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That's weird. I served 20 years in the military in 4 different countries and the military personnel and contractors serving in those countries did not have immunity from prosecution by the local government. If you broke a local government law, you stood trial in their court. Most of the SOFA revolved on who had jurisdiction on the American military bases which housed the troops and equipment, the leased hotels and buildings etc. SOFA can also include rules of engagement and a whole bunch of other things. No one ever had immunity except those Embassy Personnel with diplomatic passports. Usually military personnel serving in a foreign country are subject to the laws of that country just like an American tourist would be.
Are you sure President Obama wanted immunity for all the military and contractors? If so you are putting all of the military and contractors in the same category as the Ambassador and the Embassy staff. I never heard of this ever being requested. But there is always a first time for everything. Even when I was an Assistant Attache, I did not have immunity although I carried an embassy ID.
Yeah, we shoulda let Saddam keep Kuwait and possibly invade Saudi Arabia!
You'be been asking questions all the way along, only reading the headlines, and now you think you know what was going on in Iraq before Obama pulled the troops out?
Right.
That, too.
The same reason those Shia politicians didn't support renewing the SOFA: populism.
To blame for what? SOFA breaking down?
Troops in Vietnam weren't charged with a crime for killing RVN citizens who were either collateral damage or fighting with the enemy and prosecuted under RVN law, were they?
Yeah, we shoulda let Saddam keep Kuwait and possibly invade Saudi Arabia!
Leftists should be forced to watch this every day and then made to answer questions.
So Obama lied about US foreign policy? Should we take your word over 3 bipartisan senators?
For what? For the current genocidal massacre. He's blaming intelligence now-not sofa, and not getting bogged down.
By mere coincidence, no doubt-it's to his apparent political benefit to blame others.
So Obama lied about US foreign policy? Should we take your word over 3 bipartisan senators?
For what? For the current genocidal massacre. He's blaming intelligence now-not sofa, and not getting bogged down.
By mere coincidence, no doubt-it's to his apparent political benefit to blame others.
Iraq faces a greater risk of renewed violence if U.S. forces are told to leave Iraq, top U.S. lawmakers warned Sunday as the White House insisted negotiations to keep some U.S. troops in Iraq haven't been abandoned even though Iraqi officials remain adamant they not get immunity if they remain.
As the clock ticks down to a Dec. 31 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both sides say they want U.S. forces to stay in Iraq in training and peacekeeping capacities.
But a senior government official in Iraq told Fox News on Sunday that all Iraqi political blocks agree U.S. troops should not have immunity from prosecutions for killing Iraqi civilians or others if they stay beyond 2011. That's a deal breaker for the Pentagon.
It seems you are only reading part of the link again.Heree since you all refuse to accept actual history herre is the story from a source I think you'll trust:
Fox News: whole story here
It seems you are only reading part of the link again.
Yeah, and although genocide and murdering any suspected political opponents is frowned upon in some circles, those rape rooms could work. If those who want peace will say or do nothing about clitorectomies, honor killings, using children as explosive devices, stoning women to death, decapitating Christians and so on, why should a few rape rooms bother them?
More lying false-equivalence.
Back to the B.I.L. Zone for you .
And Bush got us in the ****ed up mess in the first place.
That's what happens when you vote for Republicans.
Were you ever involved in such fighting you described here ?
What did I lie about?
What difference does it make? I asked Perotista a question about Voetnam, because HE WAS THERE.
What unit were you in? The 357th Airborne Horse Artillery Battalion?
Good thing Bush-43 didn't have Democrats wanting a dozen different ways to conduct foreign policy huh.?Actually this is a new one all on Obama
And Republicans have a BUT after every comment they are now making, slamming Obama for the world to see.
Good thing Bush-43 didn't have Democrats wanting a dozen different ways to conduct foreign policy huh.?
The GOP is full of Chiefs and not many Indians .
Actually this is a new one all on Obama
Saddam could have controlled all that Saudi oil, too. What could go wrong?
Your amusement betrays your lack of insight. IRAN IS THERE BECAUSE WE AREN'T. They are filling a power vacuum left by Democrat party incompetence. This reality does not mean anyone else likes Iran, it means the world is so twisted under Obama. And as far as training-Islamist groups were around before Bush, and they are greatly increasing now. This is democrat party politics in action.
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