Rice says "PEOPLE WORLDWIDE" thought Saddam had WMD's

[Bluebear]

Take your "luxury" and go away, DOCTOR Rice. You screwed up. Big time.

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said here Sunday that the US-led war in Iraq will turn out to be a "strategic achievement" for not only President George W. Bush but for the United States.

Interviewed on Fox news, Rice said she "would give anything" to revisit the issue of weapons of mass destruction, but said the 2003 invasion was still right even if the weapons were never found.

"I still believe that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein is going to turn out to be a great strategic achievement, not just for the Bush administration, but for the United States of America," Rice told Fox...

But she said people worldwide suspected Saddam was hiding his weapons of mass destruction, as he had used them in the past.

"And so while it's fine to go back and say what might we have done differently, the truth of the matter is we don't have that luxury. And we didn't at the time," Rice said.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gsDkC82rc2z8wIJSIY9Y3SopR-Jg

[Idealism]

1. Apparently there are two "world's" on this planet...

Because more than half of them knew he didn't and thought we were crazy warmongerers and said so, in no uncertain terms.

[Bluebear]

2. You said it.

[B Calm]

19. Even for the majority of the ones that believed he did, came to

their senses a few days into the war. Hell, anybody with any common sense at all should have known. What is the reason for having WMD’s in the first place, if you're not going to use them against an invading army? That should have been a wake up call to the willfully ignorant republican, but no, some chose to believe even a more ridiculous argument that Saddam moved them. Why would, he had moved them? Was he saving them for a rainy day? Once again proving without a doubt that using common sense is not a republican trait.

[meegbear]

3. How so we know he once had WMDs?

We kept the receipts.

[stray cat]

10. He killecd people with them - pretty good evidence of previous possession

[dipsydoodle]

21. And who exactly supplied them to him ?

:sarcasm:

[Idealism]

23. Saddam in the 80s gassed mainly Kurds

He didn't bomb them, but yes it was a despicable thing to do. BUT in the less than 7 years we have been there, we have killed over 5 times as many Iraqi civilians than is ESTIMATED in all of Saddam's years that he killed. Saving the country from a dictator or an excuse for genocide? I guess if you lived in Anbar you would have a differant answer

[This One]

28. I remember Reagan and Bush objecting to that... oh wait...

[Submariner]

13. Raygun and Rummy gave the gas to Saddam to use on Iran

which he did, and with a little left over, on his own people. This all took place in the 1980s.

[benddem]

4. I didn't

and neither did the UN inspectors. I hope she goes away.

[wtmusic]

5. To dismiss the deaths of hundreds of thousands as "strategy"

is unconscionable. Cya at the Hague, Condi.

[navarth]

6. She's starting to believe her own horse shit

maybe she's doing coke with Bu$h.

[WCGreen]

7. Just because all the other kids are jumping off a bridge Condi,

doesn't mean you have to follow...

Didn't your ever listen to your mother?

[robinlynne]

8. and noone could have imagined that airplanes would be flown into buildings....

[xxqqqzme]

9. 'people worldwide'

believed the UN weapons inspectors who said there were NO WMDs. How about that history?

[hobbit709]

11. The only people I call "Doctor" can put MD after their names.

Her "Doctorate" is a Piled Higher and Deeper. Let's see how far your BS gets you at The Hague.

[Hepburn]

12. Dear Rice Person: So you and the Bush Cabal lied your asses off...

...with bullshit about "yellow cake" and other shit you knew to be totally false and NOW you are blaming what happened on the "fact" that rest of the world believed your lies? FUCK YOU!

GMAFB! :grr:

[Vickers]

14. "not just for the Bush administration"

That is their mindset in a nutshell right there...everything is for THEM, and the People are secondary (at best).

[lutherj]

15. Why did Bush kick the UN Inspectors out of Iraq? If your justification

for going to war is the possibility of WMD, and only that, wouldn't you also consider the possibility that you are wrong? Wouldn't you let the inspectors finish their work? Wouldn't you be relieved by the possibility that you are wrong? Even if Saddam had WMD, would he have been so foolish as to use it against the US or our allies? Deterrence worked with the Soviet Union for 50 years, but it wouldn't with Iraq?

[moondust]

16. Liar.

According to the aide, by the mid-1990s "it was common knowledge among the leadership" that Iraq had destroyed its chemical stocks and discontinued development of biological and nuclear weapons.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2003_08/001807.php

Thus, for seven or more years leading up to 2002 there were apparently no active WMD programs--and hence no new intelligence generated about active WMD programs. For some years prior to that any WMD intelligence was likely questionable in the wake of Gulf War I. Too many people involved to fake it. (Gosh, nobody has showed up for work at the WMD site for the past 8 years. Duh.) No way all the world's intelligence agencies were fooled for 7+ years.

You don't invade another country based on dubious 8-year-old intelligence.

[screembloodymurder]

17. It's wasn't "nation building", just a little "regional threat remediation".

Must be Condi's "Iraq was no threat to the US at the time or in the foreseeable future, but who knows it could have become a threat" Just War Doctrine.

[Johonny]

18. Is going to turn out to be a great strategic achievement

When? I mean if in 3400 Iraq turns into a democracy will their be a neocon around trying to pretend it was due to the Iraq war?

[Hubert Flottz]

20. I thought it was Karl that was in charge of selling the bullshit now?

[alfredo]

22. that could mean one person on each continent.

[Horse with no Name]

24. Revisionist history. Don't forget the critical fact that the WORLD refused to stand with us

because they did NOT believe it.

[TWiley]

25. The Germans and Russians didnt ........ I didn't

oops, she is revising history again.

[ShortnFiery]

26. Bullshit! People Worldwide held the *Largest Anti-Invasion Protests* in the history of this PLANET.

Oh, Condi RICE?!?

Go away little girl. :grr:

[Bluebear]

29. Ain't that the truth!

[Jack Rabbit]

27. Because Judy

Just wanted to throw you a curve ball, Condi.

[Beausoleil]

30. Except for Powell and Rice pre 9/11

The occasion was a press conference on 24 February 2001 during Powell's visit to Cairo, Egypt. Answering a question about the US-led sanctions against Iraq, the Secretary of State said:

We had a good discussion, the Foreign Minister and I and the President and I, had a good discussion about the nature of the sanctions -- the fact that the sanctions exist -- not for the purpose of hurting the Iraqi people, but for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction. We should constantly be reviewing our policies, constantly be looking at those sanctions to make sure that they are directed toward that purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now as it was ten years ago when we began it. And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq...

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But Powell wasn't the only senior administration official telling the truth before the truth became highly inconvenient. On 29 July 2001, Condoleezza Rice appeared on CNN Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer (an anonymous reader sent me the full transcript from Lexis-Nexis). Then King asks her about the sanctions against Iraq. She replies:

But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2334

[Solly Mack]

31. People worldwide say Rice is a war criminal

said statement having the added benefit of being true...unlike Rice's comment

[CitizenPatriot]

32. good catch bluebear

The revisionist bs that is allowed to pass (perhaps due to sheer exhaustion on the part of the average american) is scary.

Everyone the world wide thought this?

Not even their own people thought it was true. At least not the people in the know. STOP the lies.

[harun]

33. Thinking vs. having evidence (some tiny bit even)

Everyone thinks a lot of countries have WMD, so what if they do? Doesn't make pre-emptive war any less stupid.

[marlakay]

34. If people did believe that its only because the had

Powell and many others lie about it and show their supposed evidence.