Comment and summary of story from HuffPost, May 6, 2011

Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice still insists that Saddam Hussein was a threat to the United States – despite not one piece of evidence ever having been presented to support her view.

She said in an interview with Lawrence O’Donnell on American TV show, ‘The Last Word’, that the countless sacrifices made by Americans and innocent Iraqi civilians were worth it.

When O’Donnell told her that Iraq had nothing to do with September 11, she responded by saying: ”After September 11, of course you look at threats differently, your country has just been attacked, you know that you cannot allow threats to materialize.”

O’Donnell repeated that Hussein was not a threat to the US, but MsRice just said: “You may not view him as a threat. Most of the world did.”

Toward the end of the interview, O’Donnell turned the conversation to the recent uprisings in other Middle East countries.

He wondered if it would not have been wise to let a similar organic movement occur in Iraq.

Ms Rice answered: “It’s simply ill-informed and ahistorical to suggest that a dictator as brutal as Saddam Hussein would have allowed an Arab uprising in his country.”

WVoN Co-Editor comment: I guess Ms Rice thinks revolutionaries in Egypt got the permission of president Mubarak before the uprising there.

And I find her usage of the term “ill-informed” quite ironic.

As well as not finding any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, there is “no credible evidence” that Saddam Hussein’s government collaborated with the al-Qaeda terrorist network on any attacks on the United States, according to the staff report released in 2004 by the commission which investigated the September 11 attacks.

There is something to be said about people who are not willing to or do not have the capacity to change their minds even after proven wrong; such people should not be governing countries with powerful arsenals.