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Title: Retired Air Force Col: They lied to us about the war and about 9/11 itself
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URL Source: http://benfrank.net/blog/2005/10/27/oil_mafia_treason/
Published: Oct 29, 2005
Author: Ben Frank
Post Date: 2005-10-29 13:11:39 by Zipporah
Keywords: Retired, itself, Force
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Comments: 7
A few weeks ago I posted the audio and video from Part 1 of Retired Air Force Col. Robert Bowman’s Speech to Patriotic Americans, here’s Part 2. To Download, rt-click –> save as [the video] and/or 6.6mb Audio mp3 with cool backing music… here’s the transcript (but you really _must_ listen, he’s that good 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 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. —— more videos from this event can be found here
Col. Robert Bowman:
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.
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#2. To: Zipporah (#0)
Retired Air Force Col: They lied to us about the war and about 9/11 itself No one seems capable of reading, comprehending and remembering what they read and comprehended months unto years later. This war and the rational supporting it have been forgotten, and may not have understood at the time. Such is the nature of human beings and but ONE of the reasons George Santayana wrote: "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it". So, too, we are repeating the Vietnam War syndrome: a lazy media bleating the same tune without change playing the same, worn mantra on the public: "They lied to us about the war and about 9/11 itself." A mature reading of the intelligence, the Duelfer report and other substantial works reveals the reason we went to war: Saddam's intentions to skate through a time-out period THEN reconstitute his multifacted WMD program. I offer this excerpt from the Duelfer report's Summary: Cites and reference upon request.
You're not going to believe this, but he's trying it again.
#5. To: Jhoffa_ (#3)
I saw it, the sleazy _Jim out of context quote from the Duelfer report. You know what he's going to do next? He's going to skip through the report picking single words and come up with a quote like this: Saddam ... had ... lots of ... WMD ... and ... everyone knows ... it.
Quoting Santayana no less, that's just too fucking funny. Find out if _Jim is expecting a package...see, even bullshit can be scary, vote libertarian!
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Saddam wanted to recreate Iraq's WMD capability--which was essentially destroyed in 1991--after sanctions were removed and Iraq's economy stabilized, but probably with a different mix of capabilities to that which previously existed. Saddam aspired to develop a nuclear capability--in an incremental fashion, irrespective of international pressure and the resulting economic risks--but he intended to focus on ballistic missile and tactical chemical warfare (CW) capabilities.
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Replies to Comment # 3. You're not going to believe this, but he's trying it again.
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