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Clinton: Iraq stability will take 5 years
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-06-21 15:10 It will take at least five years before Iraq
becomes a stable and secure country, despite a handover of power set for July 1,
U.S. former President Clinton said in an interview released Sunday.
In an interview with Der Spiegel newsweekly, Clinton said that a planned
transfer of power to Iraqis on July 1 would not likely stop violence in Iraq,
and that it would take at least five years to create "a peaceful, secure and
pluralistic Iraq."
"I don't believe that we're out of the woods yet," he told the magazine.
But, he said that he hoped the transfer of power was a sign that the
administration of President Bush was taking a new tack.
"I hope that the whole process has lead back to a foreign policy that we
should have followed — to cooperate wherever we can, and only to act alone when
we have to," he said.
He called photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured in Iraq
heart-rending.
The Middle East "cannot receive the impression that we imposed strict
sentences on ordinary soldiers and went easy on the command or knowingly
tolerated violations," he said.
Clinton gave the interview in advance of the release of his memoir, "My
Life," which is being excerpted in the magazine.
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