I have listened carefully to what has been said. If we are to make the judgments we should about this issue, we must ensure that the principles we apply have universal validity. While not suggesting a moral equivalence between the United States of America and Iraq, I am not prepared to accept the positing of a moral dichotomy in which one is perfect and the other is dreadful. One is dreadful, but the United States is firmly allied to many of the most repressive regimes in the Arab world. Saudi Arabia is a totalitarian state governed by a single family. All dissidence is suppressed and religious intolerance in the name of Islam is encouraged in a fashion which is contrary to the basic principles of that religion.