The Senate continues its consideration of the Department of Defense
Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2007. As part of the debate, I offered
an amendment, cosponsored by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), that would
protect American soldiers from being subject to the jurisdiction of
Iraqi criminal courts or punishment under Iraqi law.
American soldiers are currently held accountable under the Uniform Code
of Military Justice and the Geneva Conventions. With Iraq in chaos,
this is no time to even consider forcing our soldiers to be subject to
the Iraqi criminal justice system.
Many in the Iraqi government have called for U.S. soldiers to be tried
in Iraqi courts. During the Senate debate, I pointed out comments made
by the Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, who
called U.S. troops butchers and said, 「I personally think whoever kills an
American soldier in defense of his country would have a statue built
for him in that country.」 This comment alone was reason enough for my
amendment, and I am very pleased that the Senate did that. My amendment
passed 97 to 0.
Sincerely,
Barbara Boxer
United States Senator作者: 水影兒 時間: 2006-8-11 13:28
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