US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice has said the US-led war in Iraq will turn out to be a "strategic achievement" for not only President George W Bush but for the United States.

Interviewed on Fox news in Washington, Rice said on Sunday she "would give anything" to revisit the issue of weapons of mass destruction, but said the 2003 invasion was still right even if the weapons were never found.

"I still believe that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein is going to turn out to be a great strategic achievement, not just for the Bush administration, but for the United States of America," Rice told Fox.

Instead of a repressive dictator who has sown instability, triggered wars and used weapons of mass destruction, "you now have a young democratic multi-ethnic Iraq," Rice said.

http://news.smh.com.au/world/iraq-will-be-strategic-achievement-rice-20081208-6td6.html

“a young democratic multi-ethnic Iraq”: less, of course, 1.2million dead citizens from bushit’s weapons of mass destruction; a society destroyed; more “terrarists” trained & active; no sign of bin Laden & it only cost the world’s biggest creditor a couple of trillion dollars to destroy the planet’s oldest civilisation whilst stealing its natural resources.

Yep, an achievement to be really proud of …. gives true meaning to the expression “ugly American” …. I wonder if she wonders why they still hate her?