Condi Rice: 'Saddam Hussein Was A Threat'

[onehandle]

Source: Yahoo News/Huffington Post

Referencing a statement by former President George W. Bush that framed the perceived threat from Iraq in the context of the 9/11 attacks, O'Donnell said to Rice that "Iraq had nothing to do with September 11th." Rice responded, "after September 11th, of course you look at threats differently, your country has just been attacked, you know that you cannot allow threats to materialize."

She continued:
Rice: "If one looks at what happened to us on September 11th, we didn't connect the dots, there was a threat materializing that we didn't respond to. Saddam Hussein had been a threat from the time that he invaded Iran in the late 1980s through 1991, when in fact he went into Kuwait, dragging us into war. We thought he had reconstituted his weapons of mass destruction. And in a context in which terrorism and weapons of mass destruction was a nexus that we could not allow, we decided that this was a threat that had to be dealt with."

When O'Donnell questioned Rice further about the matter, Rice was insistent that Hussein posed a threat:
Rice: "Saddam Hussein was a threat, he had used weapons of mass destruction.....you have not focused on the fact that Saddam Hussein had been a threat to the United States of America, to the Middle East, since he invaded Iran. Now we made the wrong call then, and we supported him against Iran. He then became a more monstrous threat. After 1991, shooting at our aircraft in the no-fly zone that was supposed to be keeping his air force on the ground. Trying to reconstitute his weapons of mass destruction. Breaking out of the sanctions through the scandalous oil for food program. Yes he was a threat. With or without mature weapons of mass destruction, he was a threat. And nothing of value is ever won without sacrifice, of course the lives lost will never be brought back. But an Iraq that is not a threat to invade its neighbors, not a threat to reconstitute its weapons of mass destruction, not a threat to pay Palestinian terrorists as suicide bombers, that is going to be a better Iraq and a better Middle East. And so, in fact, I think that what we did in Iraq will be demonstrated by history to be an important part, an important pillar, of a new Middle East."

O'Donnell said that Hussein was not a threat to the U.S., and Rice responded, "you may not view him as a threat. Most of the world did."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20110506/cm_huffpost/858407_201105060322

---

Still lying and trying to salvage her reputation after all these years.

Rice was one of the most worthless 'Bushies.' It was her under her direction as National Security Advisor that they stopped looking for active dangers from terrorists months before 9/11.

[Atman]

1. They only quote Rice; the actual questions LO'D asked were totally ignored.

Figures. :eyes:

[KeepItReal]

2. Lawrence should have asked Condi why North Korea was allowed to build nukes

(real WMD's) on W's watch.

They were part of the axis of evil and even threaten their neighbors too.

[Lint Head]

3. She will never be anything more than what her war criminal life has dished out.

[No Elephants]

9. So far, her war criminal life seems to have done well by her.

[Javaman]

4. LOL

:rofl:

truly amazing, isn't it?

morons* "wife"/ water carrier/ apologizer tries to make the case that saddam, who was glad handing repukes no so long ago, was actually a threat as well.

Priceless, simply priceless.

This is like someone going up to John Glenn and saying, "yeah, well, I drive my car around the block once, how about that!!".

what a fucking transparent moron.

I wonder how pickles feels about rice checks little bleeding heart routine, but then again it's pretty well known that pickles hates george w. moron*.

[hayu_lol]

5. Kinda Sleezy continues to lie and demonstrate her ignorance...

of what the containment of Sadaam accomplished. She was probably too busy at that time buying fancy shoes.

Her knowledge of military matters is/was abysmal.

[Javaman]

12. I used to call her...

condi, I have never ever had an original idea ever, rice.

:rofl:

[placton]

6. Hey, the OTHER Nazis

contintued to cling to their big lies, right to the end. So why not this Bushy?

[yourout]

7. To us getting the oil underneath him.

[annabanana]

8. She should be imprisoned at The Hague

She's a torturer.

[OnyxCollie]

17. She should

but our current president would like you to continue believing the Big Lie.

BTW, did you hear that Osama bin Laden has been killed? There's no pictures and no body, but trust us anyway.

[24601]

29. Who did she torture? If she didn't, who did the National Security

Staff or State Department torture?

[callous taoboy]

10. That whole period of time was so full of deception, watching our "leaders" lie daily.

As soon as bush ordered the invasion I KNEW that we were being worked. My gut told me that this was a coup extraordinaire.

[deminks]

11. "Well, he did threaten my daddy" Chimperor 2002

http://articles.cnn.com/2002-09-27/politics/bush.war.talk_1_homeland-security-senators-from-both-parties-republican-phil-gramm?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS

[No Elephants]

13. LOL!

(That's really the only reaction deep bullshit and/or deep willful stupidity warrants. Anything else gives it way too much dignity.)

[fatbuckel]

14. The headline is right. SH was a threat...to her job. Dubya wanted him, go get him or you`re fired.

[russspeakeasy]

15. Why is she in the news? She should be in jail.

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. Wasn't North Korea a bigger threat at the time?

[byronius]

18. Her appearance on Thirty Rock has ruined the show for me.

Didn't watch it. Won't watch it ever again. Fuck whoever made that decision.

There will be no rehabilitation for these darkhearts.

[joanbarnes]

19. CondiSLEEZA makes me retch. What a Bitch!

[closeupready]

20. Bullshit.

:mad:

[sakabatou]

21. A complete liar and no respect in her interview

[Roland99]

22. She disagrees with herself! >>>>>

and Colin Powell and Gen. Shinseki and Gen. Shalikashvili, too.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6456.htm

[gratuitous]

23. What's the problem here?

The United States is entitled, due to its exceptional exceptionality, to kill anyone anywhere it deems in its exclusive exceptional judgment to be a "threat." We can do it in large ways, like Iraq in 2003, or smaller ways, and nobody had better say anything.

[on point]

24. Saddam was NOT a threat to us, but Condi is a war criminal!

[24601]

30. He should have been taken out the 1st time Iraq shot at a OSW or

ONW aircraft.

Please tell us how Saddam was a better humanitarian than say, Libya's K-Daffy.

[Malikshah]

25. Not as big as you or your bosses, you poor excuse for a human.

Not as big a threat by a country mile.

[classysassy]

26. A concerted attempt to keep the Muslims in line.

The Bush gang wanted to keep the Arabs/Muslims in line in order to steal their natural resources(mostly oil.The reason Bush #1 started the first Iraq invasion was to keep those pipe lines open,anyone that stood in the way were disposed of.We should keep all of the events of that war in context,would 911 have happened if we had stayed out of Iraq?We make enemies through out the Muslim world and expect them to respect us,we need to respect the rights of others before we demand they respect us.

[nashville_brook]

27. Frantic Bush-Doctrining. "Rules don't apply if you're really, really scared."

[unkachuck]

28. "Saddam Hussein was a threat..."

....no, your administration was the threat, saddam was an inconvenience....we ain't gonna let you re-write history; wouldn't be prudent....