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The anti-war movement has been utterly vindicated over Libya
There has not been a single day of peace in Libya since Cameron and co proclaimed the overthrow of tyranny, says KEVIN OVENDEN
Then prime minister David Cameron (right) and then foreign secretary William Hague visit Tripoli in 2011

“OUR message to them is this: there are better days ahead for Libya … A new beginning for Libya is within their grasp and we will help them seize it.”

Those were the words of David Cameron at the “London Conference on Libya” he convened just over eight years ago in March 2011.

Basking in the limelight, he waved the figleaf of a UN security council resolution, whose narrow remit had already been breached on day one of the bombing campaign led by France, Britain and the US, and outlined a policy of regime change flagrantly at odds with international law.

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