But I am not letting Clinton, Obama, Dodd, and Biden or Edwards especially off easy for ignoring this issue. They should have been at this protest today. Despite the fact that if you look up their votes, you can see that they voted or chose to register a "no vote" on legislation that appropriated further funds for WHINSEC, it does not matter. They are running to lead this country and must be adamantly against this School of the Americas.
Reassessing and reexamining the situation is not an option. The school has got to close its operations permanently.
"The Center for International Policy has estimated that the current annual cost of keeping WHINSEC's doors open is $7.5 million, much of which is U.S. tax dollars," reported the States News Service in June this year. Those U.S. tax dollars continue to flow to the institution because our government would like us to believe it is essential that we train Latin American soldiers to fight in our "war on terror."
I reject war as an instrument of foreign policy. And I reject the training of soldiers for covert operations and education in harsh interrogation techniques. How about you?
We all should have been at Fort Benning this weekend with Dennis Kucinich because it is schools like the School of the Americas that make Iraqs, Irans, Abu Ghraibs, Guantanamos, etc. happen. Only when we remove the militarization of education in America will we truly free ourselves from tyranny.
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