Condoleezza Rice regrets there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq

In an appearance on ABC's "The View" this morning, just-departed secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she regretted that faulty intelligence had reported that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but had no regrets that U.S. troops toppled dictator Saddam Hussein from power.

Rice announced recently that she hopes to return to Stanford University as a political science professor after eight controversial years in the Bush administration -- first as national security adviser and then as secretary of State.

She demurred on questions about whether she voted for Barack Obama, the first African American elected president, although the day after the election she expressed pride, as a black American, that the nation had reached that milestone.



Rice defended George W. Bush against charges that the federal response to Hurricane Katrina was flawed because Bush didn't want to help the black victims:

What really did make me angry was the implication that some people made that somehow President Bush allowed this to happen because these people were black. And for somebody to say that about the president of the United States, a president of the United States who I know well and a president of the United States who is my friend, I was appalled and I couldn't believe people didn't challenge it.

But Rice, taking pride in the administration's relief aid for Africa, conceded that Katrina was "for my mind, one of the greatest disasters for the administration and for the country."

-- Johanna Neuman

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Comments

[RIP GOP 2008]

Thee is nothing to regret aside from the Vice President and Secretary of Defense's manipulation of intelligence data enabling the corrupt administration to contrive a false threat thrusting us into a dangerous and costly war. The increased global hatred of Americans is something we must now just learn to live with.

[Alessandro Machi]

CondoLeeza Rice was on vacation when Hurricane Katrina happened. At one point, not only did she receive private tennis lessons from a tennis star, more shaky was her shopping for very high end shoes a few days into the Katrina disaster.

Really an appalling lack of empathy throughout the entire upper echelon of George Bushes inner circle.

I'm not saying it's going to get better now, but Ms. Rice defending George Bush about Katrina is kind of silly since she was just as lax in her ability to value the import of what was going on.

Other nations offered to help us. I think Condoleeza would have been responsible for fielding those calls. I don't recall too much aid coming from other countries, certainly not right away, when it was needed most.

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[Freedom Eagle]

How do you regret "faulty intelligence had reported that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq" when your administration made that intelligence up?