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BLOGGED BY Winter Patriot ON 9/7/2006 12:17AM  
FL-15: Scholar For 9/11 Truth Lt. Col. Dr. Robert Bowman Wins Democratic Primary!!
Says Bowman: 'If they have nothing to hide, why are they hiding everything?'
And: 'The most unbelievable of all the conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11 is the OFFICIAL conspiracy theory.'

Guest blogged by Winter Patriot

Late Tuesday night, after the numbers coming in from the Florida primaries had told their story, many BRAD BLOG readers were happily celebrating Clint Curtis' win in the 24th district, and we were blogging about it quite a bit. If you drew inspiration from the events of the evening; if you thought it was very important, and very encouraging: Congratulations! Your heart is still beating and your blood is still red — and American!

In the barrage of Curtis-Feeney blogging, I neglected to mention another Democratic primary victory which in its own way was equally important and perhaps even more encouraging: Robert Bowman's victory in Florida's 15th district was a powerful shot in the arm for those of us who agree with what Bowman says about 9/11.

"And what does Bowman say about 9/11?" you ask.

Well done! Instead of jumping to conclusions immediately, you have asked the key question.

In a nutshell, Bob Bowman says:

The truth about 9/11 is that we dont KNOW the truth about 9/11, and we should.

A large and growing number of Americans share Bob Bowman's view, and clearly it hasn't hampered Bowman in his quest for the Democratic nomination in Florida's 15th congressional district.

Are you with me so far? Good!

More clips and links below the fold …

Robert Bowman's website gives detailed explanations of the positions he takes on a great many different issues; here's what he goes on to say about 9/11.

… I will sponsor (and have already lined up co-sponsors for) legislation initiating a truly independent investigation of 9/11. There is mounting evidence of complicity by elements of our own government.

If they have nothing to hide, why are they hiding everything?

Why are they hiding audiotapes of FAA and NORAD controllers? Why are they hiding videotapes of whatever hit the Pentagon? Why are they hiding the black boxes? Why did they destroy most of the forensic evidence showing that three buildings at the World Trade Center were brought down by thermite demolition charges?

If the thermite residue found on severed steel beams didnt bring down the towers, what did? (Never before in history did steel skyscrapers fall because of fire, and THREE of them did on the same day one of which wasnt even hit by an airplane!)

Why did four hijacked airliners fly around for up to an hour and 45 minutes without being intercepted? Why were normal procedures not followed? (If normal procedures HAD been followed, the aircraft would have been intercepted with 20 minutes to spare, the twin towers would still be standing, and thousands of dead Americans would still be alive.)

If it was massive incompetence, why has no one been fired? or demoted? or court martialed? (Instead they were promoted or given the medal of freedom!)

If Osama bin Laden was really suspected, why did our government violate its own no-fly order to hurriedly fly the bin Laden family out of the United States before they could be questioned? Why does the Osama bin Laden in the confession videotape have a nose about an inch shorter than the real Osama bin Laden?

Why have half a dozen of the 19 hijackers turned up in other countries alive and well? Were there really any hijackers at all, and if there were, were they patsies?

Who made millions on short sales of United and American Airlines? Where is the tens of billions of dollars worth of missing gold that was stored in the World Trade Center?

The American people and the families of those who died on 9/11 deserve the truth, and we do not yet have it. The above are but a tiny fraction of the unanswered questions not even raised by those who investigated the 9/11 tragedy.

The most unbelievable of all the conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11 is the OFFICIAL conspiracy theory told us by our government. The Kean-Hamilton commission report was a whitewash, a cover-up, and a bundle of deception.

If a new investigation identifies those responsible, they should be indicted for treason. And those who covered up the treason should themselves be indicted as accessories after the fact.

Did I hear you say, "Where is this man coming from?"

That's it, Ace! Another good question. You're in fine form!

Here's a short biography:

Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret. is President of the Institute for Space and Security Studies, Executive Vice President of Millennium III Corporation, and retired Presiding Archbishop of the United Catholic Church. He flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam and directed all the Star Wars programs under Presidents Ford and Carter. He is the recipient of the Eisenhower Medal, the George F. Kennan Peace Prize, the Presidents Medal of Veterans for Peace, the Society of Military Engineers' ROTC Award of Merit (twice), six Air Medals, and dozens of other awards and honors. His Ph.D. is in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from Caltech. He chaired 8 major international conferences, and is one of the countrys foremost experts on National Security. Dr. Bob was an independent candidate for President of the US in 2000, beating Pat Buchanan in Iowa, Illinois, and California. He has resided on the Space Coast for 16 years.

"Where is he going?" Of course a great deal depends on the sort of media coverage he gets. And surprisingly, perhaps, Bob Bowman has been getting some reasonable coverage in the national press.

Here's an example, from Jonathan Curiel in the September 3 SF Gate: THE CONSPIRACY TO REWRITE 9/11 — Conspiracy theorists insist the U.S. government, not terrorists, staged the devastating attacks

Robert Bowman, who directed the "Star Wars" defense program under Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, reached his own conclusion after questioning (among other things) why the American military hadn't intercepted the hijacked planes before they hit the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, why the FBI had ignored repeated pre-Sept. 11 warnings that Zacarias Moussaoui wanted to fly a plane into the World Trade Center, why the Pentagon didn't release surveillance tapes of American Airlines Flight 77 hitting the military complex, and how, within hours after the attack, the government could so quickly produce the names and photos of the 19 hijackers.

A former U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel with a doctorate from the California Institute of Technology, Bowman says Vice President Dick Cheney and other top government officials may have had advance knowledge of the attacks. Bowman theorizes that Cheney and other officials stood to benefit financially (in Cheney's case, through Halliburton). Labeling these officials "neo-cons," Bowman says they had a long-standing desire to control Iraq's oil and to use the country as a strategic hub for controlling the entire Middle East. The Sept. 11 commission, he says, neglected to investigate these possible connections, leaving a huge gap in the official account.

"It's hard to believe that somebody at some (government) level wasn't complicit in this thing," Bowman said in a phone interview from his home in Florida. Bowman, who publicly turned against the "Star Wars" system because he believed the Reagan administration secretly considered it a first-strike option and not merely a defensive weapon, says, "How could someone in the FBI turn down requests 70 times from somebody (FBI agent Harry Samit) who said he thought Moussaoui was going to fly a hijacked plane into the World Trade Center? … I'm calling for a (new) independent investigation that will clear up everything. If the investigation shows that there were people in the United States who were involved in some way, that's the story of the century, and the American people need to know it."

A great deal depends on what the media does, but even more depends on what Bob Bowman does.

Currently he's working with Scholars For 9/11 Truth. He spoke in LA in June, at a symposium with Jim Fetzer, Steven Jones and Webster Tarpley. Video from that event shows an important aspect of Bob Bowman which I haven't mentioned so far: He's a fine speaker, passionate and forceful yet calm and composed at the same time. Watch this video and see what I mean.

Using the words "passionate" and "forceful" in the same paragraph as "Webster Tarpley" reminds me: Tarpley spoke with Mike Malloy on Air America about a month ago, and it was very compelling radio!

It takes a while to download this show and it takes a while to listen to it too: the MP3 file runs for three hours and Tarpley is with Malloy for the final two and a half of them, but the first half-hour is spellbinding too.

On a recent thread, many readers have been speculating as to why Air America found it "financially" unfeasible to keep Mike Malloy around. Ahem. Have you heard this show?

Note: for this audio, I'm pointing you to the archives of the White Rose Society, where Ben Burch is doing a wonderful service for progressive America on a shoestring … or on no shoestring at all. He's doing an amazing job, and every little bit helps, and brother, if you can spare a dime, ah, you get the point, no?

Coming up this weekend: Dr. Bob Bowman will be in NYC, where — according to advance reports — a very large number of determined yet peaceful people — who just happen to agree with Bowman's viewpoint on 9/11 — will allegedly gather together for one more episode in the never-ending quest for Truth, Justice, and whatever may be left of The American Way.

8-11 September 2006 | 9/11 Truth, New York City, 5th Anniversay

Multiple events, multiple speakers, including: Alex Jones, Bob Bowman, Barrie Zwicker, Ralph Shoenman, Ian Woods, Barbara Honegger, William Pepper, Wayne Madsen, Jesse Richard, Jim Fetzer, Dr. Faiz Kahn, Kevin Barrett, Jim Marrs…

UPDATE: This just in!

False Flag Operations: Declassified Military Documents Show How US Government Planned Terrorist Attacks Against its Own Citizens

Bowman is part of a group of notable experts called the "Scholars For 9/11 Truth" made up of professors, engineers, former intelligence and military personnel, journalists, attorneys and many other professionals who say that the 9/11 attacks raise a red flag because they have many elements of false flag operations, such as a "stand-down" of the military defense on that day, one that must be questioned.

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