I spent some time in Baghdad before the first Gulf War. At that stage, it was a civilised city in a civilised country with civilised people. However, those people had also been cowed into silence, they lived in fear and hoped for a new dawn. It was clear the people lived in fear and hoped for a new dawn. There has not been a new dawn and it will not happen under the leadership of Saddam Hussein. Ireland, in conjunction with the UN, must try to bring about this new dawn as soon as possible by ensuring Iraq has a Government and leadership that will give its people new hope and repair the damage that has been done over the past 20 years.