Madeleine Albright says Republicans wanted war with Iraq in '98

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/103-03272006-632480.html ^ | March 27, 2005

[dhs12345]

But isn't it great -- the other half will know she is an idiot and point this out to the "sheeple" half.

[Loyal Buckeye]

If I had a $1 for every time a RAT criticized GHWB for not finishing the job, I would have a lot of $1's.

[satchmodog9]

I have spelled it correctly in the past and had it pulled.

[GretchenM]

Maddy is not qualified to comment on this subject.

[ErnBatavia]

Well, some of us know what you meant (and fully agree)!!

:)~

[ApplegateRanch]

The thing is if Clinton had done that Gore would be president today.

And if President & COmmander in Chief, George Herbert Walker Bush, had pushed on to full victory, it would ALL be moot.

[logician2u]

Those quotes you posted are all interesting and demonstrate the utter failure of Democrats to approach foreign policy as anything other than a partisan exercise.

But why didn't you post this one from Madame Albright, uttered in her "60 Minutes" interview in May 1996:

Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.

Of course, we're continuing to pay an ever-increasing price as a result of an irrational Iraq policy that began with Bush I and continued unchanged under Clinton/Albright in spite of what some Republicans think.

[marron]

I'll admit it, it was me.

After watching Saddam all during the nineties, by the time Bush entered office I was hoping we would go in and take him down. I took a few remarks Bush made during the campaign as indication that he was looking for ways to settle things with Saddam once and for all, and I seriously hoped I had read him right.

The reason was easy. I watched as the UN cranked out resolution after resolution, it was a cottage industry over there, no one expected Saddam to respond to any of them. I watched Saddam firing on our planes on a more or less daily basis by the end of the decade.

I watched as Saddam rolled into Kurdistan and rounded up all of the Kurds who had been working with us (working from a list). Clinton had seen him coming and pulled our CIA out days before, but the people who trusted us were left behind.

I watched as France, China, Russia signed multi-billion dollar deals with him that were meaningless unless (a) the sanctions were lifted and (b) Saddam were still in office. This told me that Saddam had bought the Security Council.

I saw indications already that the UN Oil for Food was being scammed, meaning that he had the UN on his payroll.

And I observed the drumbeat of stories about the supposed millions of Iraqi children dead due to sanctions. I knew that this was a PR campaign, and I knew it meant that they were preparing the ground for Saddam to emerge from sanctions. Which meant that Bush had no choice but to either watch while Saddam climbed out of his box, or look for a way to overthrow him.

I'm nobody, I'm just a news junkie, but I expected war for years before it happened. The only question in my mind was if it would be on our terms, or his.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Tell the cleaning woman to scrub the floors and hush. BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

[MinorityRepublican]

Certainly, I cannot forget Bill Clinton when he said that.

[Verginius Rufus]

It's just something about years ending in '98 that makes red-blooded Americans want to go to war.

1798: the Quasi-War with France (Federalists in charge)

1898: The Spanish-American War (Republicans in charge)

[Peach]

I hadn't heard that particular Albright quote. Thanks for posting that.