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Originally Posted by tecoyah
The last hope for the POWs rests with the Supreme Court. Their lawyers petitioned the high court last month to hear the case. Significantly, it has been renamed Acree vs. Iraq and the United States.
The POWs say the justices should decide the "important and recurring question [of] whether U.S. citizens who are victims of state-sponsored terrorism [may] seek redress against terrorist states in federal court."
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This seems like a tough one to me since the regime that did the terrorism is no longer in existence. I wonder what we did in previous wars, did we go after the new German and Japanese governments for torture etc..after WWII?
My uncle was a Japanese POW for about 9 months and was tortured repeatedly but I don't recall him getting any compensation other than the usual GI benefits. He was never the same after what he went through.
The U.S. government should probably compensate our soldiers for what they went through. Also if we can find some of Saddam's money we should use it to help. I don't know, maybe there's an argument to be made that the newly elected Iraqi government should pay our soldiers first before building their infrastructure back up. I imagine we would also have a case against the new Afghan government as well.