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re: your post #120

Yeah, after I posted I noticed, too, that the mice had regrouped after post #100. Good catch!

The funny thing is that at this point they are basically talking only to each other, LOL!

Regards,
LH

Assuming, best case, this is the outward appearance of sumkina negotiating tactic, can someone explain:

1) What is the target position the US is really expecting to achieve?
2) How does this tactic advance that goal?
3) Why does this "cave" not encourage the UN to hold out for more?
4) Who is advising Bush on this stuff?

Oh yes, some refutation on your part. Do you even understand the ICC?

It makes no difference whether or not the ICC is signed or ratified by the US. Now that the ICC exists, anyone in the world, including Americans, can be tried before it. And once they are, they can be grabbed as soon as they are in a country that has signed the ICC.

Since some of the crimes the ICC has jurisdiction over are such things as 'Agression', basically anyone the court doesn't like can be tried (since agression is however the court defines it. And since the course is run by our enemies - anti-american socialists in Europe and anti-american islamists in the middle east, it's now open season on our troops anywhere.

And it's not like our courst could opt to try them instead. That is technically a first option, but only if it's satisfied to the ICC's whim. If not, then the ICC will do it.