Vi kan ikke sige, at vi var nødt til at handle, fordi der var gået 12 år, hvor Saddam Husseins styre ikke havde overholdt FN's resolutioner, når vi har ventet 30 år på, at resolution 242 skulle blive overholdt.
We cannot say that action had to be taken because 12 years had passed during which the regime of Saddam Hussein had not respected the United Nations resolutions when we have been waiting three decades for Resolution 242 to be complied with.