Why McCain and I Should be Allowed to be President | 17 comments (17 topical, 0 hidden)
To the best of my knowledge, Cenk (none / 0)
Military bases abroad ARE, indeed, legally American soil.  The host country's laws cannot even be applied on such a base except as specifically laid out in a Status of Forces Agreement.  Two of my children were so born, in Germany, and as I understand it their legal status is US born.

I really doubt such a thing would have escaped notice ere now were the law otherwise.  This is a non-issue, I'm afraid.

SAM: What's new, Normie?
NORM: Terrorists, Sam. They've taken over my stomach and they're demanding beer.

by Spinny on 02/28/2008 12:58:41 PM EST

Don't think US bases abroad are American soil (none / 0)
did a quick search and found something that is related:

"As a general matter, military personnel deployed on military bases abroad are not part of the diplomatic mission of the United States and thus the buildings and ancillary land they occupy are not part of the “premises of a United States mission."
http://www.treas.gov/office s/domestic-finance/financia l-institution/terrorism-ins urance/pdf/redacteddec04.pd f

also I doubt any country would see foreign military bases, whether they be US, French, British, ... on their land as land belonging to the US, French, British

but let's be honest if this was the case for Obama, Republicans would be knocking at the court's gates, but since McCain is a Republican nothing will happen

by callisto on 02/28/2008 01:57:30 PM EST

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The Bushies have been claiming this all along... (none / 0)
Guantanimo in Cuba is not American soil, so sayeth the Bush administration.  That's why we can treat the prisoners anyway we'd like, and ignore the Geneva Conventions.

by BlueInTexas on 02/28/2008 05:18:16 PM EST

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some more links (none / 0)
http://answers.yahoo.com/qu estion/index?qid=2008021315 2522AAJwHwi
http://www.fluther.com/disc /5934/are-us-military-bases -considered-us-soil/

by callisto on 02/28/2008 02:04:00 PM EST

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For the record, my off-the-cuff was wrong (none / 0)
But as per my posts below I still don't think this will stick.

SAM: What's new, Normie?
NORM: Terrorists, Sam. They've taken over my stomach and they're demanding beer.

by Spinny on 02/28/2008 02:16:31 PM EST

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Why McCain and I Should be Allowed to be President | 17 comments (17 topical, 0 hidden)