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To: Coz who wrote (4629)	11/24/2003 5:15:21 AM
From: Coz	Read Replies (2) of 20773

Did anyone happen to watch 60 Minutes on CBS Sunday evening. cbsnews.com One of the segments featured four of the pilots who were shot down over Iraq during the first Gulf War and then held as prisoner of war, tortured, humiliated, beaten, threatened under pain of death. The courts awarded them (all of the POWs) nearly a billion dollar part compensation, part punitive. The will of the court was to make the price per soldier so great that any foreign power in the future would have to take this into consideration when decided how they were going to treat Americans captured. We all know that the Bush White house confiscated the impounded Iraqi funds that this compensation was to come from, but what I learn from the story was that the POWs present several alternative offers to the justice department so as not to hurt the war and reconstruction efforts. Yet, no offer is even under consideration. No one in the administration will talk about this issue other than to stay the money is no long impounded and is no longer available to them. The funds are now part of the Iraqi reconstruction projects. What I find particularly pitiful is that although the Bush people would not even give the POWs a hearing by saying that ALL FUND WERE NECESSARY for the Iraqi reconstruction efforts, yet at the same time The Bush people had skimmed of 8 million dollars of the 87 billion going to Iraq and gave that to the Miami police to harass and break up the non-violent protesters at the Free Trade Area of the Americas Summit held in Miami. democracynow.org The whole thrust of this protest was to try and keep American Jobs in America. It had nothing what-so-ever to do with Iraq. Yet the Bush people felt it was okay to skim off the eight million to set up police lines and also have infiltrators mingle with the crowd and try to start fights among those trying to peaceably protest. This is a very strange use of the Iraqi funds in my opinion seeing as how not one cent of that money will be available to American victims of Iraqi aggression from Gulf War I. I thought that the four soldiers interviewed were admirably professional. The interviewer at one point literally set them up to vent angrily at the Bush people and not a single one took that bait. They all spoke with greatest respect for their Commander in Chief and concluded that they could not believe that George Bush personally knew that this was happening as he would surely stop this and make sure Justice was done. It appears that the ex-POWs hope to take the near one billion dollar award and use the bulk of it to set up a foundation dedicated to helping present and future victims of torture at the hands of an enemy in war. Unless they are allowed to collect on their judgement. This will remain only a dream on their part. --Cozzz

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