Posted on 03/03/2003 2:03:27 PM PST by GeneD
WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright urged President Bush on Monday to wait longer before attacking Iraq, saying current pressure was forcing Baghdad to disarm.
Albright, who addressed a conference on increasing the number of women in politics, said the buildup of military force in the Middle East has led to new inspections and Iraq's decision to dismantle its outlawed Al Samoud 2 missiles.
"We are actually accomplishing something," said Albright, secretary of state under President Clinton. "The president should take credit for the fact they are disarming."
As an alternative to war, she suggested more intrusive inspections and even the threat to destroy suspected weapons facilities that the government refuses to open to U.N. personnel, the way U.S. and British pilots attack missile sites in the Iraqi no-fly zones.
"The momentum seems to be moving in the direction of war," Albright said. "We might get the war over, but we night not get the postwar over."
She said there has been increased anti-American feelings overseas in response to Bush's Iraq policy. "There must be some way to do what we wanted without alienating everybody," she said.
Albright said her concern about going to war does not mean any support for Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. "I think Saddam Hussein is a terrible dictator," she said. "There's nothing to defend about him. I pity the Iraqi people."
Yeah, Halfbright, that's quite a revelation after your disasterous foreign policy, isn't it? And who is this "We" you are referring to, as YOU certainly had nothing to do with it.
What's this WE stuff, Maddie? YOU and Slick spent eight years avoiding the problem - now let the adults deal with it.
"Who the h311 cares what they think"
Regrettably, the media does, and all the sheeple who listen.
She's wrong, but Bush has waited TOOOOOO long.
"...On Iraq, Albright repeated her preference for a diplomatic solution but said time is running out.Interviewed on CNN's "Late Edition," she said it would probably be "weeks" before the United States launches military strikes against Iraq, but she warned any attacks would be "substantial."
Albright also asserted that the United States can take military action without a U.N. Security Council resolution. "We believe we have the authority for a strike,"! she told CNN from Jerusalem before flying to Kuwait. ..."
Albright Dismisses Critics Of Air Strikes On Iraq
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Wednesday scornfully dismissed countries like France and Russia that oppose military action against Iraq.
"The truth is they have no (other) answers as to how to make (the Iraqis) comply'' with U.N. Security Council disarmament demands, she told a Wednesday night news briefing.
"And the bottom line is that it would be very nice if those who do not support our approach had an approach that worked.''
The United States and Britain were alone when they began the raids on Iraq Wednesday in a "sustained'' effort to degrade its weapons of mass destruction.
That was a stark contrast to the 1991 Gulf War, when the two longtime allies headed a multinational coalition that forced President Saddam Hussein to reverse his occupation of Kuwait.
France, which fought alongside the United States and Britain in 1991 but is now one of Iraq's chief defenders, disassociated itself from the military action and said it could have grave consequences for the Iraqi people.
Russia, Baghdad's other key backer, planned to demand in the U.N. Security Council an immediate halt to air strikes.
Yep. And he's paying for it. Not helping the economy either.
Madeleine "held off" in Rwanda, and the French-supported Hutus massacred 1 million Tutsis. Madeleine didn't even want the term "genocide" to be used because it would have required us to act.
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