We have the same situation in regard to where we stand in the world. At the first sitting of this Seanad I asked for debate on Iraq and I thank the Leader for her response on that occasion. I feel helpless and vulnerable when I hear the drums of war being beaten. I know those drums will find an echo in this country. I am not happy with the way the situation is developing, that veiled threats are being made to the United Nations by the United States, although I am pro America. I cannot be otherwise because we are like sister nations as a result of the number of Irish there. There is much more at stake however. When Madeline Albright was asked on television if she could justify the deaths of children in Iraq she said she could. Nobody can justify the unnecessary death of 500,000 children if all the outlets and opportunities of diplomacy have not been used. The United Nations has been playing on the basis of diplomacy but America has been playing on the basis of armed conflict. We need to discuss that. One might say it is the case of The Skibbereen Eagle lecturing the Tsar but it is not.