Sanctuary!!!!!

As decreed by former Proconsul Bremer, all American military personnel in Iraq, public or private, have immunity from Iraqi law. The "Battle for Hearts and Minds" was lost before it started, thanks to the utterly incompetent Bush Administration. Dumbass.

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U.S. Immunity in Iraq Will Go Beyond June 30

By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 24, 2004; Page A01

The Bush administration has decided to take the unusual step of bestowing on its own troops and personnel immunity from prosecution by Iraqi courts for killing Iraqis or destroying local property after the occupation ends and political power is transferred to an interim Iraqi government, U.S. officials said.

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Security Firm Faces Criminal Charges in Iraq - New York Times

BAGHDAD, Sept. 22 — The Iraqi government expects to refer criminal charges to the Iraqi courts within days in the killing of at least eight Iraqis by a private American security company, the state minister for national security affairs said Saturday, and he said that the government had received little information so far from the American side of the joint investigation.

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Although Mr. Waili did not spell out exactly what the investigative committee would recommend to the Iraqi criminal court, a preliminary report of findings by the Interior Ministry, National Security Ministry and Defense Ministry stated that “the murder of citizens in cold blood in the Nisour area by Blackwater is considered a terrorist action against civilians just like any other terrorist operations.”

We have met the enemy and they is us.

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