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Subject: Col. Robert Bowman, USAF (Ret.): 9/11 Was Treason.
Date: 10/31/05 22:13:27
Subject: Col. Robert Bowman, USAF (Ret.): 9/11 Was Treason.
Source:
http://benfrank.net/blog/2005/09/18/treason/
Edited into continuous transcript here:
http://forums.therandirhodesshow.com/index.php?showtopic=71093
Col. Robert Bowman, USAF (Ret.) - Remarks from July 23rd Rally at the
Emergency Truth
Convergence;
I want to start with a scary thought: Can you imagine what would have
happened if George
W. Bush had been President during the Cuban missile Crisis.
You people who are out here protesting, you are the shock troops
battling to preserve our
cherished freedoms. You know our freedoms are not under attack from
the remnants of
Saddam Hussein's Bathist Party. They're under attack by the likes of
John Ashcroft. They're
trampled by Donald Rumsfeld, they're disdained by Dick Cheney, and
they're not even
understood by George W. Bush.
The battle to preserve our freedoms is not taking place in Baghdad and
Tikrit and Falluja.
It's taking place in peace marches and demonstrations in Ghiradeli
Park in San Francisco,
in Memorial Park in Oklahoma City, and in Lafayette Park in
Washington, DC.
The front lines are right here. You are preserving our cherished
freedoms by exercising
them in spite of ridicule and opposition. The battle to preserve our
freedoms is you.
You are the foot soldiers protecting our civil rights.
You are the Minutemen sounding the alarm against tyranny.
You are upholding the spirit of the American Revolution.
You 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 freedom. We my sisters and brothers are protecting
this nation by
speaking truth to power.
We're speaking truth to a pack of liars.
We must do it loudly and fearlessly and courageously and joyfully, for
we are the Patriots.
And when we speak, this is the truth that we proclaim:
This war in Iraq 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. And it's based totally on lies.
Those that forced this war on an unwilling world are guilty of
violating the US Constitution,
the UN Charter, the Nuremburg Principles and International Law. What
they have done is
illegal, immoral, unconstitutional and treason!
Before this war started, we knew it would fracture NATO, split the
United Nations, seperate
us from our allies 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 and outcast
among the
world community, a pariah among the peoples and the number one rogue
nation on Earth,
and it has.
This is nothing but 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 the British
people and
destroy our National Security, and it has.
This cabal of neoconservatives from PNAC who planned this war, Cheney,
Rumsfeld,
Wolfowitz, Libby, Perle, Jeb Bush - even before Dubya became President
- they told us why
they had to do it, they said we need to occupy Iraq permanently in
order to dominate Iran,
Syria, Saudi Arabia, and the southern Russian Republics around the
Caspian Sea. We need
to control the entire Middle East and all it's oil.
This is nothing but treason.
As other speakers have said, they knew the American people wouldn't
stand for it, and
they said so in their documents, and they said, unless there's that
new Pearl Harbor. Well
9/11 did supply that. And we've been lied to not only about the war,
but about 9/11 itself.
The Bush administration was warned. They were warned by the Clinton
Administration
during the transition period, they were warned by the intelligence
agencies of eleven other
nations, they were specifically warned by one FBI agent that Moussawi
was planning on
flying a hijacked airliner, "into the World Trade Center."
They ignored the warnings, more than that, we have mounting evidence
that _at least_,
they made it impossible for those planes to be intercepted.
If our government had merely done nothing - and I say that as an old
interceptor pilot and
I know the drill, I know what it takes, I know how long it takes, I
know what the procedures
are, I know what they were and I know what they changed them to - if
our government had
merely done nothing and allowed normal procedures to happen on that
morning of 9/11,
the twin towers would still be standing and thousands of Americans
would still be alive.
My sisters and brothers, that is treason!
As a combat veteran, I will not stand idly by watch our security
destroyed by a President
who went AWOL rather than serve in Vietnam. 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.
Patriotism demands that I speak out and call it by it's name. It is
treason.
I joined the Air Force a long time ago to protect our borders and our
people, not the
financial interests of Folgers, Chiquita-Banana, Exxon and
Halliburton. We've had enough
corporate wars. No more Iraqs, no more Kosovos, no more El Salvadors,
No more
Columbias.
These are not isolated incidents of stupidity, they're part of a long
bloody history of
foreign policy being conducted for the financial interests of the
wealthy few. It is a new
form of colonialism, all the benefits and none of the
responsibilities. It violates our
Constitution, it endangers our people and it is treason.
As a pilot who flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam, I swore to uphold
the Constitution of
the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that
includes a renegade
President. It's time for George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld,
Condoleeza Rice and
the whole Oil Mafia to be removed from office and indicted for treason.
We owe it to the men and women serving in Iraq to end the occupation,
restore our
credibility and honor and bring them home, and it could be done if we
had a President
who would go to the UN and say we made a horrible mistake, it was
wrong and we make
you three committments:
1. We give up all rights to Iraqi oil.
2. We give up all rights to the rebuilding contracts- if Halliburton
wants a contract from
you, they have to bid on it like anybody else, and they have to hire
Iraqis to do the work
for a change.
3. We give up all rights to those 14 permanent military bases we're
building in Iraq at this
time.
And the people in the Whitehouse are not going to make those
committments and so they
have to go and all the puppeteers with them.
You know we are the people and we are sovereign. We are the patriots
and the whole
world is with us. Everywhere in the country that they have a free
press, all over the world
people know the facts and they are with us. Not the people out there,
not the deadheads,
not the know-nothings, not the chickenhawks, they're with us.
Don't let anybody intimidate you into silence, it's time for all of us
to speak truth to
power. Our sons and daughters are being killed, they're being maimed
by the tens of
thousands, they're being poisoned by Depleted Uranium by the hundreds
of thousands.
They're children are being born with birth defects, horrible birth
defects, at an alarming
rate. We're being lied to about all that as well.
Our sons and daughters in uniform are being dehumanized, emotionally
damaged,
psychologically destroyed, they're being made not just to kill, but to
hate. Those who
return are prone to domestic violence, divorce and suicide. The lies,
the killing and the
destruction of our young sons and daughters must not continue. We must
end it.
Patriotism demands that we speak truth to power, and that we support
what's left of our
troops by bringing them home now.
Together we can do it. We can get the truth out there to the American
People, we're on the
verge. We've got half the people with us, we've got to go after the
other half. And together
we can take back our country and get the liars the heck out of there.
God Bless America, and God grant us regime change in Washington DC.
Thank you very
much.
