Dear Editor,
Here is an appeal to people with a conscience to face the reasons for 9/11.
Sept. 11 was used to justify the destruction and occupation of Iraq, a nation that had no proven link to 9/11. This is lynching a crowd of innocent bystanders.
The root cause of 9/11 was the federal government distributing weapons that killed, burned, crippled, maimed and destroyed the lives of millions of people in the Middle and Far East, Central and South America and Africa.
Picture children screaming in agony, eardrums blown out from the concussion of bombs made for profit in the United States.
Americans wondering why 9/11 occurred should ask, “How many hundred billion dollars of weapons did America ship to the Middle East?” and “How many weapons did the people of the Middle East ever send to America?”
President Eisenhower warn-ed about the military industrial complex that now loots the U.S. Treasury and terrorizes distant people to the vagaries of the U.S. president.
Willie Nelson’s new peace song says the war was sold by “a liar telling lies on TV.”
Was a nation just turned into a bloodbath of explosions, gunfire, and carnage because a president lied? Is a liar leading Americans down a toilet of misery by making more revenge- seeking blood enemies for America?
If foreigners invaded and destroyed your country and killed many thousands of innocents would you join the resistance and fight the occupying soldiers?
Would you let foreigners install a puppet government and create a police state of 200,000 paid collaborators?
I am a Napa Valley tour guide and talk to people from all over the world.
Most tourists I meet from other countries are disgusted with American militarism. Beyond the borders people think Americans are greedy and evil. The United States is called “the arms supermarket of the world.” The way for Americans to restore their honor in the world is to end the shameful occupation and impose an absolute embargo on the export of weapons from the United States.
John Mackesy
Middletown, Calif.

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