Condi on Saddam:"after 17 resolutions... it was time to take care of him."

[sabra]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10546968/page/2/

Secretary of State Rice plays 'Hardball'
In a conversation with NBC's Mitchell, she discusses spying Iraq and more

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MITCHELL: Do you have any regrets, personal regrets, about some of the rhetoric that you and others in the administration used about mushroom clouds and other rather frightening suggestions of weapons of mass destruction now that we know that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?

RICE: Well, first of all, weapons of mass destruction are frightening. And they're frightening particularly in the hands of a tyrant. And they're frightening when the international community can't get answers from a tyrant like Saddam Hussein.

MITCHELL: It was the predicate for war.

RICE: But it was also the belief of intelligence agencies around the world, the U.N. Security Council that kept asking Saddam Hussein to answer for large stores of unaccounted-for weapons materials.

And so, Andrea, the fact of the matter is that what you say-what you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. It can't affect what you do yesterday.

RICE: And what we know today is simply the case that perhaps he did not have the stocks of weapons of mass destruction that we thought he had. But was he a threat? Absolutely, he was a threat.

This was someone who had used weapons of mass destruction in the past. This was someone who was filling his own country with mass graves with his own people. This was someone who was flying, shooting at our aircraft, trying to fly no-fly zones to keep his forces under control, someone paying suicide bombers who committed atrocities against Israel.

This was a threatening presence in the most volatile region in the world. And after 17 resolutions and time and time again, it was time to take care of him.

It's so obvious they wanted him from day 1 :banghead:

[Canuckistanian]

1. How many resolutions on Israel again?

And yet, Israel remains "un-liberated".

[zbdent]

7. Condi should click on this link to see how many

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2321421

This should answer your question . . .

[Canuckistanian]

11. Thanks!

unbelievable...

[Jacobin]

9. 72, I believe

[Straight Shooter]

2. How many resolutions as of the date of the infamous PNAC letter to Clinton

That's when it began, not the "17 resolutions" nonsense.

[sabra]

4. indeed.

[Thorandmjolnir]

3. how does this make sense to anyone?

RICE: And what we know today is simply the case that perhaps he did not have the stocks of weapons of mass destruction that we thought he had. But was he a threat? Absolutely, he was a threat.


If he had no weapons, how could he be a threat?

[sabra]

6. let's break it down:

> This was someone who had used weapons of mass destruction in the past.
While we backed him during the Iran/Iraq war

> This was someone who was filling his own country with mass graves with his own people.
Same as above, in addition current conditions may be even worse now.

> This was someone who was flying, shooting at our aircraft, trying to fly no-fly zones to keep his forces under control,
Weren't we bombing him too?

> someone paying suicide bombers who committed atrocities against Israel.
He didn't pay the bombers, he would give money to the families. It was a ploy to use the Palestinian/Israeli conflict for political PR.

Saddam was a SOB, but he was our SOB...

[stepnw1f]

5. Fess Up Bitch... You Broke the Law

You lied knowingly to the American People... and now you must atone!

[louis-t]

8. Oh, right Condi, he had "assspirationsss"

Sorry, I forgot. Bitch.

[MN ChimpH8R]

10. The Shoe Queen Lies Again

Every fugging time she opens her mouth, that is. :banghead: To the Hague with her!