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Channel: Representative Press ☞ · 2014 · News & Politics

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UPDATE on our efforts to boost comment featuring previous video PLUS positive note on embedded videos. SEE PREVIOUS VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBnFsNUXB3w&list=PLfrlsC1yJ2dSv1uOfXivVyWYycXzJwrJb  "Dr. Rice is a war criminal in international law. She played a key role in launching a war that contravenes the United Nations charter, which requires that use of force against another country come either in self-defense after an attack or be authorized by the United Nations Security Council (as was the case with the Gulf War, Afghanistan and Libya)." - Juan Cole, Condoleezza Rice, Charged with War Crimes at Rutgers, withdraws as Commencement Speaker http://www.juancole.com/2014/05/condoleezza-withdraws-commencement.html

Resolution in Opposition to Condoleezza Rice 
as Commencement Speaker  
 WHEREAS Condoleezza Rice, as National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush, 
played a prominent role in his administration's efforts to mislead the American people 
about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the existence of links 
between al Qaeda and the Iraqi regime, 
 
WHEREAS the lies thus promoted led to the second Iraq war, which caused the death of 
over 100,000 men, women and children, and the displacement of millions of others, 
 
WHEREAS Condoleezza Rice, at the very least, condoned the Bush administration's policy 
of "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding, and its attempt to present 
such techniques as legal, 
 
WHEREAS Rutgers, as a public institution of higher learning, should educate its students 
about past historical events, not pretend they never took place, 
 
WHEREAS a Commencement speaker, who is entrusted with speaking to graduating 
students about the direction of their future lives, should embody moral authority and 
exemplary citizenship, 
 
WHEREAS an honorary Doctor of Laws degree should not honor someone who participated 
in a political effort to circumvent the law, 
 
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the New Brunswick Faculty Council urges the Board of 
Governors to rescind its misguided decision to invite former Secretary of State 
Condoleezza Rice to deliver the keynote address at this year's New Brunswick 
Commencement ceremony, and to award her an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. http://nbfc.rutgers.edu/year13_14/CRiceResolution_02_14.pdf

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