2007-10-05 08:36:20 · 10 answers · asked by TxSup 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yes, they should be tried for crimes in Iraq under Iraqi law. America should not protect these people. If you do the crime, tou do the time, whether you are in Iraq, Canada or Germany.
2007-10-05 08:40:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
A report compiled by Democratic staffers for Representative Waxman's Oversight Committee listed 200 incidents involving Blackwater personnel. The report charges that Blackwater employees open fire on insurgents, hitting civilians in the process, and don't stop to check on the wounded but rather keep their vehicles moving. Now I'm not much of a military man but isn't the whole point of an enemy ambush to disable or stop the vehicles so that the occupants can be trapped and killed? And Democrats are complaining that Blackwater refused to commit suicide by stopping their vehicles after a firefight to help with the wounded?
2007-10-05 15:40:56 · answer #2 · answered by CaptainObvious 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That would be self-defeating as the whole point is to create rule of law and autonomy in Iraq. I'm not passing judgment on Blackwater, but isn't the Iraqi government supposed to be making decisions and showing leadership? Yet when they decided to expel Blackwater the US government said no.
2007-10-05 15:43:13 · answer #3 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He will have to. Many of them were hired to do things that are illegal under US law, and Bush can not risk the exposure just to punish a few that did things on their own. Remember the interrogators at Abu Ghraib were contractors.
2007-10-05 15:49:16 · answer #4 · answered by meg 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The question is does the US have the right to extend it's jurisdiction into another country?
I don't know, see it both ways but I get tired of the US pushing it's "superior law and morality" on other countries with "Universal Jurisdiction". It does not seem right.
I guess another way of looking at it is if you live in Tennessee and go to Vegas and gamble, should you be arrested for it in Tennessee when you get back?
2007-10-05 15:40:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
No. Would you rather they come under Iraqi law?
They should not be above the law.
2007-10-05 15:38:48 · answer #6 · answered by slykitty62 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Since when did "should" ever weigh into anything he does?
Sorry to answer your question with a question.
2007-10-05 15:50:52 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why should US citizens and a US company be EXEMPT from US law?
Can I be exempt, too??
2007-10-05 15:44:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not. Therefore, I fully expect he will.
2007-10-05 15:38:52 · answer #9 · answered by toff 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
No, but he might anyway.
2007-10-05 15:38:16 · answer #10 · answered by Think 1st 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋