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Bush wrong on Iraq: Rumsfeld
[Iran Press TV] Former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld says his commander-in-chief, George W. Bush, was wrong to push "democracy" on Iraq.It was a case of trying to fit ballet slippers on a horse, but if it had worked it would have put an outpost of rationality in the heart of the world of non-reason, or more accurately anti-reason. "I'm not one who thinks that our particular template of democracy is appropriate for other countries at every moment of their histories. The idea that we could fashion a democracy in Iraq seemed to me unrealistic," Rumsfeld said in a wide-ranging interview with The Times of London. Rumsfeld, one of the chief architects of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, said he became "concerned" when he first heard the idea of a democratic Iraq, floated by former president Bush. The former Pentagon chief also criticized President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... 's approach towards the ISIL terrorist group, controlling large parts of Iraq and Syria. "The movement for a caliphate, the movement against nation states is central and fundamental, and no one's talking about it," Rumsfeld said, referring to the ISIL's self-proclaimed caliphate in Iraq and Syria. Posted by: Fred 2015-06-10 |
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