Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Irish personnel who get involved in these missions are very well trained and highly qualified. We have nothing but peace to work towards when we get involved but the people we often get involved with do not. Peace is not the objective of the Western powers in this or the Middle East region. If it was, things would be happening differently. President Obama in his term of office has bombed seven Muslim countries-----

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