"US becoming a colonial power" - Wesley Clark

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?artid=37738538

US becoming a colonial power: Wesley Clark

PTI< MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2003 09:08:56 AM >

WASHINGTON: The United States is well on its way to becoming a colonial power if President George W Bush does go ahead with plans to attack Iraq, a former Nato supreme commander said on Sunday.

General Wesley Clark, a former Nato supreme commander and a potential Democratic candidate for president, told a Meet the Press programme on NBC that Saddam Hussein was "finished" and having gone so far, the US could not change its plans to remove him.

"We are at a turning point in America's history. We are about to embark on an operation that is going to put us in a colonial position in the Middle East following Britain."

It is a huge change for the American people and what this country stands for, he said.

The Bush administration, he said, has not respected its allies and that is why it finds itself without the support of many Nato allies and even in those countries prepared to support the US, public opinion is against the war. Iraq, could have been contained without war, he said.

Clark also warned against a civil war in Iraq after the present regime is removed because of the ethnic and religious divisions in the country--Kurds in the north, Shiites who constitute the majority in the country, and Sunnis who now wield power.

[Andy_Stephenson]

1. We were already a colonial power...

Think Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

[DrBB]

2. Note the DATE

Now where's that thread where everybody was saying he was a big war supporter all over CNN during the actual invasion, gloating about dead bodies 'n' stuff, and only belatedly came around to saying it was a bad idea.....

[Donna Zen]

3. He'll be great!

...he is also doing a web cast at 6:30 tomorrow morning for his supporters.

[jab105]

4. Not colonial....

no, we are an IMPERIAL power...