Condoleezza Rice admits mistakes in Iraq

[sabra]

Source: the australian

CONDOLEEZZA Rice has conceded the US made mistakes in the Iraq war during the Bush administration.

But she stands by the original decision to oust Saddam Hussein.

The former US secretary of state for president George W. Bush believes his administration put too much emphasis on Baghdad, and not enough on Iraq's regions. "I do believe I would take Saddam Hussein out of power again, but of course in the rebuilding of Iraq . . . I would do things differently," Dr Rice says in a CNN interview to be aired today.

Dr Rice has not denied having "shouting matches" with the hawkish defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

In the interview, she argues it is still too early to fully judge the success or failure of the Iraq war and other policy decisions of the Bush era. "Sometimes things that look terrific at the time look pretty bad in retrospect, and vice versa, so ultimately this is a story that will be written in history," she says.

The New York Times reported yesterday that hundreds, possibly thousands, of US-allied Sunnis from the Awakening Councils had quit their positions and joined rebels aligned with al-Qa'ida.

Read more: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/condoleezza-rice-admits-mistakes-in-iraq/story-e6frg6so-1225940382505

[closeupready]

1. Nothing that incompetent bureaucratic hack says is of interest to me.

n/t

[MurrayDelph]

14. Not unless she

is providing "State's Evidence"
(Or whatever the World Court's variation of that is).

[calimary]

22. And I'd like to hear her come clean on being george's backstage girl.

[Autumn]

2. She is so sickening,

:puke: :puke:

[ixion]

3. Not "mistakes," Condi... crimes. War crimes, specficially

that outweigh any questionable good derived from "ousting" Saddam.

[donheld]

17. +100000

[lunatica]

4. When she says it was a criminal act of war to even go there in the first place

And that she was complicit in the decision to commit crimes against humanity I might give a shit. Until then she's just a criminal who's gotten away with her crimes.

[Solly Mack]

5. Bother. That was a bullshit phrase used throughout the Bush years

"mistakes were made"

Course, those so-called "mistakes" were actually crimes.

Edit to add: FUCK Rice and all the rest of the Bush administration.

[sakabatou]

6. No, a mistake is filling in the wrong bubble on a test

What you and the rest of the assholes around you was a WAR CRIME.

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. When did they look terrific?

I'm guessing that was the short period when they decided to go in before the deadline and hoped that the first hour of Shock and Awe would be enough to kill Saddam. They were working out of plan after that.

[woo me with science]

8. I think we might see her on the R ticket.

She has been in the news a lot lately.

[gratuitous]

9. Well, she has a book to sell

And being an unindicted war criminal doesn't pay as well as you might think, unless your name is Henry.

[woo me with science]

13. Ah, didn't realize that. Thanks. nt

[Brother Buzz]

10. Ms. Rice, how'd your Iraq Stabilization Group thingy turn out?

Would you judge it a success or failure, or would you just as soon forget about it like Bush apparently did? Can you differentiate between a mistake and a miserable failure?

[dogfacedboy]

20. Don't you mean Ms. Greasy Bushwhore?

[L.Torsalo]

11. Is she/it

willing to pay for these war crimes.

[dogfacedboy]

19. Of course not! Why would the Bushwhore be willing to do that?

[barb162]

12. Invading Iraq was one of the worst mistakes this country has ever made

[sakabatou]

15. Along with Afghanistan

[tavalon]

16. War Crimes, Hon, War Crimes

Mistakes can be War Crimes but War Crimes are not Mistakes.

[displacedvermoter]

27. Think she talked them (war crimes) over with the President

during their recent meeting at the White House?

[dogfacedboy]

18. Phuque You, Bushwhore!!! I'd like to see her dropped on the streets of Iraq to fend for her life!

[TheWatcher]

21. Fuck You, War Criminal.

It was a mistake you were ever born to plague this world with your criminal bullshit.

Rot in Hell, you stupid piece of trash.

:mad:

[Skittles]

23. FUCK OFF ALREADY YOU REPUKE *WHORE*

[Javaman]

24. the neo-cons will always believe that it will be "too early to assess" iraq...

ricechecks can go fuck off. She's as much a war criminal as the rest of them. She was ava braun to morons* hitler.

[Bragi]

25. So will you be traveling abroad to promote your book?

My guess is, no, like the rest of the Bushites, she won't be testing the international waters, what with all those foreigners out there ready to serve her with a subpoena from the International Criminal Court.

Now this could be avoided if the U.S used its own war crimes legislation to prosecute these war criminals. I'm guessing her meeting with Obama last week (also reported in the article) suggests that prosecution remains unlikely.

"We must look forward" as the White House message puts it.

I know I'm looking forward to visiting France and England this summer, which is something that, happily, no Bushite can dare to hope for.

[Supersedeas]

26. Waiting on the paid Revisionist to re-write "History"