October 10, 2005

LIKE TRYING FDR AT NUREMBERG:

Saddam's trial to begin next week (Sharon Behn, October 10, 2005, THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

In fewer than 10 days, Saddam Hussein will stand in the especially built courtroom where he will face the families of those he killed.

A source close to the Iraqi Special Tribunal said yesterday that the much-feared dictator and seven of his underlings will be brought before a five-judge panel Oct. 19 to answer to charges of crimes against humanity.

For some who suffered under Saddam, a formal trial along international guidelines is too good for the man who is accused of ordering the killing, torturing and rape of thousands.

"Why lawyers [and a] trial?" asked Ahmed, a security guard who asked that his full name not be used. "Put Saddam in the streets of Baghdad, all of them in the street, and the people will just shoot him, finished." He made a gun with his hand and pretended to shoot at the ground.

Surely we should all pity this innocent victim of Bush and Blair's Nazi-like war of aggression.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 10, 2005 8:25 AM
Comments

Hiding for days in a rabbit hole - hasn't he suffered enough???

Posted by: obc at October 10, 2005 1:41 PM

Maybe Court TV can get Cindy Sheehan as an on-air commentator during the trial. Guarenteed to produce oodles of sound-bytes for everyone.

Posted by: John at October 10, 2005 3:50 PM

The one person in the world who can prove that that the Bush administration lied through it's teeth in the process of going to war in Iraq.
Important that he gets a fair trial; Obviously not to most of you.

Posted by: Fred at October 10, 2005 6:05 PM

Of course they lied. What's that have to do with killing a genocidal tyrant? Hitler didn't get a pass because FDR was a fibber.

Posted by: oj at October 10, 2005 6:18 PM

Fred: You have to admit Bush is good--he not only lied, but he got nearly every single world leader to do so as well. He's so good, he even got Bill Clinton and every member of his administration to lie throughout the 1990's, all in order to set up the invasion in 2003! The man is truly brilliant...

Posted by: b at October 10, 2005 6:46 PM

. . . as are you, b!

Posted by: obc at October 10, 2005 10:37 PM

Fred:

The evidence will be presented (pretty much to the world). More than anyone in Iraq ever got under Saddam.

Now, should Ronnie Earle receive a fair trial for prosecutorial misconduct?

Posted by: ratbert at October 11, 2005 10:31 AM
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