Bush must be held accountable for the deaths of thousands of Iraqi civilians and US soldiers in Iraq, a Vermont attorney general candidate says.
Charlotte Dennett said she will prosecute the US President George W. Bush for murder if she's elected Nov. 4.
Dennett, an attorney and journalist, believes the Vermont attorney general would have jurisdiction to do such an act.
"Someone has to step forward," she said at a news conference. "Someone has to say we cannot put up with this lack of accountability any more," AP quoted Dennett as saying.
She also said she would appoint a special prosecutor and already knows who that should be: former Los Angeles prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, the author of "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder," a new book.
Bugliosi said any state attorney general would have jurisdiction since Bush committed 'overt acts' including the military's recruitment of soldiers in Vermont and allegedly lying about the threat posed by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in speeches that were aired in Vermont and elsewhere.
Dennett and two others are challenging incumbent Attorney General William Sorrell, a Democrat, in the November 4 election.