Political Quotes

“I support Senator Helms and what he is trying to do to protect the men and women in our military whom we put in harm's way to fight for peace and security from terrorism in faraway places. Before the war on terrorism is concluded, we are likely to find them fighting in farflung reaches of the globe against the scourge of terrorism. What we are concerned about is the possibility that they would fall into the hands of an enemy that would put them on trial under trumped-up charges, with very little in the way of rights before an International Criminal Court or under its jurisdiction. Is this an unreasonable fear? I note some of the countries that have signed up to the ICC, some real bastions of civil rights and civil liberties: Algeria, Cambodia, Haiti, Iran, Nigeria, Sudan, Syria, Yemen. Those would be great places to be tried in if you were in the American military and you had been fighting some tin-horn dictator who got ahold of you and decided to put you on trial.”