I'm writing in response to today's Daytona-Beach News-Journal Article "A Deserter's Story" about local soldier Sgt. Robert Keller who chose to move to Canada and be with his young family rather than deploy to Iraq for a third tour of combat duty as a front line infantryman in an illegal war of aggression.  The 1945 Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunals deemed initiating a war of aggression to be the most serious war crime for being the action that spurs all other war crimes.

 

I would like to remind everyone of another "Deserter's" story ... that of George W. Bush.  To this day no one can account for the one year or more of required duty he missed during a time of war in 1972-1973 while other young Americans like Sgt. Keller were serving and dying in Vietnam.  Rather than face any punishment, let alone the death penalty, George W. Bush ended up President of the United States.

 

What's even more obscene is that five years ago this Monday, our Vietnam War "Deserter in Chief" knowingly lied to our troops, our military families, our country and the world about "Iraq seeking Uranium from Africa" so that he could get the support of the people for the Project for a New American Century neocons' pre-planned war on Iraq.

 

The 16 infamous words of that 2003 State of the Union were previously removed from Bush's speech due to our intelligence agencies not being able to support the claim.  Neocon Deputy National Security Advisor Steven Hadley re-inserted the claim into the State of the Union knowing that the claim was false ... and his punishment after being found out was a promotion to our country's top National Security Advisor.  Hadley is now making similar unsubstantiated WMD claims about Iran, the country next on the PNAC's September 2000 agenda.

 

The American people must live up to our role of self-governance by turning off our TV sets, getting involved and demanding accountability through Impeachment hearings as provided for in our Constitution ... the same Constitution that our soldiers swore their oaths of enlistment to "support and defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic".