A Real Leader and Woman of Courage

[Carolina]

Too bad we don't have someone like Col. Ann Wright running for president!

Retired US Army Colonel Speaks to Group; ‘Hit the Streets’ by Rebecca S. Bender (www.commondreams.org). Excerpt below.

A U.S. Army veteran who resigned in protest of the Bush administration’s policies told her story to an appreciative crowd ... Col. Ann Wright urged the group. “There are a lot of reasons why we have to keep working to end the war in Iraq.”

Wright handed in her resignation in March 2003 as a sign of her displeasure with the Bush administration’s decision to go to war in Iraq, its policies on the Israel-Palestine conflict and on North Korea and its ongoing assault on U.S. citizens’ civil liberties.

In her letter of resignation, addressed to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, Wright wrote, “I believe the administration’s policies are making the world a more dangerous, not a safer, place. I feel obligated morally and professionally to set out my very deep and firm concerns on these policies and to resign from government service as I cannot defend or implement them.”

On Monday, Veterans for Peace associate member and event organizer Becky Luening gave a brief run-through of Wright’s extensive resume - 29 years in the U.S. Army and U.S. Army Reserve, 16 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, two master’s degrees and a law degree - as background.

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[BrklynLiberal]

1. No one else was impressed with this woman??????????