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Ya better think this through before condemning the administration's position.
Consider this: If foreigners can sue the US for harm done to them, we'd be buried under an avalanche of lawsuits just from Iraq and Afghanistan alone, probably enough to bankrupt us for good. And, what about all those millions of Vietnamese who would have Agent Orange claims?
Ya better think this through before condemning the administration's position.
Consider this: If foreigners can sue the US for harm done to them, we'd be buried under an avalanche of lawsuits just from Iraq and Afghanistan alone, probably enough to bankrupt us for good. And, what about all those millions of Vietnamese who would have Agent Orange claims?
Ya better think this through before condemning the administration's position.
Consider this: If foreigners can sue the US for harm done to them, we'd be buried under an avalanche of lawsuits just from Iraq and Afghanistan alone, probably enough to bankrupt us for good. And, what about all those millions of Vietnamese who would have Agent Orange claims?
Do you want that?
The US experimented with humans. I'd condemn the USG for that going all the way back..each and every administration that thought it was OK to experiment on humans.
Lord knows, they're probably still doing it today, maybe even to us, "for the greater good of mankind" of course.
That's not the key point. The point is the importance of precedent under our form of law. Once the precedent is established that foreigners can sue our government for damages, the flood gates will open.
Yes, that we did to them is more than deplorable and compensation should be offered, but our future demands that we not let them sue us for damages.
As a result, President George W. Bush signed an executive order restoring the Libyan government's immunity from terror-related lawsuits and dismissing all of the pending compensation cases in the US, the White House said. [10]
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