There are people in this country who won’t pretend that the people who made the decision to invade Iraq are not war criminals. I believe that, as time goes by, this will become more of a mainstream view. But, as it stands, Condi Rice cannot come to New Jersey and deliver the commencement address to Rutgers’ graduates because the students and the faculty will not tolerate it.
This is as it should be.
Totally legitimate for students and faculty to object to a commencement speaker chosen by the school’s administration. Former SOS Rice did the right thing in bowing out. Anyone here want to defend the Rutgers administration and assert that the students should have been happy to have Rice speak and she shouldn’t have withdrawn?
Anyone here want to defend the Rutgers administration and assert that the students should have been happy to have Rice speak and she shouldn’t have withdrawn?
Why do you hate freedom?!?!?? – John Schindler and Tom Nichols.
For those unfamiliar with Twitter:
http://twitter.com/20committee
http://twitter.com/TheWarRoom_Tom
And this Tumble mocks Schindler using his own tweets:
http://schindlertweets.tumblr.com/
which made Schindler so upset he threatened to sue(Seriously!!)
Ah, my Alma Mater. Sigh. As it should be, right.
She, and every other member of the evil Cheney/Bush cabal should have been allowed to say what they wanted to say – at their War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague.
Their words should have been taken down, and distributed as examples of pure, unadulterated stupidity and evil.
And then, they should have been locked away for the rest of their miserable lives, and we’d never have to hear from them again.
But, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
UMass Amherst commencement 2007:
If they’re not gonna go to prison for their crimes, at least they will be haunted by them for the rest of their lives. Public lives, anyway.
This year’s average college graduate was eleven years old when we invaded Iraq. That war defined their adolescence and led to the recession that is stealing their future. They will not easily forgive. Good for them.
Scanning the wing-nut sites, it appears very important to them that Condi is a woman and black. As if that has even the remotest influence on why her assignment was resisted with such ferocity.
From your link:
#17. her message was that the biggest problem in the world was Islamophobia [?]
The writer think it means love for Islam? Is that what the Iraq War is about and the funding by Zionist organizations of Islamophobes like Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, Geert Wilders and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. WOT – War crimes and crimes against humanity by any means. USA and Israel sharing the same values.
○ Brandeis Withdrawal of Honorary Degree for Hirsi Ali is “Honor-Killing”
And how unfair that to appease student malcontents, Rice has to forgo a fat check and another doctoral degree.
○ Ret. Four Star General Petreaus Mixes with Islamophobes, Climate Change Deniers and pro-Frackers
Wow — Petraeus and James O’Keefe on the same stage. The bucks must be very good.
And resume her bookend place with fellow war criminal John Yoo at Berkeley.
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