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Gary Kohls
Some Dare Call It Treason-Wake Up America!
Sun Apr 11, 2004 16:38
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Some Dare Call It Treason-Wake Up America!
By Dr. Robert Bowman, USAF Ret.

I am a member of Veterans For Peace, an organization of thousands of combat
veterans. All of us have put our life on the line for this country. Most of
us opposed the recent invasion of Iraq. We also opposed the first Gulf War,
and the sanctions that followed. We opposed the slaughter of fleeing Iraqis
on the Road to Basra. We opposed the use of Depleted Uranium munitions. And
we opposed the lies upon which the first Gulf War was based. But there was
one good thing about that first Gulf War. It ended. And without a wholesale
invasion of Iraq. Why?

"Trying to eliminate Saddam would have incurred incalculable human and
political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We would have
been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. There was no viable
exit strategy we could see, violating another of our principles.
Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for
handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq,
thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations mandate, would have destroyed
the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to
establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could
conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."

My brothers and sisters, it is just too darn bad his son can't read!

I've been severely criticized for speaking out in opposition to this war. So
have you, probably. We're told that we're aiding and abetting the enemy. We'
re told that we should support the president no matter what. We're told that
patriotism demands that we support the war. They say that we're abusing the
freedoms that our troops are in the Middle East defending. They say we
should be ashamed to be protesting while the troops are in the desert
protecting our right to do so.

Well I say, Hogwash!

I feel an affinity for the troops over there in Iraq. They are my comrades
in arms. I admire their sense of honor and sacrifice. I understand why some
of them believe they should be there. They have neither the experience nor
the wisdom to see past the lies they have been told. The truth is, they are
not over there protecting our freedoms. Our freedoms are not under attack
from Saddam Hussein or the remnants of his Baathist party. Our freedoms are
under attack by John Ashcroft. They are threatened by John Poindexter. They
are trampled by Donald Rumsfeld. They are disdained by **** Cheney. And they
are not even understood by George W. Bush. The battle to preserve our
freedoms is not taking place in Baghdad and Tikrit. It is taking place in
Central Park in New York City, in Lafayette Park in Washington DC, in
Ghirardelli Park in San Francisco, and in River Front Park in Melbourne,
Florida. The front lines go right down US 1 and up New Haven Avenue.

It is we, here at home, who are the foot soldiers battling to preserve our
cherished freedoms by exercising them, in spite of opposition and ridicule.
It is we who protect our civil rights through speaking out. We are the
Minutemen sounding the alarm against tyranny. We are upholding the spirit of
the American Revolution. We are preserving the freedoms that the troops in
the desert have a right to come back to. The troops getting shot at in Iraq
are not protecting us. We are protecting them, and their honor and their
freedoms. We have just completed a forced march through hostile territory to
defend their freedoms and ours, and the ideals America was founded on. We
are protecting this nation by speaking truth to power. Let us do it loudly
and fearlessly and courageously and joyfully, for we are the true patriots!

Here is the truth that we proclaim. This war has nothing to do with national
security or freedom or democracy or human rights or protecting our allies or
weapons of mass destruction or defeating terrorism or disarming Iraq. It has
to do with money. It has to do with oil. And it has to do with raw imperial
power. It is based on a pack of lies. And it is wrong. Those who forced this
war on an unwilling world are guilty of flagrantly violating the U.S.
Constitution, the UN Charter, and international law. What they have done is
illegal, immoral, unconstitutional and TREASON.

It's been said that somewhere in Texas there is a village looking for their
idiot. Now that may be funny, but it misses the point. George W. Bush is not
an imbecile. He is a TRAITOR.

Before this war started, we knew it would fracture NATO, split the United
Nations, separate us from our allies, and destroy the great nation we
inherited from our fathers who died in World War II. And it has. We knew it
would make our beloved country feared and hated, an outcast from the world
community, a pariah among the peoples, and the number one rogue nation on
earth. And it has. It has done so based on a pack of lies. My sisters and
brothers, that is not stupidity. That is TREASON.

We knew this sadistic corporate war would incense the Arab world, provide
thousands of new Osama bin Ladens, and enormously increase the terrorist
threat. And it has. We knew it would further endanger the American people
and destroy our national security. And it has. That is not stupidity, it is
TREASON.

The cabal of neoconservatives at PNAC who planned this war (Cheney,
Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Libby, Perle, Jeb Bush) even before W became president,
knew the American people would not stand for it unless there was a new Pearl
Harbor. 9/11 supplied that. Our government was warned. They were warned by
the Clinton Administration. They were warned by 11 other countries. And they
were specifically warned by an FBI agent that one of them was planning on
flying a hijacked airliner into the World Trade Center.

They not only ignored the warnings, they made sure no fighter jets were
scrambled to stop it. If they had just done nothing, and allowed normal
procedures to be followed, the Twin Towers would still be standing and
thousands of dead Americans would still be alive. This is not stupidity, it
is TREASON.

As a combat veteran, I will not stand idly by and watch our security
destroyed by a president who went AWOL rather than fight in Vietnam. Honor
requires that I call this by its right name. It is TREASON.

As one who has devoted his life to the security of this country, I will not
stand by and watch an appointed president send our sons and daughters around
the world to kill Arabs for the oil companies without calling it by its
right name. It is TREASON.

I joined the Air Force to protect our borders and our people, not the
financial interests of Folgers, Chiquita Banana, and Exxon. We've had enough
corporate wars. No more Iraqs. No more El Salvadors. No more Kosovos. No
more Colombias. These are not isolated incidents of stupidity. They are part
of a long, bloody history of foreign policy being conducted for the
financial benefit of the wealthy few. It is a new colonialism. It violates
our Constitution. It endangers our people. And it is TREASON.

As a pilot who flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam, I can tell you that the
best thing our government can do for its combat veterans is to quit making
more of them. Peace is patriotic; a preemptive war is immoral, illegal,
unconstitutional, a war crime, and TREASON. I swore to uphold the
Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.
That includes a renegade president. Wake up, America! It is time for George
W. Bush, **** Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and the whole oil mafia to be removed
from office and indicted for TREASON.

We are the people. We are sovereign. We are the patriots. The whole world is
with us. Never allow anyone to intimidate you into silence. Wake up,
America! It's time to speak truth to power. God bless America, and God save
us from the traitors in our government.
Dr. Robert Bowman was a Col. in the USAF and Chief of Technology Assessment
under President Jimmy Carter and is a Catholic Bishop of The Apostolic
Society of Franciscan Communities. email: isss@rmbowman.com, web site:
http://www.rmbowman.com. He has been President of the Institute for Space and
Security Studies since 1982. Before that he was Vice-President of Space
Communications Company; Manager, Advanced Space Programs for General
Dynamics; and Director, Advanced Space Programs Development for DoD,
directing the "Star Wars" programs.

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Mon Apr 12, 2004 14:03
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War in Iraq was result of Jewish advisors like Feith, Wolfowitz and others
in Bush administration getting America to fight a Jewish enemy like Iraq.
Now Perle is going around telling America we need to invade Syria and Iran,
more Jewish enemies. Zionist/Khazar Jewish power is evil. Please Senator
Kerry don't appoint any Jews when you get in.

Sgt. Smith No. 5 ACS Ubon