Do As We Say, Not As We Do...

Secretary of State Rice to the OAS meeting in Fort Lauderdale:

"We in the OAS cannot rest, we must not rest, we cannot tire, we must not tire and we can never declare victory until freedom, prosperity, and security enrich the lives of all people," Rice said, echoing words of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. "This is the great calling of our democratic nations. And it is the legacy that we must leave to posterity."

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In a thinly veiled reference to oil-rich Venezuela, which is engaged in escalating tensions with the United States, Rice said the OAS "must insist that leaders who are elected democratically have a responsibility to govern democratically."

Are you getting this down, amigos? Don't you just love it when the United States lectures everybody else on democracy, especially after seeing how we exercise it for detainees in Gitmo? Rule of law? Presumption of innocence? The right to confront witness? Habeus corpus? But we're at war...