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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I don’t know why this guy is a
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<h1><b><font size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:24.0pt'>Vermont
Congress candidate calls on Pentagon to arrest Bush, Cheney<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Saturday, September 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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The antiwar <st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region>
vet is a Republican, but he has won approval from the State of <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vermont</st1:place></st1:State> to run on the
ballot line “Impeach Bush Now,” rather than Democrat or Republican.
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>"American forces are apparently already active inside <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and Naval
forces have received orders to deploy to that country," Morrisseau said.
"The President has NO AUTHORITY to attack the nation of <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region> whatsoever, in the absence of a full,
formal Declaration of War on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>
by the sitting Congress." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Morrisseau said any order for an attack upon <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region> 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." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h2><b><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Letter
to General Pace of the Joint Chiefs<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h2>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Morrisseau wrote that "<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region> 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." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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."
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h2><b><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>October
Surprise<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h2>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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 <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
western coast. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>This information follows a report in the current issue of <em><i><font
face="Times New Roman">Time</font></i></em>, that a group of ships capable of
mining harbors has received orders to be ready to sail for the <st1:place
w:st="on">Persian Gulf</st1:place> by October 1st.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>As <em><i><font face="Times New Roman">Time</font></i></em> 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."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>According to Lieut. Mike Kafka, a spokesman at the headquarters of the
Second Fleet, based in <st1:City w:st="on">Norfolk</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Virginia</st1:State>, the Eisenhower Strike Group, bristling with
Tomahawk cruise missiles, has received recent orders to depart the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
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 <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region> on or around October 21st. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h2><b><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Anti
Vietnam War Veteran<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h2>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Second 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 <st1:place w:st="on">South East Asia</st1:place>.
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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h2><b><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Statement
by Morrisseau<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h2>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I'm an old war horse and a candidate for the U.S. House of
Representatives from <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vermont</st1:place></st1:State>
who believes we must impeach Bush and Cheney, and we must remove the
neoconservative cabal from power. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Our great nation has suffered a coup. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Our leaders are very happy to have us believe otherwise. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>But no president can govern at all without the full cooperation of
Congress. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Morrisseau campaign website—<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="http://www.2LTMorrisseau.com">http://www.2LTMorrisseau.com</a>
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