Albright slams Bush on French radio

Expatica ^ | 10/16/2003 | AFP

[yonif]

PARIS, Oct 16 (AFP) - US President George W. Bush's foreign policy "is not good for America, not good for the world," Madeleine Albright, the former US secretary of state under Bill Clinton's presidency, told French radio Thursday.

In an interview with the Europe 1 station Albright heavily criticised the actions of the Republican leadership that replaced the Democratic administration she worked for, and notably the "chaos" that reigns in Iraq.

"It's difficult to be in France and criticise my government. But I'm doing so because Bush and the people working for him have a foreign policy that is not good for America, not good for the world," she said.

Albright, who was US ambassador to the United Nations before becoming the first woman secretary of state in 1996, was in Paris to promote the French launch of her autobiography, "Madame Secretary: A Memoir".

She said that UN chief Kofi Annan, who has come out against a US draft resolution on Iraq currently before the UN Security Council, was the "best secretary general since the creation" of the world body.

She added that France was "a little bit right" to oppose Washington's go-it-alone stance, but she warned: "It's method is not always the best."

On Iraq, Albright said "I fear that there really is chaos there. We don't know what's going to happen. One or two Americans a day are killed."

Bush's insistence before and after the war that Saddam Hussein had ties to Osama bin Laden failed to convince her - "I didn't really think that there was a link" - but, she said, the situation was getting to a point that Iraq was becoming a magnet for anti-US militants.

"Now there's chaos, now all the terrorists are coming to kill an American."

Even if ridding Iraq of its "terrible" leader had its merits, Albright added: "I don't understand why the war happened now. I would have liked to see us concentrate on Afghanistan."

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Somebody needs to stuff a sock in that bag's mouth.

[Semper Paratus]

Has anybody ever spotted Albright and Helen Thomas in the same room?

[gipper81]

Ok, the French are listening to her. Is there proof anyone else is?

[SunStar]

Half-bright continues to poop backwards...

[fml]

"Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face."

Madeline Albright, Clinton's Secretary of State. Feb 18, 1998.

"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."

Madeline Albright. Nov. 10, 1999.

[Peach]

I know you've noted that when President Bush leaves the country, the liberals come out of the woodwork to slam him.

Here is Madeline Albright in all her Anti-American glory.

I so wish the reporter had thought to ask Albright if she thought we should have focused on Afghanistan first (leaving the impression taking on Iraq at a later date would have been alright) what she thinks the outcome would be that is different from today. Does she think the terrorists wouldn't be attacking us if we'd waited a year or so?

[Choose Ye This Day]

The newest (and oldest) Dixie Chick!

Somebody fire up their Photoshop!

[Alissa]

This is truly unpatriotic - I don't give a damn what the liberals say! It is despicable.

[Plutarch]

"It's difficult to be in France and criticise my government...

As soon as her lips start moving she is lying. The only thing that would give her greater pleasure is toadying up to a Leftist tyrant.

[Plutarch]

"It's difficult to be in France and criticise my government...

As soon as her lips start moving she is lying. The only thing that would give her greater pleasure is toadying up to a Leftist tyrant.

[LLBeet]

She's the worst Sec of State, ever.

[presidio9]

One or two Americans a day are killed."

So, according to Maddie, who turned down the offer of OBL's head on a silver platter, roughly 200-250 soldiers have been killed in Iraq since May 1st? That's news to me and most of leftist demonstrators. Even they don't put the number much higher than 75.

[LuigiBasco]

Correction:
Sock = cock!
That's better.

[nuffsenuff]

Albright added: "I don't understand why the war happened now. I would have liked to see us concentrate on Afghanistan."

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Yeah, and? Hey, Ugly, you don't work for the US government anymore!

[princess leah]

I am so friggin tired of these ex-admin officials who only got their jobs through butt-kissin Clinton TALKING TRASH about our President on Foreign SOIL! She hates his policies so much why doesn't Ms. Allbright just stay away and go live with her French comrades!

[Miss Marple]

Yes, just like this morning Kennedy attacked Bush, who was safely out of DC and on his way to Asia.

Albright - what can I say? If I saw her in an airport, I would have a few words to say to her. She is despicable and incompetent....a deadly combination.

[SolutionsOnly]

Well, I guess the good news here is that she has to go all the way to France to find an audience.

[Peach]

Ditto your words on Albright.

And Clinton telling people he tried to warn President Bush about OBL.

These people are bad for my blood pressure and VERY dangerous to the country. Whatever happened to the rule that partisanship stopped at water's edge.

[Flint]

"Now there's chaos, now all the terrorists are coming to kill an American."

That's the idea. That's the plan. Why doesn't she get it? She is supposed to be smart.

Do you suppose she would feel much better if the Terrorists were packing their gear and coming here to kill people in Kansas City, Phoenix, Atlanta?

[JohnGalt]

CBS' Lesley Stahl used the figure of 500,000 dead when she interviewed Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in 1996. Was such collateral damage worth it? Albright replied, "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price [500,000 dead] - we think the price is worth it."

No matter what one thinks of the Iraqi War on conservative or liberal grounds, the sanction regime of Herr Clinton was immoral and Bush has ended the situtation at a cost of significantly fewer lives.

I really loath Albright.

[.cnI redruM]

Tokyo Rose has returned to the air waves.

[Peach]

LOL.

A friend who is VERY liberal and considers herself French because she was schooled there for a number of years, just came back from 3 weeks in France and said that much to her surprise, they don't hate us at all.

And if anyone would be trying to rattle a few cages and get the French to speak badly about us and about the war in Iraq, it would be this "friend" of mine.

[1Old Pro]

"It's difficult to be in France and criticise my government. But I'm doing so because

Because I need the attention as my life is a failure and if I were successful I'd know enough to shut up.

[Loyal Buckeye]

She said this thing over and over again but she and the Clinton Administration chose to do nothing. Now, she has the audacity to complain that we are doing something about terrorism. What a old bag.

[No Blue States]

"She said that UN chief Kofi Annan, who has come out against a US draft resolution on Iraq currently before the UN Security Council, was the "best secretary general since the creation" of the world body. "

Her nickname of halfbright is highly appropriate.

[eureka!]

The Cleaning Lady is such a classless fraud. Oh, that karma will bite her deceitful b*tt...

[sarasota]

These are the words of a woman who has lost her power and her "underlings", the new young Republicans, are moving her to the backroom. She's become a bitter old woman.

[Constitutional Patriot]

I am so sick of these clintonite trolls spouting off as if ANYTHING they ever did was successful.

Least of all, Halfbright should be the last person to comment on the success of ANTHING!!!

Maybe she can show the slides of her and Kim Jong Il sipping champagne and chuckling while the people (read "slaves") of North Korea were eating their children to stay alive.

[Labyrinthos]

On Iraq, Albright said "I fear that there really is chaos there. We don't know what's going to happen. One or two Americans a day are killed."

Just like in New York City, Philadelphia, Detroit, Miami, Atlanta, Washington DC, etc., etc., etc. Indeed, I wonder how many LEO's here in America died in the line of duty in the last 24 hours.

[MikeWUSAF]

sedition

\Se*di"tion\, n. [OE. sedicioun, OF. sedition, F. s['e]dition, fr. L. seditio, originally, a going aside; hence, an insurrectionary separation; pref. se-, sed-, aside + itio a going, fr. ire, itum, to go. Cf. Issue.] 1. The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Bingo.

[CWOJackson]

Why am I not surprised that the cleaning lady said this...and in France. What happened? Did one of the gargoyles fall of Notre Dame and they asked her to fill in?

[Miss Marple]

Peach, these people are so convinced of their way (destruction of the nation as we know it) that they ignore manners, mores, and tradition. They are EVIL.

I have no compunction in saying this, because I do not believe for one second that they are misguided, foolish, or stupid. They know full well what they are doing, and they are EVIL.

[Finalapproach29er]

Didn't somebody at a hotel in Europe mistake her for being a maid? Doesn't that story exist in the archieves?

[Arrowhead1952]

On Iraq, Albright said "I fear that there really is chaos there. We don't know what's going to happen. One or two Americans a day are killed."

Madeleine Albright, if take all vehicle related deaths, murders, abortions, etc., do you realize the one or two [thousand] Americans a day are killed here in the United States?

[spectre]

Her comments will most likely be Peter Jennings lead story tonight.

Wonder how many French Pastries she can woof down in one setting? meow..

sw

[texasbluebell]

This is truly unpatriotic - I don't give a damn what the liberals say! It is despicable.

I must have a failing memory, because I just don't remember in years past any former officials from previous administrations attacking a sitting president as we see at least weekly now, not to mention a former president and first "lady" doing the same.

[river rat]

No surprise here!

The absense of class is CONSTANTLY being demonstrated by the members of Clinton's administrations......

Just another example of a "liberal democrat" politicians showing they can't shut the hell up and go away - once they're thrown out of office...

Hell - it's really a case that they are trying to deny the fact that they screwed things up so bad - that war became necessary to "put things right"......

Perhaps if we drove a stake up their fat asses?

Semper Fi

[Constitutional Patriot]

The clintonites are spewing their crap because they know that Rush is out of commission for a few weeks. I hope that Sean can fill the void as much as possible until then...

[Choose Ye This Day]

"Going to Europe and trash-talking Bush makes us Patriotic!"

[Peach]

Just walked back in. Oh, yes. I agree with you wholeheartedly.

Even Russert last year asked "where are the Democrats of the party of JFK".

The Rats today are not misguided, you are correct. They are evil. And I don't believe we're using that word lightly.

[Quilla]

Albright sounds like a ditzy chick.

[Choose Ye This Day]

"Can I be in your band?"

[ErnBatavia]

Has anybody ever spotted Albright and Helen Thomas in the same room?

If they had, they wouldn't have lived to tell about it....talk about a "fall over dead" kinda situation.

[eureka!]

Methinks she harbors more hate than the three originals...

[BigWaveBetty]

She added that France was "a little bit right" to oppose Washington's go-it-alone stance, but she warned: "It's method is not always the best."

Old Maddy's memory is failing. Here's what she said in 1998:

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told anxious allies and other hesitant nations that the United States would attack Iraq alone if diplomacy failed to reverse Iraq's defiance of U.N. weapons inspectors.

Set to fly off to Europe and then the Persian Gulf, Albright told reporters yesterday: "I am not going anywhere to seek support. I am going to explain our position."

And yet, Albright said the "diplomatic string" has not run out, and that the United States would prefer to act jointly with other nations, rather than alone, whatever the ultimate U.S. decision. Link

Maddy was very sure that Iraq was a threat then but now has no idea why the war happened now.

These scum have no shame.

[No Blue States]

From what ive been hearing on the drive home he has been doing that quite nicely!

[Quilla]

Do you think we'll ever see Maddy buck-nekkid on a magazine cover with traitor tattoed on her big ol' ...?

[Choose Ye This Day]

Albright: Can I be in your band?

Maines: Do you have any musical talent?

Albright: Not really...

Maines: That's okay, nobody will notice.

Albright: But I'm puffy, bloated, and I really, really hate George W. Bush.

Maines: You're well-qualified, then! How do you feel about Toby Keith?