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(28,979 posts)
Fri Sep 27, 2013, 10:48 AM Sep 2013

So an Iraqi woman is suing the Bush administration

Code Pink has a petition to support this Iraqi mother:

"Prior to the arrival of U.S. forces, Saleh said, Iraq was safe. People slept with their doors open at night. There were no militias, no checkpoints, no threats. All of that came to a halt following the U.S.-led invasion. Airstrikes damaged or destroyed vital infrastructure including highways, bridges, and wastewater treatment facilities. Diseases like typhus became commonplace. The swift collapse of a functioning government created an environment ripe for internecine warfare. Saleh's twin brothers were both shot by militia members, and she no longer felt safe in her own home.

So in 2005, Saleh fled Iraq. She was not alone. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, over 2 million people left the country, and over 2.7 million were internally displaced, including up to 40 percent of the Iraqi middle class.

To seek legal redress, chief counsel Comar Law is invoking the Alien Tort Statute, a law passed in 1789 that permits a non-U.S. national the ability to sue in federal court for injuries "committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States." The case was filed on March 13, 2013, with the U.S. District Court in Northern Calif.

On August 20th Law revealed in a press release that: "The DOJ claims that in planning and waging the Iraq War, ex-President Bush and key members of his Administration were acting within the legitimate scope of their employment and are thus immune from suit,"

the petition:
https://www.causes.com/actions/1758826-help-an-iraqi-single-mom-get-justice

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So an Iraqi woman is suing the Bush administration (Original Post) Generic Other Sep 2013 OP
They have nothing to worry about, Obama's got their backs. n/t whatchamacallit Sep 2013 #1
I'm still waiting for Kissinger to be charged for his war crimes. dixiegrrrrl Sep 2013 #2
I wonder if the refugees have returned home Generic Other Sep 2013 #3

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
2. I'm still waiting for Kissinger to be charged for his war crimes.
Fri Sep 27, 2013, 11:40 AM
Sep 2013

Sadly,Nixon is dead so cannot be charged.

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