Vermont candidate to prosecute Bush if she wins (AP)
Dennett, 61, the Progressive Party’s candidate for Vermont Attorney General, said Thursday she will prosecute President Bush for murder if she’s elected Nov. 4.
Dennett, an attorney and investigative journalist, says Bush must be held responsible according to the deaths of thousands of people in Iraq — U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians. She believes the Vermont attorney general would have legal power to carry into effect so.
She also related she would appoint a special prosecutor and even now knows who that should be: framer Los Angeles prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, the author of “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,” a new book.
“Someone has to act forward,” said Dennett, flanked by Bugliosi at a word conference announcing her plan. “Someone has to say we cannot put up with this shortcoming of accountability any more.”
Dennett and pair others are challenging incumbent Attorney General William Sorrell, a Democrat, in the Nov. 4 election.
Bugliosi, 74, who gained fame as the prosecutor of killer Charles Manson, said any state attorney general would have jurisdiction since Bush committed “apparent acts” including the military’s recruitment of soldiers in Vermont and allegedly false hind part before the threat posed by prior Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in speeches that were aired in Vermont and in many.
“No man, even the president of the United States, is above the law,” said Bugliosi.
The White House press office didn’t respond to a request for comment Thursday. But Republican National Committee spokesman Blair Latoff denounced Dennett.
“It’s extremely disappointing that a candidate for state attorney general is more concerned with radical left-wing provocation than upholding the law of Vermont,” Latoff said. “These incendiary suggestions may notch points among the chiefly fringe elements of American society, but can’t be subsidence for anyone looking concerning an attorney general.”
Anti-Bush sentiment runs deep in Vermont. It’s the only state Bush hasn’t visited as president, and one whose liberal tendencies produce it improbable he decree.
In 2007, the recite Senate adopted a resolution calling for Congress to break the ice impeachment proceedings against Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
Last March, the towns of Brattleboro and Marlboro voted to seek indictments against Bush and Cheney over the war, and dozens of other towns voted at town meetings to call for his impeachment.
Sorrell, who is seeking a sixth term, said he doesn’t believe a Vermont attorney general would require the dignity to charge Bush.
“The substantiality is, in my view, that unless the aggravated misdemeanor takes place in Vermont, then I for the reason that the attorney general have in no degree authority under Vermont law to be prosecuting the president,” Sorrell related.
