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Ward Churchill shares his surname with one of the pre-eminent figures in world political history, Winston Churchill. That is where the similarities end. The media has been in an uproar since Ward Churchill was "disinvited" to speak at Hamilton College in NY. The invitation was retracted after the public was made aware of the professor's anti-American screed about the September 11 tragedy. The University of Colorado has since started proceedings to evaluate whether Churchill should continue in his tenured position at the university.

The uproar centered on comments that Churchill made in an essay about the September 11 tragedy. According to the media reports Churchill labeled the WTC victims "little Eichmanns", a reference to one of the notorious members of Hitler's gang of murderers. But that is only one little line in his essay. In fact, it is one of the most benign statements contained in the professor's view of America's culpability in the tragedy. The essay, which the far left described as Churchill's view of why September 11 happened and how it could occur again, was much more than just some innocuous op-ed piece.

In "Some People Push Back", Churchill blamed the United States' foreign policies and acts of aggression as the driving force behind the terrorist attacks against out country. In his myopic view, America had murdered thousands of innocents in Iraq prior to September 11, 2001. The tragedy was our "payback". Churchill claimed that "the most that can honestly be said of those involved on September 11 is that they finally responded in kind to some of what this country has dispensed to their people as a matter of course. That they waited so long to do so is, notwithstanding the 1993 action at the WTC, more than anything a testament to their patience and restraint."

Churchill opined that the real cowards were our military men and women - those that participated in the first Gulf War and those who patrolled the no-fly zones after the war. Our military "delighted in flying stealth aircraft through the undefended airspace of Baghdad, dropping payload after payload of bombs." He even went so far as to praise the terrorists stating "the men who struck on September 11 manifested the courage of their convictions, willingly expended their own lives in attaining their objectives."

Churchill's actual description of the victims of the terrorist attacks was much more dark and vile than the media would allow you to believe. First he did not agree that the victims were innocent. Churchill wrote "But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire...and they did so both willingly and knowingly." He went on to describe the WTC victims as "too busy braying, incessantly and self-importantly into their cell phones, arranging power lunches and stock transactions, each of which translated conveniently our of sight, mind and smelling distance, into the starved and rotting flesh of infants." As if that was not hateful enough, Churchill continued "If there was a better, more effective or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it."

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