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War criminal Rice poor choice for Judson University speaker

If its springtime, you can bet on evangelical Christian, Judson University, Elgin, IL, inviting another George W. Bush Iraq war crime powerhouse to their annual World Leaders Forum. This March 19, former Bush National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will speak on "The United States in a changing world". Rice probably won't mention how she helped change the world by assisting Bush's decade long destruction of Iraq with her famous call to war "we don't want the smoking gun (of Iraq's fictional WMD program) to be a mushroom cloud." Maybe Rice can explain to the Judson faithful how her senseless Iraq war virtually wiped out the once proud and thriving Christian community in Iraq. Rice has never apologized or begged forgiveness for conduct that should have landed her in a prison cell rather than a fat speaker's fee at a Judson love-in event.

Judson bills this event as an endeavor to educate "tomorrow's business leaders... who glorify God by the quality of their personal relationships, their work, and their citizenship within the community, the nation and the world".  Judson does this by mostly inviting Iraq war criminals with hundreds of thousands of deaths on their resume to teach impressionable young Christians about leadership. The Decider himself, George W. Bush, was their first World Leaders Forum speaker in 2011. With a break for a decent human being, former Russian President and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Mikhail Gorbachev in 2012, Judson got back on track with British war criminal and former Prime Minister Tony Blair last year. This year Rice will make it Iraq war criminals three out of four years.

Judson University is cordially invited to dis-invite former George W. Bush co-Iraq war criminal Condoleezza Rice from being featured speaker at this year's event. No institution of higher education should legitimize the deeds of a world leader responsible for such monstrous carnage. The print ad for the event boasts VIP access for a photo op with Rice. The only photo op we should be privileged to see is Rice being arrested for war crimes and frog marched off the Judson campus on her way to the Hague for trial.

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If Judson University proceeds with Rice's appearance they should change their school motto to: "Judson University: where war criminals are welcome". 

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