Apparently the laws of geology and the well-being of the oil producing nations' people are not enough of a barrier to the water cooler tyrants in Washington.
That piece of legislation has not been passed into law, it's bumming around in the Senate picking up Republican sponsors left right and sideways for about four years now because A. it looks good to the people back home to say "Look at me, I want to get back at those turban wearing bastards and help make it affordable to drive SUVs again!" and B. President Bush has made it clear that he'll veto the damn thing if it ever passes (which it has about a snowballs chance in hell to do because everyone on capital hill knows it's idiotic.)
As for the OT...
Eh.
Ancient. The fact that Iran was behind that is oooooooold. And courts ruling on matters like this are just as old. I.E. the UTA Flight 103 trial, the Khobar towers trial, and a few others which I can't remember right now.
Not helping in the PR front for Iran though... and that is a shame.
'After 9/11, it was "You're with us or your with the terrorists." Now its "You're with Straha or you support racism."' ' - The Romulan Republic
'You're a bully putting on an air of civility while saying that everything western and/or capitalistic must be bad, and a lot of other posters (loomer, Stas Bush, Gandalf) are also going along with it for their own personal reasons (Stas in particular is looking through rose colored glasses)' - Darth Yan
MKSheppard wrote:
IIRC, there are still some Iranian assets in the US which can be seized to pay for this.
To the tune of at least several billion dollars. In 1979 the US froze something like 10 billion in Iranian assets, and unfroze only around 75% in 1981 when the hostages where released. The US and Iran still dispute the true value of everything.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
