When the Bush Administration is wrong... they're wrong.

Former American POW's from Desert Storm/Desert Shield have sued Iraq, successfully, over their treatment while in captivity.

While I have some heartburn with the concept of "suing" former captors that were members of a foreign government, the fact is that the court has ruled in this matter, and it's not up to the Administration to ignore a court's order... particularly given the fact that there wouldn't BE an Administration if not for the courts of 2000.

Much like the concept of the Second Amendment, if you don't like it.... change it. If the Administration doesn't like the outcome of the POW case, they should (if they can) get standing and appeal it. Otherwise.... pay up.

We are, after all, a "Nation of laws.... not suggestions."

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Administration stands in way of POWs' Iraq compensation

By David G. Savage

Los Angeles Times

U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Clifford Acree, a POW tortured in the Gulf War, shown on Iraqi TV.

WASHINGTON — The latest chapter in the legal history of torture is being written by U.S. pilots who were beaten and abused by Iraqis during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. And it has taken a strange twist.

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.