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Originally Posted by glenmore
Nice leap to a wrong conclusion.
The point is a foreign court expressing jurisdiction over US citizens.
The US military and the US government is responsible for punishing war crimes commited by its soldiers.
Background here where Belgium tried the same thing and backed down when Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld threatened to remove NATO headquarters from Brussels.
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/War_Crimes_Law_(Belgium)
glenmore
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I agree -- this is just silly. They might have a leg to stand on had an incident actually occurred on Spanish soil.