Rice Defends Rumsfeld

[sabra]

Source: ABC News

Condoleezza Rice often clashed with Donald Rumsfeld when he was Secretary of Defense. But now Rice is sticking up for him in a battle with students and professors at her old university.

Rumsfeld was appointed last month as a "Distinguished Visiting Fellow" at the Hoover Institution, a think tank on the Stanford campus. The appointment prompted campus protests, and demands from students and faculty that the appointment be rescinded. In one typical response, an English professor called the appointment "sad, ridiculous and contemptible."

"I know Don Rumsfeld, he is going to be a challenging presence because he will ask tough questions," Secretary Rice told ABC. "And I hope people will ask tough questions of him. But that's the way these things should go, that's what universities ought to the about, be about open exchange of ideas"

Many professors at Stanford -- where Rice served as provost from 1993 to 1999 -- disagree. A petition started by Art History Professor Pamela Lee to "strongly object" to Rumsfeld's appointment has been signed by 3,800 members of the Stanford community, including more than 300 members of the faculty.

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[Felix Mala]

1. Incompetent birds of a feather flock the rest of us...

Sure he'll ask a lot of questions... And he'll answer them, too, regardless of how grounded in reality they are.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. which explains Desmon Tutu, Ward Churchill, and Sami Al-Arian

doesn't it?

What is good for the goose is good for only the goose.

[Javaman]

3. Wow, just wow. the level of hypocrisy is at an all time high.

rice = tool

[Fresh_Start]

4. I think Rumsfeld at Stanford is great

In particular, I think he should be a lab subject for all types of research especially related to brain disfunction

[Fovea]

5. Send him over to the Stanley Milgram institute

for further study...