George W.
Bush has revealed he has only one regret about invading Iraq - that it
paved the way for the rise of the Islamic State.
Speaking to CBS News
in a two-part interview, the 68-year-old former president said he
thought it was 'the right decision' to take military action in 2003 in a
bid to oust Saddam Hussein.
But
he added: 'My regret is that…a violent group of people have risen up
again…This is "Al-Qaeda plus"…they need to be defeated. And I hope we
do…I hope the strategy works.'
During the
interview with Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer, Bush also
revealed that when he threatened to invade Iraq, then-president Hussein
did not take him seriously.
'You
know, when he was captured... I was told that the FBI agent that talked
to him, he said "I just didn’t believe Bush,"' he said. 'And it’s hard
for me to believe he didn’t believe me.'
The 2003 invasion of Iraq, which spanned
March 19 to May 1 that year, signaled the start of the Iraq War, which
claimed the lives of nearly half a million people.
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