Rice said people often did not understand the full implications of events until long after they had happened.
She said liberating Iraqis from "the monster that was Saddam Hussein" was neither unilateral nor a mistake.
"It was not the United States of America alone that believed that he had weapons of mass destruction that he was hiding," Rice said.
The Iraq war was fought over charges that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction based on intelligence that later proved to be faulty.
Dipity
