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Title: Vermont Congress candidate calls on Pentagon to arrest Bush, Cheney
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The Bridge
URL Source: http://bridgenews.org/news/092006/morrisseau/newsitem_view
Published: Sep 27, 2006
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2006-09-27 00:41:52 by Horse
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Vermont Congress candidate calls on Pentagon to arrest Bush, Cheney Saturday, Septmber 23— Former Army Lieutenant and candidate for Congress in Vermont, Dennis Morrisseau, today called for the arrest of President Bush and Vice President Cheney by the American military "if necessary" to prevent an unauthorized attack upon the nation of Iran. The antiwar Vietnam vet is a Republican, but he has won approval from the State of Vermont to run on the ballot line “Impeach Bush Now,” rather than Democrat or Republican. "American forces are apparently already active inside Iran, and Naval forces have received orders to deploy to that country," Morrisseau said. "The President has NO AUTHORITY to attack the nation of Iran whatsoever, in the absence of a full, formal Declaration of War on Iran by the sitting Congress." Morrisseau said any order for an attack upon Iran or to deploy naval forces to its coastal waters is illegal, and called upon officers of the American military to "First, refuse to obey such an order. If the president persists and insists on ordering our forces into combat in or over Iran without a formal Declaration of War, then I call upon you, General Pace, as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and upon such other military officers as clearly see their duty in these circumstances to detain both the President and Vice President, until such time as the Congress shall act." Letter to General Pace of the Joint ChiefsMorrisseau, who was court-martialled for opposition to the Vietnam War in 1968, said he has written to General Pace to ask for the intervention of the military. "In spite of my opposition to the Vietnam War and the court-martial which we ultimately defeated, I was a good soldier who had the respect of my superior officers throughout the ordeal. And they had mine!" Morrisseau said. "There are many many, very, very decent people in the active duty military. I know this," he said " people who love their country and democracy too, and hate war." Morrisseau wrote that "Iran is no present threat to us or anyone. Their right to enrich uranium under treaties signed by us for the production of nuclear power is clear: and that is all they have so far done. An attack upon that nation now by us, acting alone will constitute an illegal war of aggression under international law. It is illegal under our law as well. I urge you to so advise the President," Morrisseau wrote to Pace, "and urge that he take no such actions. In particular, he must not act in the absense of a full, formal, responsible War Declaration by Congress. That is the Constitutional requirement." If he and Cheney persist, Morrisseau wrote, "than the country must rely upon you, Sir, and our armed forces generally, to resist all illegal orders by Bush or Cheney, and take the gentlemen into custody if necessary." October SurpriseMorrissaeu's website notes that the Bush Administration and the Pentagon have issued orders for a major "strike group" of ships, including the nuclear aircraft carrier Eisenhower as well as a cruiser, destroyer, frigate, submarine escort and supply ship, to head for the Persian Gulf, just off Iran's western coast. This information follows a report in the current issue of Time, that a group of ships capable of mining harbors has received orders to be ready to sail for the Persian Gulf by October 1st. As Time writes in its cover story "What Would War Look Like?" evidence of the forward deployment of minesweepers and word that the chief of naval operations had asked for a reworking of old plans for mining Iranian harbors "suggest that a much discussed—but until now largely theoretical—prospect has become real: that the U.S. may be preparing for war with Iran." According to Lieut. Mike Kafka, a spokesman at the headquarters of the Second Fleet, based in Norfolk, Virginia, the Eisenhower Strike Group, bristling with Tomahawk cruise missiles, has received recent orders to depart the United States in a little over a week. Other official sources in the public affairs office of the Navy Department at the Pentagon confirm that this powerful armada is scheduled to arrive off the coast of Iran on or around October 21st. Anti Vietnam War VeteranSecond Lieutenant Dennis Morrisseau was arrested and court-martialled as an Army 2nd lieutenant for repeatedly speaking out in uniform against the Vietnam War, then refusing shipment to South East Asia. His legal team defeated the court-martial and he was allowed to resign his commission in early 1968. The court-martial charges called for 5 years in prison at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. Statement by MorrisseauI'm an old war horse and a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Vermont who believes we must impeach Bush and Cheney, and we must remove the neoconservative cabal from power. Our great nation has suffered a coup. And there is an immediate need for action and for the piercing of illusions. We need to step across old political boundaries and ideas. Who cares about "Democrats" vs. "Republicans"? The leadership of both parties is thoroughly corrupt. And that "leadership" exercises its power through control of Congress, not the presidency. Presidents are figureheads and presidential elections are "bread and circuses." In our American system, Congress rules because Congress makes the laws and Congress writes the checks that fund all government activity. Our leaders are very happy to have us believe otherwise. But no president can govern at all without the full cooperation of Congress. The 109th Congress and its leaders of both parties are fully complicit in all actions taken so far by the Bush administration, no matter what they say for public consumption. Their true loyalty is to their fellow senators and representatives and their corporate backers and not to us. Morrisseau campaign website— http://www.2LTMorrisseau.com
Poster Comment: Please note that he is a Republican. The biggest growth potential for the anti-war movement is amongst Republicans. I am a lifelong Republican who never voted for anyone named Bush, because I refuse to vote for anyone who is a member of the CFR, the Trilateral Commission or the Bilderberg Society.
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#1. To: Horse (#0)
I don't care what party or affiliation this person is Dennis Morrisseau MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND GIVE US MORE LIKE YOU
The second that Cheney and Bush are arrested by the military, wouldn't our nation then be under Martial Law?
#2. To: Horse (#0)
 | What's that Mr. Nipples? You want me to ask the nice lady about her rack?. |
#3. To: Horse (#0)
Document Actions Former Army Lieutenant and candidate for Congress in Vermont, Dennis Morrisseau, today called for the arrest of President Bush and Vice President Cheney by the American military "if necessary" to prevent an unauthorized attack upon the nation of Iran. The antiwar Vietnam vet is a Republican, but he has won approval from the State of Vermont to run on the ballot line “Impeach Bush Now,” rather than Democrat or Republican. "American forces are apparently already active inside Iran, and Naval forces have received orders to deploy to that country," Morrisseau said. "The President has NO AUTHORITY to attack the nation of Iran whatsoever, in the absence of a full, formal Declaration of War on Iran by the sitting Congress." Morrisseau said any order for an attack upon Iran or to deploy naval forces to its coastal waters is illegal, and called upon officers of the American military to "First, refuse to obey such an order. If the president persists and insists on ordering our forces into combat in or over Iran without a formal Declaration of War, then I call upon you, General Pace, as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and upon such other military officers as clearly see their duty in these circumstances to detain both the President and Vice President, until such time as the Congress shall act." Letter to General Pace of the Joint Chiefs Morrisseau, who was court-martialled for opposition to the Vietnam War in 1968, said he has written to General Pace to ask for the intervention of the military. "In spite of my opposition to the Vietnam War and the court-martial which we ultimately defeated, I was a good soldier who had the respect of my superior officers throughout the ordeal. And they had mine!" Morrisseau said. "There are many many, very, very decent people in the active duty military. I know this," he said " people who love their country and democracy too, and hate war." Morrisseau wrote that "Iran is no present threat to us or anyone. Their right to enrich uranium under treaties signed by us for the production of nuclear power is clear: and that is all they have so far done. An attack upon that nation now by us, acting alone will constitute an illegal war of aggression under international law. It is illegal under our law as well. I urge you to so advise the President," Morrisseau wrote to Pace, "and urge that he take no such actions. In particular, he must not act in the absense of a full, formal, responsible War Declaration by Congress. That is the Constitutional requirement." If he and Cheney persist, Morrisseau wrote, "than the country must rely upon you, Sir, and our armed forces generally, to resist all illegal orders by Bush or Cheney, and take the gentlemen into custody if necessary." October Surprise Morrissaeu's website notes that the Bush Administration and the Pentagon have issued orders for a major "strike group" of ships, including the nuclear aircraft carrier Eisenhower as well as a cruiser, destroyer, frigate, submarine escort and supply ship, to head for the Persian Gulf, just off Iran's western coast. This information follows a report in the current issue of Time, that a group of ships capable of mining harbors has received orders to be ready to sail for the Persian Gulf by October 1st. As Time writes in its cover story "What Would War Look Like?" evidence of the forward deployment of minesweepers and word that the chief of naval operations had asked for a reworking of old plans for mining Iranian harbors "suggest that a much discussed—but until now largely theoretical—prospect has become real: that the U.S. may be preparing for war with Iran." According to Lieut. Mike Kafka, a spokesman at the headquarters of the Second Fleet, based in Norfolk, Virginia, the Eisenhower Strike Group, bristling with Tomahawk cruise missiles, has received recent orders to depart the United States in a little over a week. Other official sources in the public affairs office of the Navy Department at the Pentagon confirm that this powerful armada is scheduled to arrive off the coast of Iran on or around October 21st. Anti Vietnam War VeteranSecond Lieutenant Dennis Morrisseau was arrested and court-martialled as an Army 2nd lieutenant for repeatedly speaking out in uniform against the Vietnam War, then refusing shipment to South East Asia. His legal team defeated the court-martial and he was allowed to resign his commission in early 1968. The court-martial charges called for 5 years in prison at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. Statement by Morrisseau I'm an old war horse and a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Vermont who believes we must impeach Bush and Cheney, and we must remove the neoconservative cabal from power. Our great nation has suffered a coup. And there is an immediate need for action and for the piercing of illusions. We need to step across old political boundaries and ideas. Who cares about "Democrats" vs. "Republicans"? The leadership of both parties is thoroughly corrupt. And that "leadership" exercises its power through control of Congress, not the presidency. Presidents are figureheads and presidential elections are "bread and circuses." In our American system, Congress rules because Congress makes the laws and Congress writes the checks that fund all government activity. Our leaders are very happy to have us believe otherwise. But no president can govern at all without the full cooperation of Congress. The 109th Congress and its leaders of both parties are fully complicit in all actions taken so far by the Bush administration, no matter what they say for public consumption. Their true loyalty is to their fellow senators and representatives and their corporate backers and not to us. modified 2006-09-25 Morrisseau campaign website— http://www.2LTMorrisseau.com
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#4. To: All, BTP Holdings (#3)
FYI
#5. To: Horse (#0)
May the Green Mountain Boys rise again! I'm sure I can find some money around here somewhere to contribute to the cause.
Statement by Morrisseau I'm an old war horse and a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Vermont who believes we must impeach Bush and Cheney, and we must remove the neoconservative cabal from power. Our great nation has suffered a coup. And there is an immediate need for action and for the piercing of illusions. We need to step across old political boundaries and ideas. Who cares about "Democrats" vs. "Republicans"? The leadership of both parties is thoroughly corrupt. And that "leadership" exercises its power through control of Congress, not the presidency. Presidents are figureheads and presidential elections are "bread and circuses." In our American system, Congress rules because Congress makes the laws and Congress writes the checks that fund all government activity. Our leaders are very happy to have us believe otherwise. But no president can govern at all without the full cooperation of Congress. The 109th Congress and its leaders of both parties are fully complicit in all actions taken so far by the Bush administration, no matter what they say for public consumption. Their true loyalty is to their fellow senators and representatives and their corporate backers and not to us. Morrisseau campaign website— http://www.2LTMorrisseau.com
#6. To: Horse (#0)
Bush, Cheney, and anyone else involved in the creation of the North American Union/SPP and the shadow government that Corsi has just gone public about (he just got 1000 pages of info from a FOIA request), should be arrested for TREASON. What they are promoting and executing in this country is T R E A S O N. It has gone beyond malfeasance or just simple impeachment.
"I woke up in the CRAZY HOUSE."
#7. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt, It Is A Republic, ALL (#5)
yes! yes! yes! i wish i could fit that in my tagline space!
Who cares about "Democrats" vs. "Republicans"? The leadership of both parties is thoroughly corrupt. And that "leadership" exercises its power through control of Congress, not the presidency. Presidents are figureheads and presidential elections are "bread and circuses." In our American system, Congress rules because Congress makes the laws and Congress writes the checks that fund all government activity. Our leaders are very happy to have us believe otherwise. But no president can govern at all without the full cooperation of Congress. The 109th Congress and its leaders of both parties are fully complicit in all actions taken so far by the Bush administration, no matter what they say for public consumption. Their true loyalty is to their fellow senators and representatives and their corporate backers and not to us.
#8. To: christine, AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#7)
Careful christine, as long winded as 'the horse the King rode in on' is in his posts, you might tempt him to tagline that quote. Some people don't leave stuff on the cutting room floor well. You have to remember whom you are talking to when you say things like that. /teasing
#9. To: Horse (#0)
Can you or someone paragraph this story??? These old eyes are no longer able to read in this fashion.
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#10. To: angle (#3)
I should have read farther, thanks for format.
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#11. To: Horse (#0)
The Pentagon brass received their stars by groveling at the feet of presidents, surely the court jesters are not expected to bite the hand that promoted them?
Vermont Congress candidate calls on Pentagon to arrest Bush, Cheney Saturday, Septmber 23
#12. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#2)
I'd think presidential succession would work its way down through the cabinet and congress, though we'd have to go through quite a few frogs before we found a prince. In my understanding, martial law is used at the request of the president to quell popular uprisings or maintain order in case of natural (or unnatural) disasters. The majority of people would probably be fine with having Cheney and Bush arrested, so I can't imagine why they'd need troops in the streets.
The second that Cheney and Bush are arrested by the military, wouldn't our nation then be under Martial Law?
"GM is not a car company, it's a bank that gives free cars to its customers when they take out a loan."--Magorn.
#13. To: christine (#7)
He left out the ongoing oversized bureaucracy with their Public Service Union protections with tremendous power and money behind them already in place when each President takes office. Those bureaucratic agencies have their own agendas and struggles with other agencies for a bigger tit and powerbase.
#14. To: Horse (#0)
Thanks for the link - help this guy if you can.
#15. To: Cynicom (#11)
Good point but how come this pious loyalty to Presidents only applies to US top brass? I mean in other countries, generals have no problem whatsoever pulling off a coup against "their boss" with whom they did lunch the day before. Maybe in other countries the top brass have more ambition - when they "do coup" they do it to promote themselves???
The Pentagon brass received their stars by groveling at the feet of presidents, surely the court jesters are not expected to bite the hand that promoted them?
#16. To: Indrid Cold (#12)
What are you kidding? They'd declare Martial Law to bring order out of the chaos that would ensue after the celebration started.
The majority of people would probably be fine with having Cheney and Bush arrested, so I can't imagine why they'd need troops in the streets.
| What's that Mr. Nipples? You want me to ask the nice lady about her rack?. |
#17. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#16)
Well played, old man.
What are you kidding? They'd declare Martial Law to bring order out of the chaos that would ensue after the celebration started.
"GM is not a car company, it's a bank that gives free cars to its customers when they take out a loan."--Magorn.
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