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Iraq: Coalition Against ISIL

Debate between Lord Hain and Stephen O'Brien
Friday 26th September 2014

(10 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Hain Portrait Mr Hain
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I agree absolutely.

Even Libya, supposedly a surgical operation consented to by this House in 2011, is hardly a good advertisement for us, with chaos now in the country.

Stephen O'Brien Portrait Mr Stephen O'Brien (Eddisbury) (Con)
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In supporting the motion, as I think broadly we are across the House, does the right hon. Gentleman agree that one of the lessons from the 2003 intervention in Iraq is that we should have designed in the reconstruction of Iraq as a democratic state from the outset, rather than leaving it till after we had achieved some military effect?

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