Exec Order Makes Iraq Lawless Zone? - Democratic Underground

mondo joe

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Fri May-07-04 10:15 AM
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Exec Order Makes Iraq Lawless Zone?

I've heard Randi Rhodes refer to a Bush executive order that protects any contractor doing business there immune to lawsuits for work done there -

Does anyone know which executive order that would be???

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Irishladdie

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Fri May-07-04 10:18 AM
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1. 13303

Edited on Fri May-07-04 10:19 AM by Irishladdie

There you go!

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BlueEyedSon

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Fri May-07-04 10:20 AM
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2. 13303

Ruth Rosen of the San Francisco Chronicle summarizes Executive Order 13303 as follows:

"he president's order appears to place U.S. corporations above the law for any activities related to Iraq oil, either in that country or in the United States. It also declared a national emergency as the justification for sweeping aside all federal statues, including the Alien Tort Claims Act, and appears to provide immunity against contractual disputes, discrimination suits, violations of labor practices, international treaties, environmental disasters and human rights violations. Even more, it doesn't limit immunity to the production of oil, but also protects individuals, companies and corporations involved in selling and marketing the oil as well."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/08/08/ED163218.DTL
http://www.earthrights.org/news/eo13303.shtml
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0807-03.htm
http://www.whistleblower.org/uploads/press%20release%208.14.03.pdf

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mondo joe

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Fri May-07-04 10:31 AM
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3. THANK YOU!!!

Thanks. :-)

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thecrow

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Fri May-07-04 10:49 AM
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4. DoD Rumsfeld Release May 6, 2004

SECRETARY RUMSFELD STATEMENT ON THE ICC TREATY
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2002/b05062002_bt233-02.html

This is one from yesterday about the US MILITARY not being subject to the International Crimes Commission.
I don't know if it protects the contractors, but who knows how he mentally classifies anyone who is involved in "the war on terra"

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