Posted on 05/05/2009 12:36:18 PM PDT by bs9021
Selective Censure at Stanford
by: Bethany Stotts, May 05, 2009
Ambushed by a left-wing student at Stanford, the former Secretary of State gave two students a history lesson unlike any they are likely to receive at Palo Alto.
The video, captured by student Reyna Garcia, captures an argument between students and Condoleeza Rice over the human rights and foreign policy implications of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. Taken at the reception segment of the dorm event, Garcia said she was unable to follow Rice inside to hear her formal speech.
“The most important thing [is] that you make a judgment [of] what’s right,” Rice told the first inquiring student, “and in terms of enhanced interrogation and rendition and all the issues around the detainees, Abu Ghraib is and everyone said Abu Ghraib was not policy, Abu Ghraib was wrong and nobody would argue in favor of Abu Ghraib.”
Rice went on to defend the Bush Administration’s waterboarding policy as not constituting torture because she argued it did not contravene the U.N. Convention Against Torture. She also said,
“But in terms of the enhanced interrogation and so forth, anything that was legal and was going to make this country safer, the President wanted to do—nothing that was illegal and nothing that was going to make the country less safe and and I’ll tell you something: Unless you were there, in a position of responsibility after September 11th, you cannot possibly imagine the dilemmas that you faced in trying to protect Americans and I know a lot of people are second-guessing now, but let me tell you what the second-guessing that would have really hurt me: if the second-guessing had been about three thousand more Americans dying because we didn’t do everything we could to protect them.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
Smack down with class. Gotta love it.
Zimbardo should conduct another prison experiment to display muslim tactics...right up to and including the beheadings. Wonder how many volunteers he’d get?
The sexual degradation he described sounded like a typical homosexual love fest. Maybe we can label them torturers now.
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