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So...you agree with SMU's dedication to academic freedom just as long as it is not based in conservative thought? Hmm...interesting.

On the matter of the proposed Bush Library, I feel I can rather accurately reflect the opinion of former Perkin's dean Joseph Quillian, were he alive today, for we often spoke of the responsibilities of leadership and the crucial need for honesty and integrity among our leaders.
He would have been deeply horrified by Bush, and the notion of a library of manufactured, distorted "facts" would have struck him as absolutely antithetical to the ideals of such an institution. Strengthening Bridwell as he did was one of my father's proudest accomplishments during his long tenure as Dean of Perkins, for he always said that a university's power is centered in its library.
Thus I feel that a "library of lies" will in fact diminish and pollute SMU, not add to its students' knowledge.... any more than a snake oil salesman's version of the PDR would add to their medical knowledge.

Bushie, as my family call him, has let down both his family and extended Conservative base across the country. This administration is in serious decline and really has been since the declared war on Saddam or Sad Sack Hussein. Let's start with the No Child Left Behind Act which slows down the education processes etc..Don't waste your time in setting up a library for an incompetent buffoon!!

The city of Dallas should be embarassed if this plan follows through. They will not only be known as the city that assinated a president but now the city foolish enough to build a $500 million terrorist target in the center of it.

Freedom of Speech?? Only if it reflects kindly on Liberals! Hypocrits!! As an alum, I want the library and think tank.

Truly conservative thinking for an American is not dishonest contortion of facts for personal aggrandizement, nor obliteration of opposing views to claim attention or prominence. True conservatives are not brutes bent on distruction and dominance by force over unwilling adversaries.

Honest academic inquiry welcomes disagreement and thoughtful examination of ideas, is not threatened or defensive in argument, but openly curious and intellectually generous. Honest academic discourse is incompatible with trickery and preconfigured results.

Not only will the $500M fiasco called the Bush Library be a terrorist target, but the house he is building in the middle of Highland Park will also be a target. We don't want any of it anywhere near us.

I for one am frustrated that these so-called "Think Tanks" are plopped on college campuses in a cynical bid to give them some sort of legitimacy. Why not have them build their Ministry of Truth on its own land and affiliate it proudly with its donors, mostly wealthy Saudis, neoconservative hacks, and political pundits. The stealth manner of which these groups operate is revolting, and they always name themselves in generic terms to trick the public into thinking they are unbiased, apolitical and purely intellectual sources of information.

A nationwide class action lawsuit should be started to seek an injunction from breaking ground and spending any money from the Bush Foundation. The funds should then seized to compensate families of GIs that have lost children in the internationally illegal Iraq War started by G.W. Bush. Charges should be filed against Bush and Cheney seeking to pursue them as war criminals.

Karl Rove, political boy genius or "turd blossom" as Dubya likes to call him, resigned from the Bush Administration to work on the legacy of one George W. Bush. Over a half billion dollars has been pledged to start the Bush Library at Southern Methodist University in College Station, Texas. Rove's new assignment is to work on rewriting history to portray Bush as an effective and inspirational leader; instead of being the worst President in History as we should all know him today.

A small million dollar federal prison facility can be built at SMU from which Karl Rove Dubya and Cheney can give daily press interviews about their legacy and new philosophy if anyone will come.

Mr. Mee, I agree with ost of your statements, HOWEVER, Southern Methodist University is located in Dallas, not College Station. It is an affront of near equal proportions to place us in the home of the Texas Aggies as it is to place the Bush Library at this campus.