Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’
Members of CAN and UMC Speak Out
Last Monday, members of the Ole Miss chapter of CAN (Campus Antiwar Network), UM Constitutionalists, and Young Americans for Liberty were the few to speak out against the war criminal Colin Powell during his well paid visit to the campus.
The protest was a great success. With only a few dissenting voices, CAN was able to make the front page of the campus newspaper. They not only were able to make the paper, they actually were part of the story describing Colin Powell’s speech. Thanks to student activists, members of the community for once were allowed to witness dissent to the corruption that is so shamelessly ignored by the media in our country. I want to congratulate everybody who took part in the protest. This was a great step in waking up the campus.
Greed, War, and their Visit to Ole Miss
The world is too astonishing for me sometimes. I usually end up with my hands being thrown in the air screaming, “They did WHAT!!” The most recent news with the ability to elicit such a response from me is that Colin Powell was picked to speak on our campus about, “A World of Opportunity and Challenge” as part of Black History Month. He has also been touted as being, “an extraordinary human being who has reached the top ranks of military, diplomatic and political circles,” by the Honors College dean. It’s a nice attempt to characterize the extremely expensive guest speaker as better than he actually is, but don’t be fooled.
In order to grasp the horrid picture I have of Colin Powell, I must first describe the events in which he played a major role. According to Richard Cummings and his article Lockheed Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, a meeting occurred in November of 2002 between Stephen J. Hadley, then deputy national security advisor, and Bruce Jackson where they discussed how to get American citizens complacent with a needless war that they were about to start. Hadley reportedly told Jackson, “they are going to war and are struggling with a rationale,” to justify it. So Jackson’s job was to do just that, create a reason to have innocent American soldiers and Iraqis murdered.
