Special
report:Tension escalates in
Iraq
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice on Friday admitted that the United States has made
mistakes in the Iraq war.
"As to whether the United States has made mistakes:
of course, I'm sure we have," Rice said in an interview by the Arabic satellite
television station Al-Arabiya.
"You can't be involved in something as big as the
liberation of a country like Iraq, and all that has happened since, and I'm sure
there are things that we could have done differently," Rice said.
The top U.S. diplomat also said the Bush
administration is looking ahead, not backward.
"When I'm back at Stanford University," she added, "I
can look back and write books about what we might have done differently."
Rice was a political science
professor and later provost at the California University before she became
President George W. Bush's one of top aides at the White House in 2001.
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U.S. panel on Iraq reaches agreement on Iraq
policy
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- A U.S.
bipartisan group examining the Bush administration's Iraq policy on Wednesday
reached consensus on its recommendations to the White House and Congress, its
co-chairman said. <<<
U.S. military denies there is civil war in
Iraq
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- A top U.S.
military leader denied on Wednesday that there was a civil war in Iraq, despite
the ongoing, escalating violence in the Middle East country and the fact that
some American news organizations have called the conflict a civil war.<<<
Report: U.S. military equipment worth billions wearing out
in Iraq, Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- About 2 billion
U.S. dollars' worth of U.S. Army and Marine Corps equipment, from rifles to
tanks, is wearing out or being destroyed every month in Iraq and Afghanistan,
U.S. media reported on Wednesday. <<<
Iraq civil war? Bush says no, media
says yes
BEIJING, Nov. 29
(Xinhuanet) -- U.S. President George W. Bush says Iraq has not fallen into a
civil war, The New York Times and other U.S. news outlets say it has and have
begun using the term to describe the fighting in Iraq. <<<
Bush: sectarian violence in Iraq not
civil war
RIGA, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) --
U.S. President George W. Bush said Tuesday in Tallinn, capital of Estonia, that
the sectarian violence in Iraq was not civil war but an effort by Al Qaida
extremists to disrupt the democratic progress, according to news reaching
here. <<<
White House denies Iraq conflict a
civil war
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27
(Xinhua) -- The White House denied on Monday the saying by NBC, a major
television network in the United States, that Iraq has fallen into a civil war.
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Violence rages in
Iraq
BAGHDAD, Nov. 25 (Xinhua)
-- The Iraqi capital city of Baghdad on Saturday remained under curfew for the
second day, as gunmen raided two Shiite homes and killed 21 men in Diyala
province. <<<
