Rice bad pick to keynote Barrington Townwarming event

The Barrington cultural commission is touting former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as their ‘most prominent keynote speaker yet’ for their 4th annual Townwarming Event scheduled January 23. Motorola CEO and Barrington resident Greg Brown snagged Rice for a ‘fireside chat’ on Zoom this pandemic year instead of a sold out gala for 200 at Barrington’s picturesque White House.

But as one of the four key architects of the 2003 Iraq war based on lies, fear and propaganda against an imaginary Iraqi WMD program, Rice should be shunned, not celebrated in American culture. Rice bears much responsibility for the hundreds of thousands dead, including 5,984 U.S. military and contractors, from the senseless March 19, 2003, U.S. invasion she championed as President Bush’s National Security Advisor.

Life after fomenting senseless war has been quite good for Ms. Rice. Unlike the other three main Iraq war architects, President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Rice has refused receding into welcome anonymity. She teaches political science at Stanford University while serving as Director of its conservative Hoover Institution. She also serves on the boards of Dropbox and Makena Capital Management, LLC, besides frequent speaking engagements such as the upcoming Barrington Townwarming.

Event moderator Greg Brown could salvage some good from his choice by beginning his fireside chat with Rice on lessons she might have learned from her ill-fated adventure enabling criminal war in Iraq. I'd Zoom to that Townwarming in a heartbeat.