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Rice: As A 'Political Scientist,' 'I am Absolutely So Proud' Of Invading Iraq
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This morning, CNN aired an exit interview with
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. During the interview, reporter...
Zain Verjee asked Rice if she “ regretted her role in the Iraq war .” Rice responded by saying that she had no regrets ...
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Rice: As A ‘Political Scientist,’ ‘I am Absolutely So Proud’ Of Invading Iraq
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This morning, CNN aired an exit interview with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. During the interview, reporter Zain Verjee asked Rice if she “regretted her role in the Iraq war.” Rice responded by saying that she had no regrets about the war and is “absolutely so proud” of invading Iraq:
QUESTION: Do you regret your role in the Iraq war?
SECRETARY RICE: I absolutely am so proud that we liberated Iraq.
QUESTION: Really?
SECRETARY RICE: Absolutely. And I’m especially, as a political scientist, not as Secretary of State, not as National Security Advisor, but as somebody who knows that ...
Political Science at War
Matthew Yglesias —
Condoleezza Rice is now offering the strange claim that her status as a political scientist bolsters her feeling that invading Iraq was a good idea:
And I’m especially, as a political scientist, not as Secretary of State, not as National Security Advisor, but as somebody who knows that structurally it matters that a geostrategically important country like Iraq is not Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
My colleague Ryan Powers reminds us that, in fact, many of the leading lights of the international relations subfield of political science tried to warn the country ...
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