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Trump Says Removing Qaddafi Was Mistake, But Pushed For Libya Intervention In 2011

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BuzzFeed - "Now we should go in, we should stop this guy, which would be very easy and very quick." The comments leave an opening for rivals like Ted Cruz, who has panned the intervention. View Video ? buzzfeed-video1.s3.amazonaws.com Donald Trump often rails against U.S. interventions in the Middle East that topple dictators whose exits lead to unstable regional consequences like the rise of ISIS and other terrorist groups. But one intervention he has subsequently come to pan ? the 2011 U.S. intervention in Libya, which led to the toppling of longtime leader Muammar al-Qaddafi ? Trump once very loudly called for on humanitarian grounds. "I mean, look at Libya," Trump said on CNN's State of the Union last year. "Look at Iraq. Iraq used to be no terrorists. He [Saddam Hussein] would kill the terrorists immediately, which is like, now it's the Harvard of terrorism. If you look at Iraq from years ago, I'm not saying he was a nice guy, he wa

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