Friday, February 18, 2005
FROM CROOKS & LIARS
White House Turns Tables on Former American POWs
By David G. Savage, Times Staff Writer
Gulf War pilots tortured by Iraqis fight the Bush administration in trying to collect compensation. The Bush administration is fighting the former prisoners of war in court, trying 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. this post was collected (not written) by chuckago@yahoo.com
White House Turns Tables on Former American POWs
By David G. Savage, Times Staff Writer
The rationale: Today's Iraqis are good guys, and they need the money.
The case abounds with ironies. It pits the U.S. government squarely against its own war heroes and the Geneva Convention.
Many of the pilots were tortured in the same Iraqi prison, Abu Ghraib, where American soldiers abused Iraqis 15 months ago. Those Iraqi victims, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has said, deserve compensation from the United States.
