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To: epicure who wrote (211920)	1/8/2007 2:15:52 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

At any rate, I am sure we agree that it's not desirable that the Iraqi justice system be turned into American puppets, our personal kangaroo courts. Even in war time, a local court, properly constituted, retains jurisdiction to perform acts which are consistent with the law of the land. According to the Geneva Conventions, we're supposed to turn enemy combatants back to their own countries for justice, unless they violated our own laws, which Saddam did not. Pressuring their government is exactly the wrong thing to do. Could we do it? Yes. Should we do it? No harm in trying, but there's simply a limit to what we could do without turning them into the puppets we don't want them to be.