Condoleezza Rice tells U crowd: 'We kept the nation safe'
Outside Northrop Auditorium, about 100 demonstrators carried protest signs and sang old antiwar songs.
But during her 45 minutes on stage Thursday afternoon, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice only fleetingly acknowledged the stir that accompanied her appearance at the University of Minnesota.
Yes, she said, there’s still controversy about “things we were involved in. I understand that.” But she offered no apologies for her role in the Bush administration’s war on terror. In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, she said, “we kept the nation safe.”
Rice, who is now a professor at Stanford University, was invited to talk about the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act as part of the Distinguished Carlson Lecture Series, which is sponsored by the Humphrey School of Public Affairs.
Her appearance had triggered a campuswide debate after faculty and student activists started a campaign to get her speaking invitation revoked, saying she shared the blame for the torture of detainees and other wartime abuses.
University officials, however, dismissed the criticism as a misguided attack on free speech.
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You should be in THE HAGUE, along with the Failure Fuhrer and the rest of the war criminal Bewsh administration.
