Name:   copperline - Subject:   GOP Passes Bill and Soldiers To Be Sued Overseas Date:   9/30/2016 10:10:35 AM

The significance of this vote is lost on a lot of people.   It's not only that foreign governments will allow suits & legal charges against individual soldiers... but that those governments can now justify seizing US corporate assets in their country as punishment for US drone strikes that killed innocent people, bombs that hit non-military sites, or other military actions that displaced people in their countries.   It's not likely that a 21 year old drone pilot in Utah will be extradicted to Pakistan for trial, it's that any US owned assets in that country are now in subject to seizure.  

It also means that countries like Saudi Arabia could remove their investments from the US  out of fear that these could be seized as damages under US law.

Remember, US citizens already HAD the right to sue foreign govenments who had been officially identified as state sponsors of terrorism.   This just opens the door to legal actions against  any country that is alledged to be associated with terrorist acts by one of it's citizens.... whether their government 'sponsored' the act or not.

As soon as this passed and veto was over-ridden, Congressmen started wondering if they had opened Pandora's Box.  

Too late, too bad, big mistake.      This will do nothing to punish the guilty or bring back the dead.