Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We were informed that Libya would be different, that lessons had been learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, that this would be a real humanitarian intervention and that there would be no indiscriminate bombing and that only precision weapons would be used. The Government, and this House, were cheerleaders when it came to the bombing of Libya. In six months, the number of people killed there rose from 2,000 to 30,000. Does the Minister agree that the bombing of Libya was a total disaster?

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