President Frantzisko Bidanda talking at the Kundrati Legebiltzarra.
ARTANIA MARCHES TO WAR!
President Frantzisko Bidanda announces "Operation Saighdiúirí na Saoirse"
My fellow Kundrati.
We are at war.
Kirlawa has launched a devastating and evil gas attack upon our National Homeland. Not in our history of the Republic have we been directly attacked by our neighbors and by our friends. We have been lucky to have declared an evacuation yet there are still hundreds effected on all sides and likely thousands more too.
This is their first strike. This is their attack. We have been preparing for this day and yet we have seen criticism because of this from behind and from the back hallways. They say we are warmongers, we are overreacting, that we have caused what has happened now. They say that Kundrati is imperialist, that this is clear proof as day that we are an imperialist power. They claim that we have forced Kirlawa to strike and that our merciful quarantine was the real first strike.
[As commotion rises from the members of the Legislature, Bidanda raises his voice for this section.]
And now we have had our fears proven! This is an attack (empathsis on this part)! When your nation is attacked the only response is to strike back.
This is the fault of the military forces of the Kirlawan state. Therefore, I announce Operation Saighdiúirí na Saoirse, or Soldiers of Freedom. The objective is to make sure Kirlawa never does this again, for it is very likely due to our intelligence assets and information that their unusual movements on their side of the border are military movements that could result in more of our Kundratijans and Dundorfians and more to be subject to this assault. All land, air, and sea forces of the Kundrati Union shall be tasked with this purpose.
We have seen teenagers of the Kirlawan state being forced into war as well. They should be allowed to go to the club and enjoy thier lives and yet they are being ordered to fire a gun and ensure that they throw their lives away for their state. The state dares to hide themselves with the reports of censorship and attacks on journalists. Is this not what we Artanians and Terrans fight against?
I will lead our men and women into this fight however hard it shall be. Already other nations have offered their assistance which shall be taken into consideration.
To all of my fellow Kundratijans I tell you this not as the President but as a fellow Kundrati man. If my children were stabbed I would want the perpretator to be caught and punished. This shall be done.
Yet we must also recognize the unendurable. We must endure it. We must endure the unendurable and understand the inevitable. Only then can we come out of this as true Artanians and Terrans.