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To: one_less who wrote (145751)	9/16/2004 2:14:36 PM
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Vietnam War-era defense secretary says US got it wrong in Iraq ROME (AFP) - Former US defense secretary Robert McNamara, a key hawk in the Vietnam War, said as he got married here that the United States had got it wrong in Iraq (news - web sites). "They made a mistake," McNamara said in remarks carried in Italian by the Italian news agency ANSA from Assisi, where he was getting married. Without naming US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) and his administration, he said that "it's a terrible problem and I don't know how it will end." McNamara was the secretary of defense from 1961-68 under presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, but has since publicly regretted his hawkish role in the Vietnam conflict. Now 88, he married 70-year-old Diana Masieri at a private ceremony in the Italian city. The couple met four years ago. McNamara said they had chosen Assisi because it was a "city of peace." The veteran politician had already denounced US President George W. Bush's Iraq policy earlier this year, saying Washington should never have used its power "unilaterally." news.yahoo.com

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