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Article: Bill Clinton attacks Bush over Iraq
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 23, 2004
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Bill Clinton said yesterday that the UN, not America, should be
taking Iraq towards democracy, and that George Bush erred in forcing
out UN weapons inspectors and going to war without UN support.
"There are so many people who suspect our motives," the former US
president said in an address in Brazil. "I don't think Iraq was about
oil and imperialism but it was about unilateralism over co-operation
as a way to shape the world in the 21st century."
Mr Clinton said the best way to take Iraq to a democracy was
multilaterally, with the UN in a leading role. He said the Bush
administration should have given UN inspectors a final chance to look
for the weapons which it had accused the Iraqi ...