George W. Bush is not an imbecile., He is a TRAITOR

This is one powerful essay -- succinct and to the point. Dr. Bowman is a career military man with credentials to spare!



George W. Bush is not an imbecile.
 He is a TRAITOR.

Dr. Robert Bowman, USAF Ret
Date: Thursday, April 22
Baltimore Chronicle


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?

Here's what the first President Bush wrote about that in his memoirs:

"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!

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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!...........

http://baltimorechronicle.com/041704reTreason.shtml

The article defends the notion that people against the Iraq War aren't traitors.

But a great article. I never knew Bush Sr. said that. That's hilarious.

The attack on Iraq violated Article VI of the US Constitution and his actions since since his appointment to office seem to have been directed at undermining the security and safety of the people United States.

".... Those who forced this war on an unwilling world are guilty of flagrantly violating the US Constitution, the UN Charter, and international law. What they have done is illegal, immoral, unconstitutional and TREASON.
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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.

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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.

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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......"

TREASON is a word with a meaning. It means betraying this country to the other side during a war or fighting for the other side in a war, etc..

Our collective credibility is jeopardized by hysterical usage of the word 'treason' to mean betraying the ideals of our republic, acting extra-constitutionally and such. Those crimes against our form of civilization are, in my opinion, something lower than treason but are not properly called treason.

Calling everything bad 'treason' is a loathsome remnant of the red-scare era, J. Edgar Hoover and bashing Vietnam war protesters. Just because the Republicans revealed their contempt for democracy and the depth of their ignorance by routinely calling Clinton a traitor is no reason for us to fall into the same errors.

George W. Bush placed his hand on the bible and swore to uphold The Constitution of the United States and against all enemies both from within and outside of it's borders. He was elected as a tool of big corporations to manipulate and use whatever methods to obtain their goals (PAC), regardless of the affect on the rights of the citizens or of the world. George W. Bush as President of the United States does not want a thorough investigation of 9-11, which could provide valuable knowledge that our Nation could use to prevent further attacks but has placed walls against the Commission receiving all data. George W. Bush may not personally perform some of the attacks against the Constitution, but his appointees: Cheney,Ashcroft, Rice, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Rove, Powell, etc., etc., etc., have. If we agree that George W. Bush was elected (????), then he is fully accountable for all of the actions of his appointees. The good Dr. Bowman, USAF Retired took and Oath to uphold the US Constitution....I am sure he fully understands what it means.