Colin Powell in the New York Times: "What We Will Do in 2004" (More of the same!)

Shorn of its hypocritical posturings, Colin Powell's New Year's message promises more of the same. For instance:
"America's formidable power must continue to be deployed on behalf of principles that are simultaneously American, but that are also beyond and greater than ourselves."
And:
"While our efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq will continue in 2004, we are resolved as well to turn the president's goal of a free and democratic Middle East into a reality. We will expand the Middle East Partnership Initiative to encourage political, economic and educational reform throughout the region. We will also stand by the Iranian people, and others living under oppressive regimes, as they strive for freedom."
"We are working for the advent of a free Cuba, and toward democratic reform in other countries whose people are denied liberty. And we are resolved to support the young democracies that have risen in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. The consolidation of freedom in many new but often fragile democracies will shape the aspirations of people everywhere, assuring that the 21st century will be a century of liberty worldwide."
Nothing about the undemocratic old regimes in those places that would not have survived without US military and diplomatic support! And the exposure of the WMD lies might never have happened:
"Americans are safer as 2004 begins than they were a year ago. Afghanistan is no longer a devil's playground for terrorists, nor is Iraq an incubator for weapons of mass murder that could have fallen into terrorists' hands."
Anyone who claims that the world is safer - and that includes USA - is either demented or lying. No acknowledgement that the WMD scam was just that, that Iraq had been at war with Al-Queda when US was financing terror in Afghanistan and elsewhere throughout the world.
And anyone who thinks imperialism is dead should ponder over these chilling words, cosmetically seeking to cover a colonialist agenda:
"As we work to restore a liberated Iraq to its people, we invite the United Nations and the international community to help Iraqis establish a new citadel of free minds and free markets in the Middle East."
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