Immunity, there are several that recognizes it. Jasta goes much further than any recognized practice of International Law. Mr. Speaker, as the gentleman from texas just suggested, one fundamental indication of fairness of legislation is not how it would work for our benefit but what would we think of it if it was used against us . The United States allows our citizens to haul foreign nations into foreign courts, what will other nations enacting legislation allowing their citizens to do the same thing to us . Obviously we would not want to put our diplomats, military and private companies at that risk. Consider our nations actions in iraq. While there may be questions about saudi arabias indirect involvement on 9 11, theres no question about who the state sponsored actor was in 2003 when we bombed baghdad and killed and injured hundreds of thousands of people with little to no evidence that iraq was any immediate threat to the United States or our allies. Hat would we think if iraq enac
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