J’en profite pour expliquer également que j’ai voté en faveur d’une augmentation du budget relatif à la reconstruction de l’Irak, même si j’étais et reste totalement opposée à la guerre, car nous ne pouvons, à mon sens, continuer à punir le peuple irakien, surtout au vu des graves insuffisances en matière de services de base dont souffre la population et qui existaient déjà avant le conflit.
At the same time, I would also like to explain that I have voted in favour of an increase in the budget in relation to the reconstruction of Iraq, although I was at the time and continue to be totally against the war, because I believe that we cannot continue to punish the Iraqi people, particularly in view of the serious insufficiencies in basic services for the population which already existed.