According to a recent Fox News report, U.S. leaders are considering prosecuting for war crimes any U.S. citizen who travels to Iraq to be a human shield in an effort to protect the Iraqi people. Yes, the United States now intends to make it a crime to protect innocent people from being killed. In other words, the United States' right to invade Iraq and kill its citizenry supersedes Iraqi civilians' right to life.
In fact, if the current administration had its way, the confidentially and quietly drafted Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, dubbed Patriot Act II, would already be the supreme law of the land. Under this law, U.S. citizens acting as human shields in Iraq could be stripped of their U.S. citizenship, denied their Constitutional rights, be held indefinitely, and tried secretly as "enemy combatants" based on the allegedly treasonous "intent" of their actions as "aiding and abetting the enemy." The underlying intent of their actions would be judged solely on the interpretation of U.S. leaders caught in an overly simplistic, dichotomous worldview, where U.S. leaders represent all that is righteous, morally superior and good, and any others who believe and behave differently, everything that is unrighteous, morally bankrupt and evil.
Doug
ROU Heil Bush
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