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To: DoughtyOne
"The ICC is the law over every nation of the world."

That's incorrect. The ICC is a mere treaty. There is nothing about it that raises it above the status of a "treaty". It is therefore binding only to nations that signed and ratified said treaty, and even then limited in scope and reach to their own sovereign territories.

55 posted on 08/05/2003 12:17:47 PM PDT by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
Then I suggest you explain that to President Bush. He's busy getting our allies to promise not to take us to the ICC. If you are correct, since we're not signators, then I'm sure he'd be glad to know it.

Technically, you may be correct. In realty I think all you'll get out of that is a warm fuzzy feeling shouting from the rooftops that it isn't fair when we do get taken to task by the ICC.
59 posted on 08/05/2003 12:30:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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