6, May 2006 Rumsfeld
Challenged
Former
senior CIA official (and co-founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals
for Sanity), Ray McGovern, should be nominated the ‘man of the year’ by Time
magazine for his courage in confronting the shadowy, defense secretary, Donald
Rumsfeld who was on a speaking engagement at the Southern Center for
International Studies, Atlanta. McGovern accused Rumsfeld of consistency lying
to the American people in the run up to the war in Iraq. Rumsfeld had never
been confronted by such hostility and looked thoroughly uncomfortable.
Fortunately, there were enough sycophants in the largely screened audience who
saved Rumsfeld from further embarrassment after he gave a most disingenuous
response to McGovern’s accusation.
Other
antiwar demonstrators had managed to voice their anger before being escorted
from the premises. Before entering the hall, McGovern was handed a ‘protocol
card’, which stated that “there will a question-and-answer period, but please
adhere to these guidelines. Refrain from using the word ‘lie’ in relation to
the war in Iraq. Do not question the secretary’s personal responsibility
for torture. And please don’t discuss first use of nuclear weapons against
Iran. If you violate these guidelines, you'll be immediately removed from the
auditorium, flown to an undesignated prison location somewhere in Eastern
Europe and tortured. Thank you for your cooperation.”
How
far our nation has fallen from the “land of the free and home of the
brave.”
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