Iraq war alienated US from world

Former US presidents Bill Clinton (2nd L), Jimmy Carter (2nd R), George Bush (R) and current president George W. Bush (L) walk out of the William J. Clinton Presidential Centre in Little Rock, Arkansas Thursday during the inauguration ceremony. The Clinton Presidential Library and Museum includes some 76.8 million pages of paper documents, 1.85 million photographs and over 75,000 artifacts from Clinton's eight years at the White House. PHOTO: AFP

"I supported giving the president the authority to take action against Saddam Hussein if he did not cooperate with the UN inspectors or if he was found to have had weapons of mass destruction he wouldn't give up," Clinton, at the inauguration of his presidential library here, told ABC television.

"I did believe that the administration made a mistake going to war when they did, and that's what alienated the world. And most Americans still haven't focused on this," Clinton said.

Speaking on the same program, his wife, Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, told ABC she planned to run for re-election in 2006.

"I'm going to run for re-election to the Senate, which I am very excited about," she said when asked about a possible White House run of her own in 2008.