LT. Col. Robert Bowman at American Scholars Symposium pt 1

Robert M. Bowman (born 1934) was the former Director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the U.S. Air Force in the Ford and Carter administrations, and a former United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 101 combat missions. He holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

Despite his involvement with space programs and defense, he emerged as an early public critic of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, also aka "Star Wars") during the Ronald Reagan administration. On The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, he called it "the ultimate military lunacy, easily overwhelmed and vulnerable".[3] Bowman founded the Institute for Space and Security Studies, and its publication Space & Security News (1983) (ISSN 1071-2569), and authored two books on the subject of SDI. He is also a critic of an outgrowth of the SDI program, the Bush administration's proposed National Missile Defense.[4]

For several years he has been active with Veterans for Peace and Vietnam Veterans Against the War as a speaker.[5][6][7] He had also been a member of the Peace Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.[8]

In 1998, Project Censored cited Bowman's article "Our Continuing War Against Iraq," in the May 1998 issue of Space and Security News as one of the few (along with Bill Blum of the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Dennis Bernstein) covering what they deemed the fifth most censored story, "U.S. Weapons of Mass Destruction Linked to the Deaths of Half a Million Children."[9] The WMDs referred to are the biological samples sent to Iraq from the United States up to 1989, and use of depleted uranium during the Gulf War.

He is a member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, founded in January 2006 by James H. Fetzer. Because of the beliefs Bowman holds regarding U.S. complicity in the September 11, 2001 attacks, he is also part of the movement to impeach George W. Bush. He spoke at a September 11, 2005 rally in New York City held by members of the New York 9/11 Truth Movement.[10]

More recently, Dr. Bowman joined Veterans for 9/11 Truth.
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[RyderSpearmann]

I met Dr. Bowman long ago during the Reagan years when he was fighting SDI with every breath.

I went to see Dr. Bowman at every opportunity, and argued for his positions on the "net" long before there was an "internet" and world wide web.

And I was wrong.

Dr. Bowman did not have the vision to see how SDI was destined to play a key role in reducing the threat of nuclear war, and defeating the Soviet Union.

Dr. Bowman claimed it would bring WWIII.

He was wrong. Very, very, wrong.

[brainphreak]

So what your saying is... he was not accurate at predicting the future? haha

Also do you really think that SDI reduced the threat of Nuclear war? SDI still hasnt even been proven useful to this day? Even if you look it up, wikipedia has this to say

"Though it was never completely developed or deployed, the research and technologies of SDI paved the way for some anti-ballistic missile systems of today. "

So yes the "technology" may have paved the way to the inevitable anti-ballistic missiles

[brainphreak]

So what your saying is... he was not accurate at predicting the future? haha

Also do you really think that SDI reduced the threat of Nuclear war? SDI still hasnt even been proven useful to this day? Even if you look it up, wikipedia has this to say

"Though it was never completely developed or deployed, the research and technologies of SDI paved the way for some anti-ballistic missile systems of today."

So yes the "technology" may have paved the way to the inevitable anti-ballistic missiles

[PeterHXX]

Brainphreak, an observation: You are certainly well versed on the details of evidence. Great! But you may not see the bigger picture, and disinfo agents will use that against you. lt5lee happily engages you in fruitless argument because you unwittingly help him draw attention away from what's important. We all know the official story is a lie and we now need to focus our attention on who's responsible. Let's all work toward exposing the real purpose behind 911 and the war on terror.

[brainphreak]

true, I deleted most of his off topic comments now. Its such a waste of time

[Tubamir]

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come!"

Victor Hugo

[lostinantartica]

Ron Paul is the closest thing we have to the Founding Fathers! The MSM has been brainwashing and dumbing up Americans for decades. America needs people - not sheeple. Defeat the four-headed establishment Frankenstein monster known as Huckney McCainiani; and crush Billary. I'm an American and I believe in Liberty and the Constitution. Vote Ron Paul!

[zach87100]

why is the truth being silenced sounds like fascism to me,wake up America!

[yourmumstube78]

why so few views ? youtube up to its old tricks again ?

[centurion180ad]

Correct, it is TREASON.

[VideoMilitia]

@majikninja07 That is what I just said. And no, they did not have a habit of slaughter tens of millions of their own. That was the past.  it would be like saying the US has a habit of enslaving blacks, which is not true, although it was in the past. The final reason for the collapse is simply that communist systems are inherently weak when compared to capitalist republics. It did not take much to push them over the edge, but push we did, and SDI was the centerpiece to that effort.

[majikninja07]

@VideoMilitia the soviet system collapsed because they built a billion nukes, had many nuke stations mobile 24/7/365, had the most tanks of any country ever and had habits of slaughter tens of millions of their population in a fairly low population for how much land it controlled, and had more missions to space to say sdi 's possible weaponization of space was the reason is stupid and the possible out come would have been nuke ww3 great ideal

[VideoMilitia]

@majikninja07 - a defense that is formidable enough to cause an enemy to simply give up... or to cause them to expend resources to such a degree as to build an effective offensive capability that strains their economic foundation to the point of collapse...

In other words, they took themselves down... in a game they were not prepared to play.

[majikninja07]

@RyderSpearmann so your saying that a defense organization took down the soviets? and not the economic terrorist that are running around the western world now?