[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by 4X4

If they commit crimes in Iraq, shouldn't they go to jail in Iraq or at least be subject to their penal system? I think that'd help heal some of the anti-americanism over there. Let this bastid have his nuts chopped off or whatever they do over there. Let the Iraqis do whatever it is that they'd do to one of their own.

If that were the case, the US would be a signatory of the international criminal court.

(11) It is a fundamental principle of international law
that a treaty is binding upon its parties only and that it does
not create obligations for nonparties without their consent to
be bound. The United States is not a party to the Rome Statute
and will not be bound by any of its terms. The United States
will not recognize the jurisdiction of the International
Criminal Court over United States nationals.

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(d) Prohibition on Extradition to the International Criminal
Court.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no agency or entity
of the United States Government or of any State or local government may
extradite any person from the United States to the International
Criminal Court, nor support the transfer of any United States citizen
or permanent resident alien to the International Criminal Court.

(e) Prohibition on Provision of Support to the International
Criminal Court.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no agency
or entity of the United States Government or of any State or local
government, including any court, may provide support to the
International Criminal Court.

(f) Prohibition on Use of Appropriated Funds To Assist the
International Criminal Court.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, no funds appropriated under any provision of law may be used for
the purpose of assisting the investigation, arrest, detention,
extradition, or prosecution of any United States citizen or permanent
resident alien by the International Criminal Court.

(g) Restriction on Assistance Pursuant to Mutual Legal Assistance
Treaties.--The United States shall exercise its rights to limit the use
of assistance provided under all treaties and executive agreements for
mutual legal assistance in criminal matters, multilateral conventions
with legal assistance provisions, and extradition treaties, to which
the United States is a party, and in connection with the execution or
issuance of any letter rogatory, to prevent the transfer to, or other
use by, the International Criminal Court of any assistance provided by
the United States under such treaties and letters rogatory.
(h) Prohibition on Investigative Activities of Agents.--No agent of
the International Criminal Court may conduct, in the United States or
any territory subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, any
investigative activity relating to a preliminary inquiry, investigation, prosecution, or other proceeding at the International
Criminal Court.

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