BERNARD KOUCHNER

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

Saddam Hussein was perhaps the most bloodthirsty dictator after Hitler and Stalin. We can defend the oil of Kuwait, but not the people of Iraq.

To be alone as a pioneerlike we were, was difficult. My strategy was not only to help the people, or transform the world, but to do both

Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.

I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

It is necessary to take the further step of using the right to intervention as a preventive measure, to stop wars before they start and to stop murderers before they kill ... We knew what was likely to happen in Somalia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo long before they exploded into war. But we didn’t act. If these experiences have taught us anything, it is that the time for a decisive evolution in international consciousness has arrived.

Saddam Hussein was perhaps the most bloodthirsty dictator after Hitler and Stalin. We can defend the oil of Kuwait, but not the people of Iraq.

It is necessary to take the further step of using the right to intervention as a preventive measure, to stop wars before they start and to stop murderers before they kill ... We knew what was likely to happen in Somalia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo long before they exploded into war. But we didn’t act. If these experiences have taught us anything, it is that the time for a decisive evolution in international consciousness has arrived.

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.

I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

To be alone as a pioneerlike we were, was difficult. My strategy was not only to help the people, or transform the world, but to do both