Rice regrets how US prioritized rebuilding in Iraq

Rice regrets how US prioritized rebuilding in Iraq

AP
Fri Mar 19, 7:51 am ET
HONG KONG –


Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday she would "many times over liberate"
Iraq again, but she regretted the Bush administration failed to work closer with Iraqis to rebuild
the war-torn country.

Rice, speaking at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said she believed history would eventually
vindicate many of the decisions made during the presidency of George W. Bush.

"I would many times over liberate Iraq again from Saddam Hussein," Rice said.
"I think he was a danger to the Middle East."

However, she suggested the U.S. government failed to understand "how broken Iraq was as a society"
and should have focused its rebuilding efforts outside of Baghdad, the capital.

"We tried to rebuild Iraq from Baghdad out, and we really should have rebuilt Iraq from
outside Baghdad in," she said.

"We should have worked with the tribes, worked in the provinces," she said, adding that
smaller projects should have been favored over big ones.

"That's something that in retrospect that we finally got right" several years after
the 2003 invasion. "And it's one reason I think Iraq has a chance."



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the biggest mistake bush made was destroying a perfectly functioning infrastructure. depose saddam sure, but why eliminate a functioning gov't infrastructure

More people were killed by us going in more of our troops were killed than died in the 9/11 attack. We pull out and it goes right back where it was before. So what's right about that?

Joebert wrote:

More people were killed by us going in more of our troops were killed than died in the 9/11 attack. We pull out and it goes right back where it was before. So what's right about that?

russia replaced germany as the world aggressor after WWII. so what did we accomplish there?

KK wrote:

Joebert wrote:

More people were killed by us going in more of our troops were killed than died in the 9/11 attack. We pull out and it goes right back where it was before. So what's right about that?

russia replaced germany as the world aggressor after WWII. so what did we accomplish there?

The liberation of Western Europe, South Pacific, Northern Africa, Southeast Asia, etc.

Looks like Condi has jumped on the Bush Crime Family's revisionist history bandwagon.

JJjava wrote:

KK wrote:

Joebert wrote:

More people were killed by us going in more of our troops were killed than died in the 9/11 attack. We pull out and it goes right back where it was before. So what's right about that?

russia replaced germany as the world aggressor after WWII. so what did we accomplish there?

The liberation of Western Europe, South Pacific, Northern Africa, Southeast Asia, etc.

northen africa is muslim, SEA is communist, Europe is socialist. The islands we saved, no one even cares about.

KK wrote:

JJjava wrote:

KK wrote:

Joebert wrote:

More people were killed by us going in more of our troops were killed than died in the 9/11 attack. We pull out and it goes right back where it was before. So what's right about that?

russia replaced germany as the world aggressor after WWII. so what did we accomplish there?

The liberation of Western Europe, South Pacific, Northern Africa, Southeast Asia, etc.

northen africa is muslim, SEA is communist, Europe is socialist. The islands we saved, no one even cares about.

Should we destroy them all now, or do you think Europe might still have a chance? We'll have to do this ourselves, since it's probably too late to bring the Nazis back, now that we've so carelessly disposed of them.

JJjava wrote:

KK wrote:

JJjava wrote:

KK wrote:

Joebert wrote:

More people were killed by us going in more of our troops were killed than died in the 9/11 attack. We pull out and it goes right back where it was before. So what's right about that?

russia replaced germany as the world aggressor after WWII. so what did we accomplish there?

The liberation of Western Europe, South Pacific, Northern Africa, Southeast Asia, etc.

northen africa is muslim, SEA is communist, Europe is socialist. The islands we saved, no one even cares about.

Should we destroy them all now, or do you think Europe might still have a chance? We'll have to do this ourselves, since it's probably too late to bring the Nazis back, now that we've so carelessly disposed of them.

there's still a few skinheads left in illinois and georgia. dig up a few nazi relics and we could get this thing going again

KK wrote:

JJjava wrote:

KK wrote:

JJjava wrote:

KK wrote:

Joebert wrote:

More people were killed by us going in more of our troops were killed than died in the 9/11 attack. We pull out and it goes right back where it was before. So what's right about that?

russia replaced germany as the world aggressor after WWII. so what did we accomplish there?

The liberation of Western Europe, South Pacific, Northern Africa, Southeast Asia, etc.

northen africa is muslim, SEA is communist, Europe is socialist. The islands we saved, no one even cares about.

Should we destroy them all now, or do you think Europe might still have a chance? We'll have to do this ourselves, since it's probably too late to bring the Nazis back, now that we've so carelessly disposed of them.

there's still a few skinheads left in illinois and georgia. dig up a few nazi relics and we could get this thing going again

IL, GA and a lot of other states.

Joebert wrote:

KK wrote:

JJjava wrote:

KK wrote:

JJjava wrote:

KK wrote:

Joebert wrote:

More people were killed by us going in more of our troops were killed than died in the 9/11 attack. We pull out and it goes right back where it was before. So what's right about that?

russia replaced germany as the world aggressor after WWII. so what did we accomplish there?

The liberation of Western Europe, South Pacific, Northern Africa, Southeast Asia, etc.

northen africa is muslim, SEA is communist, Europe is socialist. The islands we saved, no one even cares about.

Should we destroy them all now, or do you think Europe might still have a chance? We'll have to do this ourselves, since it's probably too late to bring the Nazis back, now that we've so carelessly disposed of them.

there's still a few skinheads left in illinois and georgia. dig up a few nazi relics and we could get this thing going again

IL, GA and a lot of other states.

All we need now is for somebody like Prescott Bush to finance their wehrmacht for them again.

i want Goebles minister of propoganda position

KK wrote:

i want Goebles minister of propoganda position

OK, it;s yours.

Joebert wrote:

KK wrote:

i want Goebles minister of propoganda position

OK, it;s yours.

now let me find a group to make a scapegoat

Colin Powell told her to say that

I'm glad she's gone. Hope she never comes back.

yangying wrote:

Colin Powell told her to say that

I wonder why Obama didn't tap him for a job.

Joebert wrote:

yangying wrote:

Colin Powell told her to say that

I wonder why Obama didn't tap him for a job.

because he relize dobama was full of it - a little to late though