Madeleine Albright: Iraq War Sparked Iran, N. Korea

NewsMax ^ | Monday, June 19, 2006 3:36 p.m. EDT

[fuyb]

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright criticized the U.S. invasion of Iraq, saying Monday it had encouraged Iran and North Korea to push ahead with their nuclear programs.

Albright, who served under President Clinton, said "the message out of Iraq is the wrong one."

"The message out of Iraq is that if you don't have nuclear weapons, you get invaded. If you do have nuclear weapons, you don't get invaded," she said after an investors' conference in Moscow.

Albright visited North Korea in October 2000, becoming the highest-level American official ever to travel to the country. The two nations do not have formal diplomatic relations.

Albright also said Russia did not deserve membership in the Group of Eight major industrialized nations because it did not meet all the requirements.

"In terms of some criteria on open society, democracy, there are more and more questions, frankly," said Albright, who is now a business consultant.

In particular, she said Russia's state-controlled gas monopoly OAO Gazprom was being used for political ends and appeared to be "operating less as a gas company than as a state structure."

Moscow's reliability as an energy supplier was called into question this year when it briefly cut off natural gas supplies to several European countries in a dispute with Ukraine. The incident rattled European policy makers, who also accused Russia of using its substantial oil and gas resources as a political weapon.

Russia, which was admitted to the G-8 during the Clinton presidency, is hosting the group's summit in St. Petersburg next month.

© 2006 Associated Press.

[fuyb]

Please! The reason we have a nuclear Iran and N.K. today is because of you and your administration actions and policies If I remember correctly, you even went as far as to give Iran the blueprints to build a nuclear bomb and the capability of N.K. to deliver one.

Go berry put your head in the sand and shut up.

[colonialhk]

She is a nutbag

[IGOTMINE]

No. Nutbags serve a useful purpose.

[KillTime]

This hag is just trying to re-write history. Won't work these days as hard as they try.

[lormand]

She is just trying to cover her large lard @ss.

[cmsgop]

She's a DOUCHEBAG !

[river rat]

Stupid, lying fat bitch, covering her own failed Diplomacy....
Won't she ever go away?

Semper Fi

[martinidon]

PLEASE, I beg you, NO PICTURES!

[T'wit]

Madeleine Albright spearheaded the successful Clinton Administration effort to give nuclear technology to North Korea -- an idea so traitorous and stupid, I can't think of a foreign policy blunder ever to equal it.

[Beowulf]

Maddy is a blithering idiot. Clintoon stated Kim Sung Mentally Ill on his way to nuke town, and the Iranian "students" (of which one now leads Iran) are courtesy of Jimmah Carter.What a nutjob. Heard the little troll leg presses 400 pounds.

[Incorrigible]

A toast to tyranny

[debg]

These accusations just cannot stand. The administration HAS to rebuke these types of statements and do so loudly.

[mystery-ak]

a nutbag with gawdy jewelry...

[TomGuy]

Mattie 'the maid' has spoken: "Mint on your pillow?"

[Alex Murphy]

Alex Murphy: Madeleine Albright's Face Sparked Downfall of Clinton, Gore, Kerry, Dean, Etc Etc Etc

No pictures, as requested. I don't want to break the Internet.

[PISANO]

Simple Democrat talking point.

All things bad no matter how long ago they started have their ROOTS with the Presidency of George W Bush!!

Historical facts mean nothing!

[Popman]

Don't Clinton administration officals ever retire and just shut up ?

[edpc]

She's got the look, but not the wisdom.

[Incorrigible]

Mattie 'the maid' has spoken: "Mint on your pillow?"

 

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[sig226]

"The message out of Iraq is that if you don't have nuclear weapons mess with a Republican president, you get invaded. If you do have intimidate a cowardly democrat administration and threaten to build nuclear weapons, you don't get invaded get money and knowledge to build nuclear weapons whilst starving and murdering your own people," she said after an investors' conference in Moscow.

I fixed it. All better. :)

Bah bye.