U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accepted on Friday the United States had probably made thousands of errors in Iraq but defended the overall strategy of removing Saddam Hussein.
Local Muslims and anti-war activists told Rice to "Go Home" when British counterpart Jack Straw earlier led her on a tour of his home town of Blackburn in the industrial northwest, an area which rarely plays host to overseas politicians.
"Yes, I know we have made tactical errors, thousands of them," she said in answer to a question over whether lessons had been learned since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
"I believe strongly that it was the right strategic decision, that Saddam had been a threat to the international community long enough," she added.
It always seems interesting to me that while this administation can admit that mistakes were made at every step of this debacle, they just cannot bring themselves to admit that the war itself was the biggest mistake.
Until they can do that we will never see any real changes in our dealings with Iraq, or for that matter any other nation like Iran or North Korea.
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