U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday admitted that the United States has made mistakes in the Iraq war.

"As to whether the United States has made mistakes: of course, I'm sure we have," Rice said in an interview by the Arabic satellite television station Al-Arabiya.

"You can't be involved in something as big as the liberation of a country like Iraq, and all that has happened since, and I'm sure there are things that we could have done differently," Rice said.

The top U.S. diplomat also said the Bush administration is looking ahead, not backward.

"When I'm back at Stanford University," she added, "I can look back and write books about what we might have done differently."

Rice was a political science professor and later provost at the California University before she became President George W. Bush's one of top aides at the White House in 2001.

Source: Xinhua