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.

[colorado tanker]

Just how did this supposedly work? The NK's somehow knew Dubya would invade Iraq in 2003 so they built a bomb years before, during the Clinton administration??

Mad Maddy really went off the deep end on this one.

[OldFriend]

Still smoking crack.

[sig226]

No blood for Il.
8<)

[FlashBack]

...said Albright, who is now a business consultant.
She must be a consultant for the Landfill with all the garbage she's trying to pedal!

[kcvl]

EXACTLY!

That photo is the best example of the Clinton administration possible. A bunch of loons pretending to run the country.

And disgraced Sandy 'pants' Burglar who got off scott free as usual with the Clinton cronies.

[redstatesrock]

She's in denial. The stench of failure is all over this broad.

[new cruelty]

[Mia T]

HILLARY GOES NUCLEAR
PROLIFERATION IN THE AGE OF CLINTON_bump

ALBRIGHT INDICTS CLINTON FOR TERRORISM FAILURE (and doesn't even know it)

ALBRIGHT: 'Bin Laden and his Network Declared War on the United States and Struck First and We Have Suffered Deeply'

[Mia T]

Has anyone come across audio or video of this latest albright gem?

[GregH]

Haha.. the incident of where she was mistook for a hotel maid is still funny.

[dancusa]

When we last met on this subject, then-Secretary of State Maddie Albright had been mistaken for a hotel maid by Albanian diplomats and launched into a tirade of four-letter words to express her outrage. I suggested she might seek employment with the likes of Holiday Inn after her government job, but I forgot that housekeepers need to demonstrate at least a small degree of courtesy before they're hired.

[Allegra]

"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.

Gee, Madeleine Not-so-Bright...it seems like you COMPLETELY misread "the message out of Iraq."

Never quite learned to read, did you?

[GregH]

'When we last met on this subject'

I dont understand this part..is this a quote from somewhere.

'but I forgot that housekeepers need to demonstrate at least a small degree of courtesy before they're hired'

Haha... i dont think overpaid fat cows are in much demand as housekeepers.

[PGalt]

Outstanding FReeper comments on this anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-life Democrat Crime Syndicate operative.

Culture of Treason bump!

[MinorityRepublican]

North Korea and Iran don't dare to test nuclear bombs because President Bush is willing to use his power to take them out.

[gakrak]

No Dimbright, Bil Clintoon did that along with giving away the farm. Amen.

[dancusa]

Yes, it is quoted from Joe Kovacs (World Net Daily). That is why I put it in italics.