‘If I Had to Do It Over Again’

It is amazing that Rice never admits to the invasion of Iraq as a mistake!!! Imagine how far we would be in Afghanistan had we applied those resources used in Iraq there. I don't know how anyone in the Bush administration sleeps at night.

Never in the article does she say the Bush administration made a mistake in invading Iraq. So I suppose to her that was still not a mistake. She still has the blinders on. Imagine how far we would be in Afganistan if we had not entered Iraq!!! Now that war is not going well either.

We would be welcome as liberators, the war would pay for itself with the oil money, we will be out of Iraq in a year or two at most. All this nonsense because we have a President and administration who are ignorant of history, and ignorant of how to govern that part of the world. Rice now admits minor mistakes, because to not admit any would show her to be completely out of touch. The reality is that if this bunch had it to do again, they wouldnt do anything different. They dont care about the trilliions spent on the war, and they dont care about the soldires who have died. To uses Bush's word, they care about the "crusade".

I blame her parents.

i HEARD ON THE NEWS LAST NIGHT THAT THE USE BORROWS HUNDRES OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR FROM OTHER CONTRIES AND IN TURN, JUST TO GIVE ONE EXAMPLE, WE HAVE LOADNED OUT TO PAKISTAN SOME 1.2 BILLION A MONTHS SINCE 9/11? CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN THE LOGIC IN THIS? JUST ONE FURTHER EXPLE OF THE LUNACY WHICH HAS TAKEN PLACE IN THE LAST 7 YEARS !

TOO LATE YOU LYING, CHEATING BIT*H!! ROT IN HELL WITH BUSH, CHENEY AND THE OTHERS!

Rice failed to mention the biggest mistake they made was failing to tell the truth on the progress of the war.I was watching and reading the news every day and it was always different from what Bush was saying Bush seemed to have a magic paint Brush painting a brighter picture than the one the camera took.Since then I have no faith in anything Bush says. Dom Dunedin Fl.

TOO LATE YOU LYING, CHEATING BIT*H!!

Rice is an idiot follower of the neo-Cons that have no interest in understanding the past. They have a vision of the future and it doesn't matter to them what the cost is to the average American consumer sucking up the half trillion dollar cost of the war or the dead and mamed soliders: it's all collateral damage to them...... This country needs to stop screwing the people of other nations all to ensure Wealth and Power still has access to their markets for exploitation. We've been doing it for decades and Americans need to understand we have become the big bully on the block: well, bully's get their due sooner or later....

Unbelievable! So just a little mistake in not doing their homework regarding Iraq huh? Bush, Cheney, Rice and the rest of their neo-conservative miscreants have earned their place in history, simply be being part of the "worst" administartion in history. The American people can never let something like this disastrous mistake happen again! It will take decades to try and correct the disastrous mistake they have wrought upon America and the rest of the free world.

Jamie

Bull Crap??? that is the kind of thing you do BEFORE you sacrifice 4,000 young soldiers and one million Iraqi citizens. Condi Rice, George Bush and Dick Cheney WILL rot in Hell for what they have done to that nation and ours???

Use that money to improve our nation. I hope Bush gets his vetos showd really deep UP his... He's a moron with the IQ of a carrot. Dunking billions in Iraq when that money is needed here. Screw that country, those are people that have been hating each other and hating the US since they were born, several generations over. Right now, Bush should get impeached for intentionally lying to The People and plunging the Nation into a conflict that yields bills and more bills.

The young people who died in Iraq didn't get a chance to learn over time. How could she still be so self-righteous and confident when admiting mistakes that caused people's lives. That is not confidence any more, that is arrogance and cold-heartedness.

I wonder if she goes to sleep at night and dream about the 20 year old young man who died in the war, partly because of their failure to fully understand a country before sending young people there to fight. She should be more careful, reflective, and not so confident because what she does and said literally affects people's life. It really offends me to hear her say that these things take time to learn. There is no second chance to the dead people, there shouldn't one for the decision maker too.

I'd really like to know what she thinks about before she falls alseep at night. Interesting how seemingly quickly she gives up "one" thing they would've done better in Iraq. There's alot more behind the "one". To me that comment reflects the point of the article, that they never really thought about how to conduct these relations within Iraq. The way she states it I read as she's still not sure she knows the meaning of what she's saying. It sounds like a teacher asking a student how ready for the test are you and the student replies with a well constructed answer of how important the test is, given the context of the relative weight of the score as compared to the final grade for the class, without telling the teacher they haven't studied for it yet.

Unbelievable...and a sad commentary on an administration of "learning on the job" appointments. From FEMA heads with absolutely no background in emergency management to a Secretary of State that was ignorant of documented, factual history.

Had Ms. Rice read the article "Iraq's Unruly Century" (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/unruly.html) in the Smithsonian Magazine, she might gleaned enough wisdom to have saved us billions of dollars and thousands of lives. Although the article was published in May, 2003, it still provided insight into the obstacles faced by the U.S. in Iraq. It would have been even better had she exhibited a level of concern and sought such information prior to the start of the war in March, 2003.

Unfortunately, while we readily acknowledge that we want intelligent, educated, experienced and wise people to be our doctors, financial advisors, airline pilots and so forth, we fail to recognize or appreciate how vital those attributes are in the world of politics. Electing an ???average??? (read: ???C student???) President without those qualities guarantees that the appointments will be equally ???average??? and I have no doubt that the historical assessment of this administration, both politically and fiscally, will be an ???F???.

Unbelievable...and a sad commentary on an administration of "learning on the job" appointments. From FEMA heads with absolutely no background in emergency management to a Secretary of State that was ignorant of documented, factual history.

Had Ms. Rice read the article "Iraq's Unruly Century" (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/unruly.html) in the Smithsonian Magazine, she might gleaned enough wisdom to have saved us billions of dollars and thousands of lives. Although the article was published in May, 2003, it still provided insight into the obstacles faced by the U.S. in Iraq. It would have been even better had she exhibited a level of concern and sought such information prior to the start of the war in March, 2003.

Unfortunately, while we readily acknowledge that we want intelligent, educated, experienced and wise people to be our doctors, financial advisors, airline pilots and so forth, we fail to recognize or appreciate how vital those attributes are in the world of politics. Electing an ???average??? (read: ???C student???) President without those qualities guarantees that the appointments will be equally ???average??? and I have no doubt that the historical assessment of this administration, both politically and fiscally, will be an ???F???.

Rice has forgotten the ugly past of being black in America. She is now doing it to people of Iraq by imposing American standard onto another cultural group that is totaling different from both the White and Black Americans.
She is now the BULLY and not the victim, in her rightful state of mind.
She is now the BULLY and not the victim, in her rightful state of mind.


She is now the BULLY and not the victim, in her rightful state of mind.
e victim, in her rightful state of mind.

She is now the BULLY and not the victim, in her rightful state of mind.


She is now the BULLY and not the victim, in her rightful state of mind.