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Published on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
Stanford Anti-War Alumni, Students Call for Condi War Crimes Probe
During the Vietnam War, Stanford
students succeeded in banning secret military research from campus. Last
weekend, 150 activist alumni and present Stanford students targeted Condoleezza
Rice for authorizing torture and misleading Americans into the illegal Iraq
War.
Veterans of the Stanford anti-Vietnam War movement had gathered for a 40th anniversary reunion during the weekend. The gathering featured panels on foreign policy, the economy, political and social movements, science and technology, media, energy and the environment, and strategies for aging activists.
On Sunday, surrounded by alumni and students, Lenny Siegel and I nailed a petition to the University President’s office door. The petition, circulated by Stanford Say No to War, reads:
“We the undersigned students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other concerned members of the Stanford community, believe that high officials of the U.S. Government, including our former Provost, current Political Science Professor, and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Condoleezza Rice, should be held accountable for any serious violations of the Law (included ratified treaties, statutes, and/or the U.S. Constitution) through investigation and, if the facts warrant, prosecution, by appropriate legal authorities.”
I stated, “By nailing this petition to the door of the President’s office, we are telling Stanford that the university should not have war criminals on its faculty. There is prima facie evidence that Rice approved torture and misled the country into the Iraq War. Stanford has an obligation to investigate those charges.”
After the petition nailing, I cited the law and evidence of Condoleezza Rice’s responsibility for war crimes - including torture - and for selling the illegal Iraq War:
As National Security Advisor, Rice authorized waterboarding in July 2002, according to a newly released report of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Less than two months later, she hyped the impending U.S. invasion of Iraq, saying, “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” Her ominous warning was part of the Bush administration’s campaign to sell the Iraq war, in spite of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency’s assurances that Saddam Hussein did not possess nuclear weapons.
A week before the nailing of the petition, Rice made some Nixonian admissions in response to questions from Stanford students during a campus dinner designed to burnish Rice’s image on campus.
In October 1968, Stanford anti-war activists had nailed a document to the door of the trustees’ office which demanded that Stanford “halt all military and economic projects concerned with Southeast Asia.”
Veterans of the Stanford anti-Vietnam War movement had gathered for a 40th anniversary reunion during the weekend. The gathering featured panels on foreign policy, the economy, political and social movements, science and technology, media, energy and the environment, and strategies for aging activists.
On Sunday, surrounded by alumni and students, Lenny Siegel and I nailed a petition to the University President’s office door. The petition, circulated by Stanford Say No to War, reads:
“We the undersigned students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other concerned members of the Stanford community, believe that high officials of the U.S. Government, including our former Provost, current Political Science Professor, and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Condoleezza Rice, should be held accountable for any serious violations of the Law (included ratified treaties, statutes, and/or the U.S. Constitution) through investigation and, if the facts warrant, prosecution, by appropriate legal authorities.”
I stated, “By nailing this petition to the door of the President’s office, we are telling Stanford that the university should not have war criminals on its faculty. There is prima facie evidence that Rice approved torture and misled the country into the Iraq War. Stanford has an obligation to investigate those charges.”
After the petition nailing, I cited the law and evidence of Condoleezza Rice’s responsibility for war crimes - including torture - and for selling the illegal Iraq War:
As National Security Advisor, Rice authorized waterboarding in July 2002, according to a newly released report of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Less than two months later, she hyped the impending U.S. invasion of Iraq, saying, “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” Her ominous warning was part of the Bush administration’s campaign to sell the Iraq war, in spite of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency’s assurances that Saddam Hussein did not possess nuclear weapons.
A week before the nailing of the petition, Rice made some Nixonian admissions in response to questions from Stanford students during a campus dinner designed to burnish Rice’s image on campus.
In October 1968, Stanford anti-war activists had nailed a document to the door of the trustees’ office which demanded that Stanford “halt all military and economic projects concerned with Southeast Asia.”
22 Comments so far
Show AllThen they'd better start a Green Party voter registration drive, because neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have any intention of upholding the law and implicating themselves.
Condoleezza Rice is scheduled to open the University of Calgary's new School of Public Policy on May 13. Please help those, asking the U of C to rescind Condi's invitation. SIGN PETITION HERE:
http://www.petitionsite.com/1/illegal-war-is-not-good-policy
http://mostlywater.org/node/66659
This is part 2
at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC0Tgdqa36A&feature=channel_page
Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVFl_yabzCA&feature=channel_page
Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1FSxWlXRI0&feature=channel_page
150 activists (many of whom were not currently students) protested at a university with over 6000 students, plus hundreds of faculty and workers. Pathetic. Where was everyone?
http://www.stanfordshop.com/
"The secretary of state recalled shopping trips after church as a child and the mall that is about five minutes from her apartment near Stanford University, where she was expected to return when the curtain falls on the Bush administration. If she’s talking about the Stanford Mall, there’s more than 140 “world class stores” waiting for her.
She continued, “It’s a great pastime, shopping. I love it, even if I don’t buy anything. I just love going to the stores to look.” "
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/condoleezza-rices-yen-for-shopping/
What are you on about? What if she is Zoaroastrian?
Zionists hurt all jews.
Is Marjorie Cohn jewish? If so, how can she avoid the connections?
Rice sure was defensive at that Standford dinner..I think she is ready to crack..keep up the pressure on the war criminal.
"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts." - John Keats
And don't forget this little ditty from May, 2001:
"Condoleezza Rice also described a weak, divided and militarily defenseless Iraq. "Saddam does not control the northern part of the country," she said. "We are able to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt."
Just a few months later - a threat greater than Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Hirohito combined!
She's the soft card in the deck - give her immunity in exchange for selling out the top anti-American sadists she used to work for and with...
Condi should probably be tortured by ramming the heels of those 500 dollar Ferragamos she bought while afro-americans were drowning in New Orleans under her fingernails.
Oh, yeah, I forgot: the US does not torture....
I'm still waiting for Condi's hero and mentor, Dr. Strangelove Kissinger to be prosecuted. The US does not have a good track record of holding our elite accountable like ordinary folks are.
Consolidated Rice-A-Roni will probably wind up as president of Stanford University.
Stanford, which played a major role in developing the internet, should have an internet based petition, sent out to ALL alumni of Stamford.
This petition should state that all alumni contributions will be withheld until Stanford investigates Ms. Rice.
This petition should also include foreign students and graduates who make up a large part of the Stanford Community.
A full list of corporate sponsors of Stanford should be published - on the internet- so appropriate action can be taken to educate and motivate these parties against Ms. Rice.
Why does Stanford need Ms Rice in the first place ? Why did Harvard need Larry Summers ? Why are Stanford graduates such sheep .....
The actions of Ms. Cohn are a welcome relief after hearing Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley chastise the Spanish judge on Countdown last night because he desires to prosecute Cheney and Bush for their war crimes. Turley's weak rationalization was that attempts at foreign prosecution should take a back seat to American jurisprudence. Waiting for that to happen could mean a millennium would occur before American decided to actually go after their criminal officials. Better to see Marjorie Cohn denounce Rice than to hear Jonathan Turley condemn a judge in another country for having the courage and integrity which so many American politicians and prosecutors are so sorely lacking.
Good for Marjorie Cohn!
Glenn
America was not attacked by "a handful of Saudis". It was attacked from the inside by skilled military types. Indeed, it turns out that domestic enemies are far more virulent than foreign enemies.
Do you realize the USA is in the process of destroying a fourth nation in its irrational and demonic response to being attacked by a handful of Saudi's?
Only the deeply benighted believe there was a reason to destroy the once prosperous and largely secular Iraq.
Unlike the neocons I have yet to hear of anyone claiming the Talibs had prior knowledge of 9/11. Yet the USA attacked a stabilized and relatively peaceful Afghanistan during negotiations for Osama's extradition.
It is not well known but for a short while Somalia had been stabilized and violence subdued by an Islamic government, before the USA sent it's proxy dogs of war Ethiopians to destroy the functioning government.
Now the USA is forcing death and destruction upon Pakistan in the USA's quest to have a world free of any Islamic or Nationalistic Muslim nation.
The Ethiopians "sent" to subdue the "functioning" Somali government were members of the Ogaden Clan who have been fighting the clans in Mogadishu since the 1960s.
It is no coincidence, however, that the longest runway, in Africa, built by the US in the 1960s is in Gode, which is just upriver from Mogadishu.
Northern Somalis, based in Hargeisha, would dispute your assertions that there is a central government for Somalia, especially since the northern President remains in Washington, waiting for some approximation of peace.
ducksawce 11:23 You are obviously more familiar with the geography than I, I know the politics only from reports.
The Ethiopians were the Ethiopian armed forces ( I saw pictures) sent by the Ethiopian government with USA permission and encouragement( monetary aid also?).There is long standing enmity between christian Ethiopians and Somali Muslims. How much of the Government forces were Ogaden clansmen I do not know.
This USA proxy disrupted a functioning Islamic government that had replaced an ineffectual western puppet government that only controled the capital.
The Islamic government controlled 90% of Somalia not including the part in the north that has been autonomous for decades. There was almost no bloodshed during this time of Shiria Courts.
Then the USA sent the Ethiopians in and started the whole lawless civil war mess again.
Good work. Should've used railroad spikes. I hope the nails were DAMN HUGE.
Innocents, the world over, are dying for Amerika's sins.
Brave up, every coward that might be reading this.
Evil doesn't respond to 'polite'.
Ohhhh puh-lease Adolf, puh-lease stop roasting Jews (and others) in your ovens. We'll bake a chocolate cake in your honor if you do, and we promise not to bother you any more....please Adolf?
Folks, it doesn't work that way. Get yourself involved. REALLY involved.
I'm asking everyone of you to stop being a coward. Sure you're scared. But be brave about it. This country, as it 'stands' now is SICK and, EVIL. The fear isn't going away by itself. Get involved.
DO IT.
Thank you.
nedlud
If nothing else, maybe they can get Condi fired. Schadenfreude can be so pleasant ...
Shame on Stanford, good start Ms. Cohen. With Ms. Rice's public statements, contemplation of her continued employment is due.
With a different approach, can you Ms. Cohen, or any attorneys, name a venue or jurisdiction which can initiate investigation and prosecution of Ms. Rice for war crimes? It is strange that only Spain has judges bold enough to take action. Is there a point where refusal to prosecute blatant criminality becomes obstruction of justice or accessory to the crimes?
Elmwood