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12/27/2004:

"Former US official blasts Iraq policy"

A former US national security adviser has strongly criticised the US-led invasion of Iraq.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served under President Jimmy Carter from 1976 to 1980, also made a scathing assessment of the ensuing occupation after Saddam Hussein was ousted as Iraqi leader.

He said the US administration will now have to scale down its ambitions for Iraq's future.

"I personally think it was not worth it, in the sense that we have paid a high price in blood. And it's increasing. You cannot underestimate the suffering that this has already produced to tens of thousands of American families," he told CNN.

Full Article : aljazeera.net