[Vision2020] Candidate, Former Marine, Says Bush Should Be Impeached

[Tom Hansen]

>From today's Army times (www.ArmyTimes.com) 

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Candidate, former Marine, says Bush should be impeached

By Rick Maze
Times staff writer

A former Marine running for the U.S. Senate says President Bush should be
impeached for taking the nation to war in Iraq.

Carl Sheller, running as a Democratic candidate in the Rhode Island primary,
wants his fellow Democratic candidates to join him in urging the state's two
Democratic congressmen, Patrick Kennedy and James Langevin, to co-sponsor a
resolution calling for Bush's impeachment. The resolution, HRes 635, is
sponsored by Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., and has 24 co-sponsors. 

It calls for creation of a committee to investigate possible impeachment
charges against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for misleading
Congress and the American public about reasons for beginning military
operations against Iraq.

Sheller, a former Marine captain, said in a statement that he faults the
Bush administration for many things, among them being wrong on defense and
national security issues.

"Bush lied about being strong on defense," Sheller said. "His military
spending shortchanges combat troops and veterans while enriching cronies and
contractors."

Sheller's campaign has paid for billboards along Interstate 95 in Rhode
Island calling for Bush's impeachment.

Sheller was a Marine combat and staff officer in the early 1990s, mostly in
the reserves, were he was an armor officer. He was mobilized in support of
Operation Desert Storm, although he did not see combat. He was a family
liaison officer. 

In a letter to Rhode Island veterans last summer seeking their support for
his campaign, Sheller summed up his service in one sentence: "Often, I
served well and sometimes I fell on my sword."

Sheller said he joined the Marine Corps after missing out on a nomination to
the U.S. Air Force Academy because of a broken wrist.

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The state motto of Rhode Island is "Hope".  I believe we can add a
heart-felt "Semper Fi" to it as well.

Pro patria,

Tom "Proud to be a Veteran" Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"I love my country but fear my government."

- Author Unknown