Anti-Iraq War Speaker Coming to Westminster College May 2

Stan Goff, a leading voice in the anti-Iraq war movement, will speak at Westminster College Monday, May 2, at 7 p.m. in the Witherspoon Room located in the McKelvey Campus Center.

"While he will give voice to the anti-war position, we hope that this event will be an open discussion of multiple perspectives," said Dr. Andrea Grove, assistant professor of political science at Westminster College.

Goff is a former Army Special Operations soldier, whose military career includes serving in Vietnam, Grenada, and Haiti.  He also was part of the military training mission in Colombia and Peru, and classified missions in El Salvador and Guatemala.  He was deployed in Mogadishu with the Task Force Ranger, which was made famous by "Black Hawk Down." 

He is a member of the coordinating committee of Bring Them Home Now, a campaign of military families, veterans, active duty personnel, and reservists against the war in Iraq.  He is also a member of Military Families Speak Out, an organization of people who are opposed to the war in Iraq and who have relatives or loved ones in the military.

In addition to teaching military science at West Point, he is also an author of several works including: "Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century" and "Hideous Dream: A Soldier's Memoir of the U.S. Invasion of Haiti."

The event is free and open to the public.  Contact Grove at (724) 946-7254 or e-mail groveak@westminster.edu for more information.

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