death\u201d. They have been fighting for years. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3823765\" data-originallang=\"fr\">If the Americans had taken the Kurds seriously from the outset, the situation in Iraq would never have degenerated to the point we have reached now. We have to start asking ourselves questions. Are we going to become the team that always does the cleaning up after the Americans have made a mess of things? Or are we going to end up admitting that we have to let people solve their own problems in their own countries? That does not prevent us from providing them with assistance, or even weapons.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3823763\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie mon coll\u00e8gue de l'autre c\u00f4t\u00e9 de son t\u00e9moignage. Je ne mets pas en doute une fraction de seconde sa conviction et sa sensibilit\u00e9, mais ce que je trouve le plus terrible dans ce conflit, c'est que tout ce qui se produit maintenant \u00e9tait pr\u00e9visible il y a des ann\u00e9es. Ce pays a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9truit et compl\u00e8tement ravag\u00e9 par la guerre. C'est le groupe le plus fanatique, le plus haineux et le mieux arm\u00e9 qui a pris le contr\u00f4le de la situation. Ces gens sont compl\u00e8tement fous. Pour eux, la vie n'a plus aucun sens. La mort est une lib\u00e9ration et un accomplissement. C'est la r\u00e9ussite totale quand ils donnent leur vie pour la cause.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3823764\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Pour se d\u00e9fendre contre des gens comme cela, il faut des gens qui ont un int\u00e9r\u00eat r\u00e9el et qui d\u00e9fendent leur territoire comme, les Peshmergas. En passant, <em>peshmerga</em> signifie \u00ab pour mourir \u00bb. Ces gens se battent depuis des ann\u00e9es. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3823765\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Si les Am\u00e9ricains avaient pris au s\u00e9rieux les Kurdes d\u00e8s le d\u00e9part, la situation en Irak n'aurait jamais d\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e9r\u00e9 au point o\u00f9 on en est maintenant. Il est temps qu'on commence \u00e0 se poser des questions. Va-t-on devenir l'\u00e9quipe qui fait toujours le m\u00e9nage apr\u00e8s le g\u00e2chis am\u00e9ricain ou va-t-on finir par se dire qu'on doit laisser les gens r\u00e9gler leurs probl\u00e8mes dans leur pays? Cela ne nous emp\u00eache pas de les aider ni m\u00eame de leur fournir des armes.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2014/9/16/marc-andre-morin-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/marc-andre-morin/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4052/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8439597",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Emergency Debate",
        "fr": "D\u00e9bat D'Urgence"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Situation in Iraq",
        "fr": "La situation en Irak"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2014/9/16/",
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