Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton

Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton

believes that the current “dangerous situation” in

Iraq is the result of her “mistake” as a senator in

voting to authorize the war against the country.

"What we now see is a different and very

dangerous situation," she told reporters on

Tuesday.

The Democratic presidential candidate made the

comments when asked if the world is better off

without former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in

power.

"I've made it very clear that I made a mistake,

plain and simple, and I have written about it in

my book. I’ve talked about it in the past," she

said.

However, the ex-first lady explained that her

country would support the Iraqi government to

fight the ISIL terrorist group.

"The United States is doing what it can, but

ultimately this has to be a struggle that the Iraqi

government and the Iraqi people are determined

to win for themselves and we can provide

support, but they're going to have to do it," she

said.

The Iraq war is highlighted after Republican

presidential hopeful Jeb Bush said that he would

have invaded the country in 2003 if he was the

president of the United States.

In an interview with Fox News last week, the

former Florida governor admitted that he would

have repeated the mistake of his brother, George

W. Bush.

In 2003, Bush ordered the US-led invasion of Iraq

under the pretext of finding weapons of mass

destruction allegedly stockpiled by Saddam

Hussein. That later proved to be false.

It was revealed that not only Saddam Hussein

was not in possession of WMDs but also that

United States and Britain leaders knew about the

non-existence of such weapons.