Ohmygosh, your right. There's absolutely no way American presidents or "military intelligence" could possibly have known that Saddam Hussein was really a bad guy, and would do something naughty like that. Afterall, Saddam Hussein looks so trustworthy in this picture:
You are quick to criticize past mistakes but do nothing to provide real solutions. Yes, we have supported regimes and countries we later regret assisting.
I agree that sometime we are too intrusive in some of our foreign forays. However, the very same countries that jump on us for being to intrusive are the same ones that criticize us when we do not do enough.
Well, we COULD debate the actual number of children horrifically murdered if it would allow you to sleep at night. However, I agree with your quote above. I can very well imagine that after Madeline Albright thoughtfully considered the question and then gave an HONEST and TRUTHFUL answer, she LATER regretted it.
You are quick to blame America however You didn't address the fact that Saddam Husein and his administration squandered the food and aid given to him as well as the UN's food for oil scam that I mentioned and linked to.
The recipients of USA's LARGEST foreign aid packages are those nations with the worst human rights violations: Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Columbia, . . . in short, this evidence DOES support that America has a policy of deliberately murdering innocent people.
Giving military and economic aid to countries that provide stability in a region (i.e. Egypt and Turkey) and developing countries is not evidence for deliberately murdering innocent people in the same manner that giving money to the Boy Scouts is not evidence that if a rogue Scout Master molests a scout that you deliberately molested the young scout yourself.
Does this aid need tweeking. Yes. Should we restrict aid countries who are involved in human rights abuses. Yes.
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World