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Bush Denigrates ‘War on Terror’ Veterans
American Greatness ^ | September 13, 2021 | Julie Kelly

Posted on 09/14/2021 7:08:01 AM PDT by Heartlander

Bush Denigrates ‘War on Terror’ Veterans

Backers of America’s costly “War on Terror” seek the approbation of their one-time enemies at the expense of those who heeded their calls to defend the country.

On September 11, 2001, Flight 93 reportedly was headed for Washington, D.C. when Americans attempted but failed to overcome Islamic terrorists who planned to use the hijacked plane as a missile against the U.S. Capitol building. The plane crashed in a field outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Twenty years later, George W. Bush stood on that same ground and compared patriotic Americans at the U.S. Capitol protesting a hijacked presidential election to the Islamic terrorists who murdered nearly 3,000 innocent people on 9/11. Bush’s “War on Terror” came full circle, realizing the worst fears of his legion of haters from the time—the same people now praising his “courage” in confronting imaginary domestic terrorists.

“[W]e have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come not only across borders but from violence that gathers within,” Bush said Saturday. “There’s little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. But in their disdain for pluralism, in their disregard of human life, in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit, and it is our continuing duty to confront them.”

Now, one might reasonably assume Bush was addressing leftist protesters who burned down cities, tore down monuments, and brutally attacked innocents in the summer of 2020. Perhaps Bush’s condemnation of those who “disregard . . . human life” was meant for the thugs who murdered retired police captain David Dorn last summer?

Nope. The former president wasn’t talking about Antifa or Black Lives Matter. Bush, in fact, attempted to justify the summer 2020 riots: “Looting is not liberation, and destruction is not progress,” he said in a June 2, 2020 statement. “But we also know that lasting peace in our communities requires truly equal justice. The rule of law ultimately depends on the fairness and legitimacy of the legal system. And achieving justice for all is the duty of all.”

The term Bush used on 9/11—“violent extremist”—applies to Americans who were in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021. Don’t take my word for it. Take the word of Avril Haines, Joe Biden’s director of national intelligence.

In March, Haines issued an urgent bulletin warning “domestic violent extremists” pose a heightened threat to the homeland. “Newer sociopolitical developments—such as narratives of fraud in the recent general election, the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the US Capitol, conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and conspiracy theories promoting violence—will almost certainly spur some DVEs to try to engage in violence this year.”

A sketch of the U.S. Capitol building was included in the document.

“Domestic violent extremist” is code for Donald Trump and his supporters, particularly those who were involved in the January 6 protest on Capitol Hill. It is the official position of the Biden regime. In addition to Haines’ missive, FBI Director Christopher Wray designated January 6 as an act of “domestic terror” and Attorney General Merrick Garland compared January 6 to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

Bush has echoed the Democrats’ carefully-constructed narrative about the events of January 6 from the start. “The violent assault on the Capitol—and disruption of a Constitutionally-mandated meeting of Congress—was undertaken by people whose passions have been inflamed by falsehoods and false hopes,” George and Laura Bush wrote in a statement released around 6:00 p.m. on January 6. “Insurrection could do grave damage to our Nation and reputation.”

Who exactly does George W. Bush consider a “domestic terrorist”? At least 50 veterans so far have been charged in the Justice Department’s Capitol breach investigation; it’s impossible to know how many veterans of the two major wars launched by George W. Bush attended the rallies on January 6.

Maybe Bush was referring to Ashli Babbitt, the unarmed Air Force veteran shot and killed in the Capitol building by a Capitol police officer? Babbitt heeded Bush’s call to protect and defend the country after the 9/11 attacks; her mother had to sign a waiver to enroll Ashli in the military at age 17. “September 11 strengthened her conviction to serve,” Mikki Witthoeft told me in July.

Babbitt graduated from high school in 2003, served in the Air Force for 14 years with four tours overseas, including stints in Iraq and Afghanistan. A devoted soldier in Bush’s “War on Terror,” Ashli was awarded the Iraq Campaign Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal.

And on the 20-year anniversary of 9/11, her former commander-in-chief compared her to an Islamic terrorist.

Perhaps Bush meant Robert Morss, an Army Ranger with three tours in Afghanistan? Morss sustained severe back injuries from enduring extensive combat training and jumping out of planes in the war-torn country. “My boy entered the U.S. Army at 17 and came home four years later, almost broken,” his mother, Angela, wrote in a plea to help defray his legal costs. He also suffers from PTSD and night terrors, she said.

Morss returned home from Bush’s war, graduated from Penn State University, and was teaching high school history classes when the FBI raided his home and arrested him for his involvement in the Capitol protest.

Morss has been denied bail and is incarcerated in a D.C. jail set aside for January 6 defendants. “At a recent hearing, the Judge stated that one reason Robert should not be released on bond is because of his military training,” Angela wrote. (This is true; I reported on his hearing.) “The U.S. Government recruited and trained Robert only to now hold it against him.” He has been fired from his job.

And the president who launched the war in which Robert Morss admirably served—a war that inflicted physical and emotional injuries he will suffer forever—just called him a “violent extremist.”

At least a dozen veterans of Bush’s wars are currently held in the Deplorable Jail, including Jeffery McKellop, a retired Green Beret with deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. Here’s how his defense attorneys described McKellop in a motion requesting his release. “Mr. McKellop served a total of nearly twenty-two and a half years of active-duty service. Mr. McKellop spent 9 years of his service in the Special Forces. During Mr. McKellop’s twenty-two and a half years of active service, Mr. McKellop received numerous Decorations, Medals, Badges, Citations and Campaign Ribbons, including the 3 Bronze Stars and a Meritorious Service Award.”

McKellop has been in jail since March. He has no trial date.

So if, as Bush claims, these honorable veterans suddenly became domestic terrorists on January 6, the question is, why? Could it be that George W. Bush himself shares some if not most of the blame?

His two wars cost the lives of more than 7,000 U.S. servicemen and women and grievously wounded tens of thousands more. American taxpayers spent trillions to fight the “War on Terror” and now have very little to show for it. While Bush was on his reckless “nation-building” mission in the Middle East, towns and communities in the Midwest were decimated by his open-borders brand of “compassionate conservatism.”

Now, Bush’s compassion only exists for illegal immigrants, Afghan refugees, and George Floyd rioters. He has offered no apology for the destruction he’s inflicted both here and overseas. Infuriatingly, Bush delivered no official statement to mourn the murder of 13 U.S. servicemen killed in Kabul on August 26 by bona fide violent extremists.

Bush, the Cheney family, the McCain family, and other backers of America’s costly “War on Terror” seek the approbation of their one-time enemies at the expense of those who heeded their calls to defend the country. These masters of deflection, desperate to memoryhole their own failures, crassly join the Democrats in weaponizing the events of January 6.

Just more collateral damage.


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
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See also: Exclusive: Ashli Babbitt’s Mom Responds to George W. Bush
“George Bush, the Nation I know does not shoot unarmed protesters. The nation I know does not persecute protesters for political gain. The nation I know does not deny due process. The nation I know does not withhold evidence. The nation I know does not support lies told by the MSM.”

“Mr Bush, many of the noblest did hear the nation’s call on 9/11 many of them the same noble veterans that heard the call on 1/6 and went to DC to simply have their voices heard. My daughter, Ashli Babbitt was among both groups. Our sitting government still has many patriots jailed for exercising their American born right to protest. Veterans being denied rights they fought and were willing to die for. It was your voice that Ashli and many other young men and women heard and answered. Shame on you for comparing these 2 days in history. You should have your speech writers dig a little deeper before you push the lies of team Pelosi forward. The Americans that showed up for all of us to protest a corrupt establishment were met with violence-death-imprisonment and complete abuse of power.”


1 posted on 09/14/2021 7:08:01 AM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander

I’m sorry I ever voted for that anus.

His grandpa was a nazi banker. His dad was CIA and in on the JFL murder. He was a cokehead party boy. He stepped in and did anything the globalists said. When Saudi Arabia attacked America, he said “Islam is peace” and attacked Iraq that had nothing to do with it.

He differs from Obama mainly in cultural cues such as decorations on the Christmas tree. You want your elitist one world government with a sometimes fake ghetto accent and sometimes Boston blue blood accent? Or you want it with a Texas accent?

Either way, you get elitist one-world government.


2 posted on 09/14/2021 7:31:42 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: Heartlander

And these low life ex-presidents. The treat us to endless assaholic lectures about unity, and “all in this together”, then at every event like 9/11 service, funeral services, they exclude President Trump.

They all stand together and won’t even act superficially courteous.

Eff all these people. We the American people need to bring DC to it’s knees, AND soon.


3 posted on 09/14/2021 7:34:16 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: Heartlander

G W A**hole...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ynG7bcH6ss


4 posted on 09/14/2021 7:37:57 AM PDT by HippyLoggerBiker (Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake. )
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To: Heartlander

So, what he is saying is that all those young people that he committed to die in Afghanistan were actually terrorists? So, was that how he planned to wage his war on terrorism?


5 posted on 09/14/2021 7:38:27 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: DesertRhino

>>>I’m sorry I ever voted for that anus.<<<

Don’t kick yourself too hard . . . it was a true instance of the lessor of two evils. How much more damage would AlGore have done? Though it appears in hindsight that they were really both birds of the same feather.


6 posted on 09/14/2021 7:40:00 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Heartlander

I respected George W for how he handled the war on terrorism after 9/11. He declared war on them and then stepped out of the way and let the military take over. After that, because the whole Bush clan seems to support global governance I lost respect for him.


7 posted on 09/14/2021 8:02:06 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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for him to compare the human suffering that happened on 9-11 to a protest....sorry, i hope he dies a miserable death....he looks like hes on his last leg anyway.....hes filth.


8 posted on 09/14/2021 8:04:06 AM PDT by basalt
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To: antidemoncrat

No, actually he did not declare war on them.

We were attacked by Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia was the only nation not attacked in any way after 9/11. We should have nuked Mecca and Medina. The world would be a VERY different place today.
If that’s too mean, we could have easily seized their oilfields. They are all in one are of the east and we could have taken them in a 2 day operation. It would have been child’s play and they could have done nothing to stop up or even slow us down.
If THAT is too mean, we could have detained and arrested everyone we could have grabbed and not help them flee. And we could have seized their bank accounts and properties here in America.

Instead, Bush the idiot attacked Iraq who had nothing to do with it.


9 posted on 09/14/2021 8:25:37 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: DesertRhino

“We were attacked by Saudi Arabia.”

The DC Swamp aka Congre$$ has misled Americans for a long time. They are still hiding their complicity in helping the Democrats steal the 2020 election. The problem is the Democrats now in control of the White House and Congre$$ don’t want to go back to the “you get 4 or 8 years of control and then we get the next 4 or 8 years of control”.


10 posted on 09/14/2021 8:36:01 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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