Albright: Iraq invasion encouraged others

By ALEX NICHOLSON, Associated Press Writer
23 minutes ago

MOSCOW - Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright criticized the U.S. invasion of Iraq, saying Monday it had encouraged Iran and North Korea to push ahead with their nuclear programs.

Albright, who served under President Clinton, said "the message out of Iraq is the wrong one."

"The message out of Iraq is that if you don't have nuclear weapons, you get invaded. If you do have nuclear weapons, you don't get invaded," she said after an investors' conference in Moscow.

Albright visited North Korea in October 2000, becoming the highest-level American official ever to travel to the country. The two nations do not have formal diplomatic relations.

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....who said that the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children during the sanctions was worth it?

Now she's saying that the invasion was a mistake? I guess dropping bombs and artillery isn't as good as starvation and disease?

who has been told that she apologized for that remark and said she never meant to dismiss the death of children. I have posted it so many times on DU I can't keep track. What purpose does it serve to disparage someone with an old and distorted talking point who is saying exactly what needs to be said on foreign policy NOW??

and why blame the rest of the world for the problems of Iraq. It was Iraq who attacked it's neighbors. We should have taken Saddam out the first time we had the chance.How do you give any incentive not to wage war on your neighbors if you simply push them out of the neighboring countries then leave and do nothing. There is no loss for the invading nation, they have no reason not to do it over and over. Personally I think the Middle East should slap sanctions on the US for Invading Iraq this time, unprovoked.