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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the Bush administration deserves part of the credit for Arab Spring and the fall of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, in a report published Monday by USA Today.

"The change in the conversation about the Middle East, where people now routinely talk about democratization, is something that I'm very grateful for and I think we had a role in that," Rice said.

Rice credited former President George W. Bush for leading the way into “uncharted territory” in the Middle East, as well as with the agreement with Gadhafi to give up and turn over material from his nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs in 2003.

"[I'm] grateful we disarmed [Gadhafi] of his most dangerou! s weapons. Sitting in that bunker, I'm pretty sure he would have used them," she said, adding that Gadhafi "wasn't totally sane."

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