(From the April 3, 2006 Tribune-Star)
Special speaker will discuss on going war Our “preemptive” war in Iraq is now three years old and shows no sign of ending. More than 2,300 young Americans and countless thousands of Iraqi citizens are dead and thousands more are wounded. No WMDs were found in Iraq. U.S. sanctioned torture methods in detention camps have shocked the world. First Amendment rights of American citizens are being violated.
In the Bush administration we are confronted with what amounts to an imperial presidency. These are only some of the reasons that I and many in our area and around the nation find it necessary to exercise publicly our right to dissent from current policies.
Many former military and government officials are also voicing their dissent. Wabash Valley residents have an opportunity to hear an Army veteran and retired diplomat, Col (Ret.) Ann Wright, discuss “Dissent in a Democracy: The War on Iraq.”
The day the Iraq War began, Col. Wright resigned as Deputy Chief of Mission of an American Embassy in the Far East because she could not support the administration’s policies on Iraq. She will be speaking April 9 at 1:30 p.m. at the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 1875 S. Fruitridge in Terre Haute.
Col. Wright’s appearance is sponsored by the UU Social Action Committee, Terre Haute Stop War on Iraq and the Indiana Peace and Justice Network. For more information e-mail www.stopwaroniraq@yahoo.com.—
Diane M. Brentlinger, Co-chairStop War on Iraq
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Col. Wright’s appearance is sponsored by the UU Social Action Committee, Terre Haute Stop War on Iraq and the Indiana Peace and Justice Network. For more information e-mail
I see this UU bunch is for even more gun control and other huggy organizations. Are you sure this is a Libertarian site and not a socialist one.
They are libertarian socialists. It sounds like they lobby the government so it must be more than a church. If you write them they can send you a brochure.
She spoke very well and told much truth. Being in the military she said we should support those who served and were wounded there. That's ok but I'm no socialist and if their job can't compensate their wounds they should go to their families. Other than that she was sort of capitalist.
I'll write on this now.
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