Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned that a hasty pullout of American troops from Iraq would lead to political and military "disaster", and called on the US administration to stay the course there.
"I think to look at withdrawal from Iraq ... could lead to disaster," said Kissinger, who served as the top US diplomat in the administrations of presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
"We have to keep in mind what our objective should be, and if we leave Iraq under conditions at the end of which there will be a radical government in Baghdad, or part of the country becomes a haven for terrorism, it will have turned into a disaster that will affect the whole world," Kissinger said in an interview with CNN television.
He added that the global nature of terrorism makes it particularly difficult to chart a US exit strategy from Iraq.
"The terrorism is not confined to Iraq. It has gone from Bali in Indonesia to central Europe across many countries -- Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Spain, in some respects India," the former diplomat said.
Kissinger told CNN that it is important to frame the discussion in broader terms.
"We should ask ourselves very thoughtfully what the political situation will be that will allow us to withdraw troops, and not simply put it in terms of the training of Iraqi troops," he said.
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I can't recall any one saying that we should pull all of our troops now. That's what the problem is, most spend and talking points put out a lie to the point that some people start saying the same thing.
Now Rumsfeld said that we might pull 20,000 out by the end of this year, after the vote, but I don't no of any one who has said that we should pull out all at once.
Now what troubles me, is the fact that Rumsfeld may be out some time next year and Lieberman would take his position and you had better know that all hell will break out then.
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