Have you registered with the Embassy?

Well, I could drag it through the British courts if I wanted to. 

I'd actually like to see the day when a case like this comes to court, b/c I can't see where it's legal to force citizenship upon a foreign-born national just b/c of their parents' nationality.

a US citizen who has never set foot in the US must file taxes, right?  if so, there must be some court case somewhere challenging this?  perhaps?

Hey......I neither advocate nor agree with the law but there are some (present company excluded ) who have a somewhat "romanticized" notion of what dual citizenship actually is and what it means..... unfortunately taxes and military obligation are'nt excluded when one takes it on.

a US citizen who has never set foot in the US must file taxes, right?  if so, there must be some court case somewhere challenging this?  perhaps?

One would have thought.  Romance has nothing to do with it when it someone is born in a foreign country to an American parent and apparently has no say in the matter of whether or not he/she is an American citizen - regardless of whether or not they ever set foot in the US. 

Well for that matter, a child can't help being born anywhere, even including in the U.S.  And until they're "of age," there's really not much they can do about moving out of the country either anyway.

Well for that matter, a child can't help being born anywhere, even including in the U.S.  And until they're "of age," there's really not much they can do about moving out of the country either anyway.

No, but to have citizenship of a foreign country in which you were not born nor lived thrust upon you, and to have that mean you're liable for paying taxes to that foreign nation and possibly be compelled to fight in one of their wars?  Well, that's a lot different from having been born and brought up in a place.

The Selective Sevices website says that a dual national may be exempt from induction into the armed services if other country of nationality has an agreement with the US which specifically provides for an exemption.

http://www.sss.gov/FSaliens.htm

Now if someone could find out if the UK and the US have such an agreement...

Well, I could drag it through the British courts if I wanted to.  Or like expat mentions, I could move to France and Dubya couldn't touch me.   

I don't blame you -- I wouldn't want him touching me either.