MOSTLY FALSE: In foreign policy spat, Sanders suggests Madeleine Albright supported Iraq invasion

[riversedge]

Mostly False
Sanders
"Tell me what Madeleine Albright’s position was on the War on Iraq. I wouldn’t be surprised if she supported it."

— Bernie Sanders on Sunday, February 7th, 2016 in comments on Meet the Press
In foreign policy spat, Bernie Sanders suggests Madeleine Albright supported Iraq invasion


In foreign policy spat, Bernie Sanders suggests Madeleine Albright supported Iraq invasion

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In foreign policy spat, Bernie Sanders suggests Madeleine Albright supported Iraq invasion

By Linda Qiu on Sunday, February 7th, 2016 at 3:32 p.m.

...............Our ruling

Sanders said, "Tell me what Madeleine Albright’s position was on the War in Iraq. ... I wouldn’t be surprised if she supported that war."





While Albright has voiced support for the troops and said she understands the rationale behind the war, her comments suggest she would have rather avoided the invasion.

We rate Sanders’ claim Mostly False.

[HassleCat]

1. How can we tell?

She understands the rationale, but would rather have avoided it. That's not much of an indication either way. Politifact has been very, very eager to confer "mostly false" ratings on Sanders statements. I'm beginning to think Politifact is mostly bogus.

[SamKnause]

2. Miss Madeline preferred the sanctions that killed

500,000 CHILDREN.

Why anyone would defend this monster is beyond me ???

I would have guessed by her past comments that she supported

the war.

It would have been a fair assumption.

[restorefreedom]

14. to me it is equally reprehensible

she supported aggressive action that killed hundres of thousands of innocent civilians.

she cares for human life no more than those who voted for war.

[dogman]

3. This is insane.

He made no claim.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/salute-the-enduring-terribleness-politifactpunditfact

[NurseJackie]

4. I'm seeing a pattern here. It's not looking good.

[cali]

7. Yeah I see a pattern of dog shit lies from politifact. He made no claim

You have to be dishonest as an Alaskan summer's day to assert that saying "I wouldn't be surprised if she supported that war", is a claim that she supported it.

[bettyellen]

11. There is nothing dishonest about an Alaskan summer's day. Are you okay over there?

[cali]

5. That is such dog shit.

He said I wouldn't be surprised if she supported it. He did not fucking claim she supported it.

Fuck the disgusting liars. Hilly dear they give a pass to repeatedly on hold faced lies, deeming them half true.

[Wilms]

9. They lie right to our faces.

And Fact-Free-Fanatics lap it up.

[cali]

10. It's shameful.

[ejbr]

6. She understands the rationale behind the war n/t

[azurnoir]

8. she felt the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children to be "worth it"

On May 12, 1996, Madeleine Albright (then U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations) appeared on a 60 Minutes segment in which Lesley Stahl asked her "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" and Albright replied "we think the price is worth it." Albright wrote later that Saddam Hussein, not the sanctions, was to blame.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iraq#Albright_interview

[hobbit709]

12. Here's an actual quote from Albright that tells you a lot about her.

"What's the point of you saving this superb military for, Colin, if we can't use it?"