Rice talk on Iraq war 11th anniversary disgraces Judson University

Leave it to Evangelical Judson University to schedule Condoleezza Rice's keynote speech at their fourth World Leader's Forum on March 19, the eleventh anniversary of America's criminal war against Iraq which Rice enabled as President Bush's National Security Advisor. If press reports are accurate, Rice made no mention of her role ...in the mass murder and mayhem she helped engineer in Iraq precisely eleven years earlier. Playing to the Evangelical faithful at Elgin, IL based Judson, who overwhelmingly supported her Iraq war criminality because it furthers their agenda of Armageddon in the Middle East which will raise them up to Heaven, Rice told the six hundred awed guests that "God gave us a brain and he expects us to use it". If there is a God who had Rice honor him by needlessly facilitating millions of deaths, injuries and displaced refugees at a cost exceeding three trillion dollars, He sure has some 'splainin' to do.

Six weeks ago I called Judson University's President Gene Crume requesting he rescind Rice's invitation to speak as she was utterly contrary to the aims of both a civilized society and an educational institution purporting to do God's work. I commented that certified war criminals like Rice should be shunned as the plague on our world they are rather than held up as role models of public service. I also pointed out that Rice makes three Iraq war criminals as keynote speakers in the four year history of Judson's World Leaders Forum. President Bush in 2011 kicked off the series, and Bush's poodle, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, spoke last year. Crume declined my request but did graciously offer me to make a suggestion for next year's World Leaders Forum keynote speaker.

Here are three Dr. Crume: Leaker of our Iraq war criminality Chelsea Manning; Wikileaks founder Julien Assange; and NSA spying whistleblower Ed Snowden. Oh, I forgot. Because they dedicated their lives to actually serving the higher purpose of promoting peace or defending the Fourth Amendment, they are either in prison, under house arrest at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, or safely protected from American prosecution under Russian asylum. Whatever you do, Dr. Crume, don't select former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Four Iraqi war criminals in five years would simply be too much to fathom.