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.

[BenLurkin]

LOL!

[DoughtyOne]

Wow, this woman is incredibly forgetful.

[nonliberal]

Clintler's TREASON sparked North Korea. If this whore doesn't think that missile technology we gave to China didn't find its way to Kim (I'm so ronery) Jong Il, then she is smoking crack.

[HoosierHawk]

You nailed it, Sig.

[True Republican Patriot]

bump!

[Jameison]

Thank you.
No need for further comment, except to send that swiftly to the RNC.

[TheBattman]

Just further evidence that Albright has absolutely no brain....

NK has been a major problem for far longer than even Gulf War I. And well - if I remember correctly - the major problems with Iran started under Nut-job Jimmy....

[Arizona Carolyn]

If they do, it'll be a first. Everytime she or any of the Clintonista's get away with these comments it only further emboldens them.

[Ax]

You KNOW you're in trouble when the Albanians dis you. They sure got her number at Rambouillet.

[marktwain]

"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."

If this is true, and there may be some truth in it, then the Clinton administration started the trend with their attack on Yugoslavia, against the NATO charter.

[Radix]

Madeleine Albright

 

I started off this post intending to copy paste a few of Albright's inconsistencies.

 

I might as well paste the entire initial post.

 

This douche bag is preaching to Americans  again? Americans are encouraging nuclear weapon development by throwback nations who have no understanding or interest whatsoever about Jeffersonian Democracy? Is that what she is saying?

 

The woman who spent the first 70 lying years of her life not knowing that she was a Jew? Who does she think she is?  A Yankees fan? Hillary Clinton?

 

Go away you lying, hypocritical piece of human fecal material!

 

 

 

 

[DAC22]

"And the IMMEDIATE Republican response to these rediculous/misguided/self-aggrandizing; if not lying assertions passing for 'political wisdom' can be found where?"


I found it!

http://simplythebest.net/sounds/WAV/sound_effects_WAV/sound_effect_WAV_files/crickets_1.wav

[rjp2005]

What a crock. North Korea armed during the Clinton administration and Iran developed their nuclear program under your watch. You are squarely responsible, Ms. Albright.

[4yearlurker]

Still doing damage control for the Clintons. If stupid were electricity,this woman would be a powerhouse!

[JimSEA]

Albright visited North Korea in October 2000, becoming the highest-level American official ever to travel to the country.

This woman is an embarrassment. Our problems with N Korea have maintained about the same level of intensity sin the Korean War with the Clinton Nuke giveaway the issue that brought about this current crisis. Nothing much has changed since 1979 vis a vis Iran except their 20 year quest for the bomb is beginning to bear fruit.

[Jorge]

I can't believe how stupid and naive this woman is.

[PzLdr]

If there REALLY was truth in labeling, her name would be Madeline Halfbright [ actually, Madeline Full Lunar Eclipse].

[Vision]

This woman is a freakin' idiot.

[jdogbearhunter]

True Genius

[cricket]

LOL! good one. . .bump for the repub response from our Leadership. . .going 'chirp' in the night :^). . .

Rings all too true; for sure. . .

(meantime, thanks. . .will save that site for future reference. . .)