Marcy Kaptur: “earlier this week U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke to a business forum in Detroit. His topic, the Middle East.…”

“earlier this week U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke to a business forum in Detroit. His topic, the Middle East. His message, the nations of the Middle East need to transform themselves. The Bush administration, having failed to find weapons of mass destruction, failed to find Saddam Hussein, failed to capture Osama bin Laden, failed to eradicate the Taliban, failed to implement the road map to peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, and of course failed to secure the peace in Iraq, is trying to salvage something out of its disastrous policy so they are talking about this policy of transformation. The Bush administration is trying to get the American people to believe that throwing $87 billion more at Iraq will begin the process of transformation by building the garden spot of the Middle East and that other nations will magically follow the lead. It will not work. Their policy is doomed to fail, throwing more money is not the answer in Iraq. As the Detroit Free Press reported, although Secretary Powell had plenty of advice for Middle Eastern nations about how to conduct their affairs, he offered no plan for the road to peace.”