During Friday's graduate student commencement ceremony at the University of Massachusetts, Andrew Card, the former Chief of Staff to Mr. Bush, received an honorary doctorate degree in "public service".
Along with holding and wearing signs reading "Card: No Honor, No Degree" and "Dis-Card", the students and faculty members (including those on stage) rightfully delivered a shower of boos for more than three minutes after Card was introduced by Provost Charlena Seymour. In order to view video footage of this fantastic event, please visit http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Hundreds_boo_former_Bush_Chief_of_0526.html.
As Chief of Staff until April 2006, Card obviously served as an architect of the Iraq War; however, the University of Massachusetts still decided to award the honorary degree to Card. Card directed the White House Iraq Group responsible for controlling public relations for the war; the deceitful group's members included Karl Rove (Deputy Chief of Staff to Mr. Bush), Condoleezaa Rice (Secretary of State), Scooter Libby (convicted Chief of Staff to Mr. Cheney), Karen Hughes and Mary Matalin. Aside from his international exploits, Card and then White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales attempted in March 2004 to convince former Attorney General John Ashcroft to re-authorize the domestic surveillance program recently determined to be illegal by the Department of Justice. Ashcroft, lying in an intensive care unit at George Washington University Hospital from a severe case of gallstone pancreatitis, refused to do sign the appropriate papers.
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