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Wow, so much hate for Rice. How about focusing on what she actually said in the interview, which I found insightful and on target about the *current* situation? What she did or didn’t do under Bush is not the point of the interview, other than a reference point for her previous foreign policy experience. I love all the Monday morning quarterbacking from a bunch of people who never had to make life and death decisions.

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You say that as if the Bush administration made an accdental bad decision in Iraq, rather than deciding in Jan 2001 to invade it eventually and then using the War on Terror as a way to hype the people up in support.

The UN set up a special inspection force, led by Brix who was no fan of Hussein, and they had gone in in late 2002 and announced they found nothing. It was not the case that we didnt know there were no WMDs. It was the case that Bush and cronies could construct a logic how there might be anyway to get what they always wanted to do.

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