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Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 02:46 PM
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Can the contractor corpss be sued for the tortures?
can they be held liable for the actions of their employees?

cause they sure have some bux to go after.
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ihaveaquestion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 02:51 PM
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1. I don't see why they couldn't go to the international courts.
The ruling wouldn't be enforceable in the U.S. but would have an effect internationally.
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methinks2 Donating Member (894 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 02:54 PM
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2. 1999 rep Bill McCollum introduced
legislation that would hold all civilian contractors and their families to the military codes of justice. I'm not sure if that includes the corps, I doubt if it does.
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 02:54 PM
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3. National Security isn't about letting murderers, rapists and torturers
that just so happen to be employees of private companies awarded contracts by the administration of George W. Bush aka The War President (and paid for with our taxes) go unprosecuted.

:nuke:
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banana republican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 03:04 PM
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4. Companies are liable for the torts of employees
Yes they can be sued
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 03:10 PM
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5. Acgually there are two places
ironically the US, we have a law in the books pased back at the
dawn of the Republic...

The other place is.... the hague, we have not signed the International convention, but we could be held liable... for war crimes, we did signed the 1948 Geneva Convention and treatment of POWs.

You want the details I can take you down the Convention by chapter and verse
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