Paschal Mooney (Fianna Fail)

The United Nations has mandated this but what is happening is that countries are standing back and not getting involved in the reconstruction of Iraq for security reasons. The UN had to pull out, as did most of the multi-national agencies. There is a real crisis on the ground in Iraq. It does not help the debate towards a viable and free Iraq to constantly hark back to what happened 18 months ago, sad, difficult and evil as it may have been. Let us move forward.