Monterey Vet needs help vs Military

Let's NOT allow him to be silenced re 9-11.

(Reuters, June 4) "Air Force Officer Suspended Criticizing Bush"

This officer, a fighter pilot veteran of the Gulf War, is being charged for writing a letter pointing to Bush as letting 9-11 happen for political reasons. This is completely unfair as many military people criticized
Clinton during his administration.

Thank you in advance for working to get this out. Congressional emails/faxes below. ALSO, please post this appeal and article on bulletin boards, discussion groups, etc. etc.

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Air Force Officer Suspended Criticizing Bush
Tue Jun 4, 9:04 PM ET

MONTEREY, Calif. (Reuters) - A U.S. Air Force officer has been suspended from duty after he wrote a letter to a California newspaper accusing President Bush (news - web sites) of allowing the Sept. 11 attacks to happen "because he needed this war on terrorism," a military official said on Tuesday.

Lt. Colonel Steve Butler was relieved of his duties as vice chancellor for student affairs at the Defense Language Institute pending an investigation into his letter, which was published in the Monterey County Herald on May 26, a military spokesman said.

Butler's letter accused Bush -- the commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces -- of allowing the Sept. 11 attacks to occur for his own political ends.

"Of course Bush knew about the impending attacks on America. He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on terrorism. His
daddy had Saddam and he needed Osama," Butler's letter said.

"His presidency was going nowhere. He wasn't elected by the American people, but placed into the Oval Office by the conservative Supreme Court...the
economy was sliding into the usual Republican pits and he needed something to hang his presidency on."

Butler, a 24-year Air Force veteran who served as a combat pilot during the 1990 Gulf War (news - web sites), was not immediately available for comment.

His wife, Shelly Butler, told the Herald on Tuesday that the military had given her husband "a lot of grief" over the letter and reassigned him to temporary duty at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California.

She said he planned to retire in several weeks.

Butler's suspension was apparently based on Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which says that any commissioned officer who uses "contemptuous words" against the president or other senior officials may be punished by a court-martial.

The Monterey Herald said that the last Article 88 court-martial came in 1965 when an Army second lieutenant was prosecuted for taking part in an anti-war protest in Texas, although the Pentagon had "quietly issued" memos reminding officers of the Article 88 provisions after President Clinton became embroiled in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, prompting a number of articles and letters to the editor from military officers.

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