Posted on 04/03/2005 10:20:16 PM PDT by hipaatwo
ST. LOUIS--On March 30, a national veterans’ organization called for the removal of President George W. Bush and Vice-President Richard Cheney for crimes the group charges were committed during the invasion and occupation of Iraq. In a letter sent to each member of the US House and Senate, Veterans For Peace (VFP) stated that “...This administration’s war on Iraq, in addition to being increasingly unpopular among Americans, is an unmistakable violation of our Constitution and federal law which you have sworn to uphold. In our system, the remedy for such high crimes is clear: this administration must be impeached.”
David Cline, a decorated Vietnam War combat veteran and VFP president, said in a prepared statement to the press, "We do not make this call lightly and as former members of the US armed forces, we take our responsibilities as citizens very seriously. For that reason we believe that when our government conducts a war of aggression on Iraq and commits a growing and appalling series of what must legally be considered war crimes and crimes against humanity in the execution of that war, it violates Article VI of the US Constitution, the War Crimes Act of 1996 (18 U.S.C. § 2441), and numerous international treaties which are legally binding on our nation."
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimorechronicle.com ...
Veterans For Peace is an official Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) represented at the UN.
Why do they have a representation at the UN?!!!!!!!!
"Veterans For Peace was founded in 1985, as a non-profit 501c3 educational organization and recognized as a United Nations Non-Governmental Organization in 1990.
VFP is a 501(c)3 organization. All contributions are
tax deductible."
Isn't this just sickening?! An anti-American organization in the US to have preferential tax status, is considered "educational" and is recognized as an NGO at the UN.
Classified Photo of Kerry and Fonda at Anti-War Rally Due to sensitive nature can not be shown here.
(Veterans For Peace)
a.k.a. veterans for tyrants, Veterans for Terrorists... Pretty son we're going to get Catholics for Atheism, Catholics for Satan, Teachers for Illiteracy...
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Nam Vet
Thanx.
Fools, all a 'em.
I hope all the loony left folks blow their money wad donating to these guys. It'll just make'em look worse, and they have 0 chance getting ANYWHERE with this.
Actually Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert followed by president pro temore of the Senate, Ted Stevens, then Condi.
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I think you're partly right - I think they're partly funded by the Tides Foundation - which is the "shove it" person's organization .. or this Veterans for Peace is just another of the tentacles from the Soros - Open Society mess.
The Soros groups are the ones pushing for "impeachment" - this is their 3rd try.
Hanoi John: Kerry and the Antiwar Movement’s Communist Connections
The VVAW had been founded in New York in 1967 by Vietnam veteran Jan Barry Crumb, who called himself Jan Barry. Barry’s involvement in the antiwar movement began in April 1967 when he attended the April 7 Peace Parade. The parade had been organized by the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee (FAVPPC). The FAVPPC was led by Norma Becker, a member of a Communist front group called the War Resisters League (WRL), and it operated out of the same 5 Beekman Street address as numerous inter-related Communist front groups and fellow-travelling groups, such as the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), the Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA), and the Catholic Peace Fellowship (CPF). It was described in a 1970 Congressional report as “dominated by communists”.80 Participating in the FAVPPC’s rally were some members of Veterans for Peace (VFP), an outgrowth of American Veterans for Peace (AVP), an antiwar group which the Communist Party had originally formed in 1951 to protest the Korean War.81 Barry joined Vietnam veterans among the VFP marchers and inquired about a banner some of them were carrying which read “Vietnam Veterans Against the War”. When Barry learned the phrase was just a slogan and there was no formal group by that name, he decided to form one. After talking with the older VFP members and studying their tactics, he recruited five Vietnam veterans from a Memorial Day VFP rally, and on June 1, 1967 the six of them held the first VVAW meeting in his apartment.82
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