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==SOFA==

==SOFA==

While still being the invited guests of the Iraqi government we are not an occupation force. To the lunatic fringe the military forces in the United States are an occupation force. To our enemies we will always be an occupation force. To any American serving in the Armed Forces of the United States of America who has been deployed by their government to a foreign country there is a little thing called a "SOFA" agreement. This Status Of Forces Agreement (SOFA) is an agreement that the host and sponsor countries agree upon as to the legal status of the sponsor while in the host country. This usually affords the sponsor the legal authority to prosecute legalities onto its own forces without the need for legal action by the host. There are sometimes exeptions made to especially heinous crimes such as rape that allow the sponsor to give over the legal responsibility to the host. This will mostly only happen when there is a legal system in place that can reasonably dispense  with a certain standard of justice that is equitable to the sponsor. This system has already been in place for decades. As a person who has been under it while deployed to foreign lands by order of the Commander in Chief, I am grateful for its provisions. I find it not an amusing fact that there are those Americans who would wish me and my fellow service members fall victim to an archaic and backward system of kangaroo courts that would leave Americans stranded in barbaric conditions to be tortured by the captors unto death. I can only hope that such people will never be in a position of authority over anyone.--[[User:Roopilots6|Roopilots6]] 10:06, 8 September 2008 (EDT)

While still being the invited guests of the Iraqi government we are not an occupation force. To the lunatic fringe the military forces in the United States are an occupation force. To our enemies we will always be an occupation force. To any American serving in the Armed Forces of the United States of America who has been deployed by their government to a foreign country there is a little thing called a "SOFA" agreement. This Status Of Forces Agreement (SOFA) is an agreement that the host and sponsor countries agree upon as to the legal status of the sponsor while in the host country. This usually affords the sponsor the legal authority to prosecute legalities onto its own forces without the need for legal action by the host. There are sometimes exeptions made to especially heinous crimes such as rape that allow the sponsor to give over the legal responsibility to the host. This will mostly only happen when there is a legal system in place that can reasonably dispense  with a certain standard of justice that is equitable to the sponsor. This system has already been in place for decades. As a person who has been under it while deployed to foreign lands by order of the Commander in Chief, I am grateful for its provisions. I find it not an amusing fact that there are those Americans who would wish me and my fellow service members fall victim to an archaic and backward system of kangaroo courts that would leave Americans stranded in barbaric conditions to be tortured by their captors unto death. I can only hope that such people will never be in a position of authority over anyone.--[[User:Roopilots6|Roopilots6]] 10:06, 8 September 2008 (EDT)