David Norris (Independent)

This is a filthy and unjustifiable war. While I know he is a decent man who feels things keenly, the Minister of State mentioned the fact that, as we have just heard, a maternity hospital had been bombed. Are we now to be told that the babies in their incubators bombed themselves? This the kind of thing the Americans have been saying. With regard to this business of liberating people and giving them democracy, one cannot dump democracy from the sky on top of them in the form of a bomb. That is simply impossible, it must be grown from the base up. One cannot have instant solutions.