Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

That has to be the wrong way to do it, throwing it out as if they were the lord protectors who had come to protect the people of Basra and all of these towns, the names of which, along with the those of the rivers and the passwords, trip off our tongues as if we were daily familiar with them. There is something wrong about men and women in uniform giving out aid and having the bullet in the other hand. It has to be, as the Minister stated, the NGOs and the recognised agencies and the countries that are giving the humanitarian aid. In essence humanitarian aid in the hands of invaders is wrong and obscene.