The Bulletpoint Blog

Support the troops part 2

The Abu Ghraib facility has a long history of torture. In 1991, a group of US pilots were tortured there by officials of Saddam Hussein.

Those US airmen have sued and won a judgement against the government of Iraq for compensation. They have now hit a big legal obstacle; George Bush. Bush's justice department intervened on behalf of the Iraqi government to overturn the judgement.

The 17 airmen's original judgement was for $959 million. Although the Bush administration has many flaws, for the most part they can count. If US courts believe that the appropriate punishment for torture should be $56 million per victim, the hundreds of "detainees" they have tortured provide a strong financial incentive to object to the judgement.

From Reuters.

posted by Lumberjack @ 3:20 PM