Joseph DuRocher: Letter to President Bush [Candide's Notebooks]

Joseph DuRocher: Letter to President Bush [Candide's Notebooks]:

... I return enclosed the symbols of my years of service: the shoulder boards of my rank and my Naval Aviator’s wings.

Until your administration, I believed it was inconceivable that the United States would ever initiate an aggressive and preemptive war against a country that posed no threat to us. Until your administration, I thought it was impossible for our nation to take hundreds of persons into custody without provable charges of any kind ...

Can a former naval officer be anti-troops, or is he finally one person who can be anti-Bush without being labeled anti-American?