by Katie Fretland
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits New Zealand today, where a group of students who oppose the Iraq War have offered a $3,700 reward to anyone who makes a citizen's arrest of her.
The Auckland University Students' Association charges that Rice oversaw "the illegal invasion and continued occupation" of Iraq," AP reports.
Rice plans to meet with Prime Minister Helen Clark and Foreign Minister Winston Peters during her first trip to New Zealand, following a Southeast Asian security forum in Singapore.
Rice said during a press conference today that protests are part of Democracy.
"Student protests are particularly a long honored tradition in democratic society," Rice said. "I can only say that the United States has done everything that it can to end this war on terror, to live up to our international and national laws and obligations."
Law enforcement officials in Auckland said that they are aware of the citizen's arrest plan and will stop anyone who tries to cross police lines.
The AP contributed to this report.
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"I can only say that the United States has done everything that it can to end this war on terror..."
If that were true, we'd have never gone into Iraq and the generals and troops in Afghanistan would have had the tools to do the job to capture/kill bin Laden, Al Queda, and their Taliban comforters from the get go.
Posted by: Doug "Hussein" Zook | July 25, 2008 7:32 AM
Good luck getting past secret sevice ha ha ha ha!
Posted by: Teresa | July 25, 2008 3:09 PM