Former US security advisor rebukes administration over Iraq invasion

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041226/pl_afp/usiraqbrzezinski&cid=1521&ncid=1473

WASHINGTON, Dec 26 (AFP) - Former US national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski strongly criticised the American-led invasion of Iraq (news - web sites) and said the US administration would have to scale down its ambitions for Iraq's future.

Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, expressed support for the invasion on the same CNN programme, but said the US administration had misjudged the difficulty of rebuilding Iraq and guiding it to democracy.

Brzezinski, the national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter in the 1980s, made a scathing assessment of the US-led invasion in March 2003 and ensuing occupation after ousting Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) as Iraqi leader.

"I personally think it was not worth it, in the sense that we have paid a high price in blood. And it's increasing. You cannot underestimate the suffering that this has already produced to tens of thousands of American families."

He said tens of thousands of Iraqis have died and added: "We're spending billions of dollars, and we have isolated ourselves internationally.

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[acmavm]

1. The more you try to tell the bush* administration anything, the more

they dig in their heels and fight reality. This is just one of many many people with far greater intelligence pointing out the obvious.

[Mokito]

3. And the people telling him aren't exactly peaceniks either.

That goes to show how badly chimp f*ck*d up.

[shanti]

5. f*ck*ed up?

come on...he did it on purpose! if anyone f*uck*ed up, it was our side, who didn't call him on it sooner!

[pretzel4gore]

6. right..he stole another election!

some think iraq was for the oil.. but the bush coup is being run on the media mainly, and that's what iraq does, fill airtime...bushinc merely has to expose some damn thing to keep the overthrow of USA legal government out of the news....911 basically was for same reason, anthrax and the washington sniper, even the blowup of space shuttle neatly bought the bush criminals time....just the news that the bush admin was running 4 wargame exercises at the moment the WTC disaster began unfolding, and that this news is still unknown by most americans, says it all....

[Streetdoc270]

2. So where were these people BEFORE the election?

Its amazing to me that Billy Bob and Billy Jo Redneck are so afraid of two people getting married that they would re-elect the most incompetent person since..... well EVER!

[Just Me]

4. WHAT IF,...the roles were changed and WE were the recipients,...

,...of someone else's FORCE OF THEIR WILL UPON US, in the name of "freedom" and "democracy" and *wink* *wink* a "free market".

We have it in our heads that we are too good to be wrong or to be hurt. We are brainwashed. We are so adamant about our system that any challenge to it makes us freak out. Well,...when I say
"we",...I mean the 51 watershed.

We "49ers", which is an historically aware minor minority,...will both color and inspire and move a change all our predecessors charged.

Just watch us shine!!!

We can't help it.

[teryang]

7. Interesting rating on "bad news"

Whenever people hear what they don't want to hear they rate it down on Yahoo.

Assuming for the moment that it isn't a bunch of guys in the basement at the NSA, this means the Yahoo viewers who do it are conciously obscurantists who seek to deny reality. How convenient for all of us.

[Cooley Hurd]

8. Iraq war is lost...

There is NO way we can now win this war - militarily or politically. No matter the outcome of the election, Iraq will be a nation in flux for a decade (or more) to come. So many (Iraqi and American) have died in vain.

If someone can point out the error of my statement, please do because I see no way we can prevail...:(