US Lacks Votes for Immunity from War Crimes Court

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) and key U.N. Security Council members intensified their opposition to a U.S. draft resolution that would renew the exemption of American soldiers from international prosecution.

Consequently, the Bush administration on Friday still lacked the required nine votes to renew the measure that would give U.S. troops immunity from the new International Criminal Court. The previous resolution expires on June 30.

"We're going to be coming back to the council by Tuesday with a final plan -- with our position in terms of next steps," U.S. representative Stuart Holliday.

The resolution was first approved in 2002 after the United States vetoed a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Bosnia, and threatened to oppose others, one by one.


The immunity would

as King George hands Iraq the keys to their shiny new car.

I hope he's shitting his pants waiting to get his "permission slip" signed by the council.

Fuckwad!

to turn over the keys to the fiefdom? He figured he could keep the lid on the tortures stories at least that long..but those damned pictures appeared first.