Author Topic: bush fights POWs (Read 332 times)

bigsky · « **on:** February 25, 2005, 09:03:03 PM »

The Bush administration is fighting the former prisoners of war in court, trying to prevent them from collecting nearly $1 billion from Iraq (news - web sites) that a federal judge awarded them as compensation for their torture at the hands of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/whitehouseturnstablesonformeramericanpows

Raider179 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 25, 2005, 09:20:40 PM »

"The rationale: Today's Iraqis are good guys, and they need the money"

Wonder if the real reason they dont want em to collect is they are afraid the Iraqi's we tortured might sue us. Kinda would set a precedent for it.

rpm · « **Reply #2 on:** February 25, 2005, 09:23:15 PM »

Bush is for Tort Reform. I mean it was only torture by terrorists. Suck it up and shut up.

RedTop · « **Reply #3 on:** February 25, 2005, 09:26:10 PM »

Interesting article.

Tumor · « **Reply #4 on:** February 25, 2005, 11:10:54 PM »

How much did the POW's from Vietnam get?

Nefarious · « **Reply #5 on:** February 26, 2005, 12:05:22 AM »

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Originally posted by Tumor
How much did the POW's from Vietnam get?

I havnt seen one Lawsuit, but WW2 POWs are suing Japanese Companies for having to work in Slave Labor Camps, and the Batann Death March.

I do have to admit though, they are suing different entities on different premises as well.

Heres a snippet from dav.org, talking about the Reparations from Japanese Companies.

"The DAV strongly believes that our nation has a sacred obligation a duty to ensure that the defenders of our freedom are adequately cared for, compensated, rehabilitated, and returned to gainful civilian employment whenever possible"

bigsky · « **Reply #6 on:** February 26, 2005, 12:08:06 AM »

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Originally posted by Tumor
How much did the POW's from Vietnam get?

last i heard we didnt win in viet nam.

Lizking · « **Reply #7 on:** February 26, 2005, 12:10:50 AM »

How much did NV POW's get from us then?

Gunslinger · « **Reply #8 on:** February 26, 2005, 02:51:56 AM »

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Originally posted by bigsky
last i heard we didnt win in viet nam.

does it really matter who won or lost? Most college professors nowadays will argue that we won WWII by shamfull means and that the victoms of our victory rate reparations from our atrocities.

Tumor · « **Reply #9 on:** February 26, 2005, 03:57:30 AM »

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Originally posted by Nefarious

"The DAV strongly believes that our nation has a sacred obligation a duty to ensure that the defenders of our freedom are adequately cared for, compensated, rehabilitated, and returned to gainful civilian employment whenever possible"

And I strongly agree WE should. Awarding a billion just strikes me as a little much (sorry, JMHO)... and expecting the "current" Iraqi people to pay that sum falls somewhere between arrogance and stupidity. WE should be paying them because we sent them there in the first place. It's not like our Govt/DoD (whatever) didn't expect captured pilots to be tortured... AND, it's not like WE aren't the one's who'll be paying the bill, in reality, anyway.

SunTracker · « **Reply #10 on:** February 26, 2005, 05:01:09 AM »

We need to dustoff the Enola Gay and show them who is boss!

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #11 on:** February 26, 2005, 05:27:01 AM »

Should families of KIA's be able to sue former enemies for wrongful death?

It's time to declare all lawyers enemy combatants and the Bar assn a terrorist organization.

lazs2 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 26, 2005, 10:04:05 AM »

we did win in vietnam... the South vietnames lost later.

lazs

bigsky · « **Reply #13 on:** February 26, 2005, 11:43:19 AM »

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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Should families of KIA's be able to sue former enemies for wrongful death?

It's time to declare all lawyers enemy combatants and the Bar assn a terrorist organization.

if i remember correctly, didnt the clinton government encourage victoms of terrorists to sue iran. and after they won and were about to get money from irans frozen assets in the U.S. the government stopped them from getting the money.