Albright warns dark days are ahead in Iraq

[ckramer]

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright issued a stern warning Saturday about the continuing U.S. role in Iraq, saying "there are no good options at this point and the worst days may be ahead of us."

Albright, secretary of state under President Clinton, said the March 2003 invasion of Iraq has led to a series of misfortunes that should have been anticipated.

"Instead of winning friends for America, it has poisoned our relations with many countries in the Mideast and the Muslim world," Albright told a conference on the role of citizens in shaping the nation's image abroad.

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[saltpoint]

1. 'Was never an Albright fan, but damn, she sure looks good next to --

-- Kindasleazy Rice.

Jesus, what I wouldn't give for a decent Cabinet and a good president...

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. I just wish that Albright had gone for the throat during the 9/11 hearings

She was too placated.

[saltpoint]

4. Have to agree. A missed chance.

[shance]

3. Well Ms. Albright, how do you now feel about the 2 million children

that were killed by the sanctions we imposed on Iraq, in which you mention a few years back that why yes, it was "worth it".

Were all the dead American soldiers worth it? Why don't you have the guts to actually say that we need to leave Iraq?

Do any of our ex Clintonite leaders have any resemblance of a spine?

[Maccagirl]

5. I agree

Ms.Albright should keep her piehole shut if she doesn't have anything contructive and intelligent to say. She and Sandy Berger made Warren Christopher look like a radical. Granted, I have no idea what they were like mano-a-mano, but as problem-solvers and communicators they were a disaster.

[UpInArms]

7. you beat me to it shance

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1084

"We Think the Price Is Worth It"
Media uncurious about Iraq policy's effects- there or here

Extra! November/December 2001

By Rahul Mahajan


Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.

--60 Minutes (5/12/96)

Then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's quote, calmly asserting that U.S. policy objectives were worth the sacrifice of half a million Arab children, has been much quoted in the Arabic press. It's also been cited in the United States in alternative commentary on the September 11 attacks (e.g., Alexander Cockburn, New York Press, 9/26/01).

But a Dow Jones search of mainstream news sources since September 11 turns up only one reference to the quote--in an op-ed in the Orange Country Register (9/16/01). This omission is striking, given the major role that Iraq sanctions play in the ideology of archenemy Osama bin Laden; his recruitment video features pictures of Iraqi babies wasting away from malnutrition and lack of medicine (New York Daily News, 9/28/01). The inference that Albright and the terrorists may have shared a common rationale--a belief that the deaths of thousands of innocents are a price worth paying to achieve one's political ends--does not seem to be one that can be made in U.S. mass media.

...more...

Is it all really worth, Madeleine?

[Voltaire99]

9. Talk about the banality of evil! Well does she know the darkness.

For her role in those merciless deaths, Albright remains one of the most despicable of the Clinton crowd: unrepentant, unredeemed.

[BlueIris]

6. Kick. I still revere and respect Ms. Albright.

I hope readers here are taking her comments seriously.

[entanglement]

10. How can you respect someone who

cheered the death of 500,000 Iraqi children?

[Pepperbelly]

11. You know ... if you

take the number of Iraqis "killed" by Clinton, Bush I, Bush II, and Saddam, it is a wonderment that there are enough left for an insurgency. :evilgrin:

[tom_paine]

8. Dark days are ahead for Amerika, as well

Ever since the Busheviks killed the Old USA and replaced it with THE PARTY and Imperial Amerika, we are tenuously holding onto hat was.

everything good we have is from the old USA.

Everything bad is new from Imperial Amerika.

That may be a generalization, but, yes, it's just that simple.

We can hold onto the shreds of Old, Free America for awhile longer, but the Busheviks are destroying the last remnants as quickly as they can.