Posted by: zanshin, 2008-04-04 01:23

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Date: 2008-02-02 (Saturday)
Iraq was a mistake. I've said this before and I said this in the presence of Paul Wolfowitz, one of the architects of the invasion, at an IISS conference two months after the fall of Saddam Hussein, when someone asked me what will happen in Iraq. In October 2002, I was in Washington and became quite convinced an invasion would take place. On the way home, I stopped in London and asked Tony Blair to brief me. After 45 minutes, I said, "Look I accept the argument that with British and American military capabilities it would be a walk over, but then what do you do the day after?
-- Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's Minister Mentor, interviewed by Arnaud de Borchgrave






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