The Bush administration is currently fighting former US POWs from the 1991 Gulf War in court. Why? To prevent them from collecting nearly $1 billion from Iraq that a federal judge awarded them as compensation for their torture at the hands of Saddam Hussein's regime. The rationale is that today's Iraqis are good guys, and they need the money.

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This is wrong. Very wrong. These men and women were tortured by Iraqis and are just now receiving compensation. Yet Bush doesn't want them to get it because apparently they didn't mean it. What say you?

I guess I don't understand how a federal court can award money to people and insist that a foriegn government pays for it. It seems to me that the court went way out of their jurisdiction. Shame on the court for getting the hopes of those POWs.

Even if the court did not overstep their jurisidiction the government under Saddam would have to pay the compensation. Since Saddams government no longer exsists it is considered bankrupt and is no longer accountable for its past debts.

These POWs were not tortured by the current government, therefore, holding the current government responsible for the torture makes little sense.

POW compesnation in general is a grey area. Traditionally this sort of stuff does not happen, and I don't blame the Bush administration for attempting to block it.