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Clinton says Iraq War was to make Israel feel more secure

Bill Clinton | 22.07.2004 21:41 | Anti-militarism

"I think that in the beginning this whole weapons of mass destruction thing for them was maybe a good way for them to get their foot in the door, but not the major issue for them."


In an interview with the ABC's Enough Rope program, Mr Clinton says he believes the main concern for the administration was to remove Saddam Hussein from power.





"To shake up the authoritarian Arab regimes in the Middle East, to make Israel feel more secure and to give America more leverage in making peace between Palestinians and Israelis," he said.

 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1156480.htm

Bill Clinton

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  1. figures — oily
  2. Arab unease — Journo
  3. A worrying obssesion with the israeli state seems to have emerged on indymedia — No war but the class war
  4. Israel, to die for? — k
  5. please quote full sentences — Zion 1
  6. Read the fist point people. — Brian B