Story highlights Donald Trump again reversed his position on Libya on Sunday

He said he would have authorized strategical strikes to take out Moammar Gaddafi

Washington (CNN) Donald Trump reversed his stance on U.S. military intervention in Libya on Sunday, saying he would have authorized "surgical" strikes to take out strongman Moammar Gaddafi -- even though he'd previously said the world would be better with Gaddafi in power.

"I didn't mind surgical. And I said surgical. You do a surgical shot and you take him out," Trump said on CBS' "Face the Nation."

It was a notable change from the position he'd staked out at a Republican presidential debate in Texas in February.

"We would be so much better off if Gaddafi would be in charge right now," Trump said then. He has also hit Clinton over the U.S. intervention in Libya in his stump speech.

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