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Condoleezza Rice says Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi was "a monster" who "wasn't totally sane," and she hopes Libya's transitional leaders can overcome tribal rivalries to create a stable government after his death. "It's by no means beyond the realm of the possible that they'll pull this off, but obviously in a place like Libya it's very difficult," she says. Rice says the strategy of undermining the dictatorship through support for rebels would not have worked in Iraq, which the United States invaded in 2003 in hopes of ousting Saddam Hussein. "It would be a mistake to make the leap of faith that this would somehow have worked in Iraq," she says in her first newspaper interview about her memoir, No Higher Honor. The book about her tenure as national security adviser and secretary of State in the George W. Bush administration is out Tuesday. "Gadhafi … wasn't Saddam Hussein in terms of his reach and capacity," she says. "I do think that an Arab spring in Iraq would have been...