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Originally posted by bilmore
Now, you want the co-victims to pay for our guys' verdicts? I can't reconcile a discussion of rights with that approach. If Joe runs me down with his car, yeah, I should have a "right" to compensation, but not from Sally, who Joe ran over last week. The "right" doesn't trump the "just".
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How about recovering from Bob, the owner of the car that Joe drove? Even though Bob's a nice guy, and he doesn't have the car anymore (your kids and the skink trashed it after they chased Joe into one of the 10,000 lakes)?
The fact that any payment made by the Iraqi government means that there will be less money for the Iraqi people doesn't change, regardless (hi, TM!) of whether SH is still in charge or not. Do you think that he would have cut a check from his personal account to pay any judgment? When the US as a tort defendant pays damages, does the president pay from his personal account at Riggs Bank?
