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On the other hand
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 Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 8:53 am Post subject: Saddam must die, declares Iraqi president |
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Now, I know Iraq is just a new democracy and everything. I've heard some of the neo-cons saying that if they can get the coutnry to be as democratic as America was in 1900, that will be enough of an accomplishment. So maybe I shouldn't be holding current regime to TOO high a standard. However:
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President Jalal Talabani told Iraqi television that he had been informed by an investigating judge that ��he was able to extract confessions from Saddam��s mouth�� about crimes ��such as executions�� which the ousted leader had personally ordered.
Asked about specific examples, Talabani, a Kurd, replied ��Anfal,�� the codename for the 1987-88 campaign which his Patriotic Union of Kurdistan maintains led to the deaths of about 182,000 Kurds and the destruction of ��dozens of Kurdish villages.��
Those villages included Halabja, where thousands of Kurdish villagers were gassed in 1988.
��Saddam Hussein is a war criminal and he deserves to be executed 20 times a day for his crimes against humanity,�� said Talabani.
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Okay, are they even bothering with the pretense of this being a fair trial? Because here we've got the president of the country apparently having a nice little chit-chat with the judge, who tells him that Saddam has already confessed to some of the major crimes he's charged with. Then the president turns around and announces to the world that Sadaam is guilty, and should be executed. And the lawyers haven't even made their opening arguments yet!
So, is this just a one-time let-slide? "Heck, Saddam is obviously as guilty as sin, and we've got years of pent-up rage going on here, so yeah we're basically just gonna have a lynching-dressed-up-as-a-trial and then get on with the business of running an impartial court system". Or is this an indication of how we can expect the legal system of democratic Iraq to conduct itself from here on in?
I do know that while the Manson trial was going on, Nixon gave one of his firebrand law-and-order speeches, in which he declared Manson to be guilty. Manson then managed to get ahold of a newspaper with the headline MANSON GUILTY NIXON DECLARES, which he proceeded to flash at the jury. Each juror had to be interviewed privately to determine whether or not he had been unduly influenced by the headline. |
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On the other hand
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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| Not the best of moves by Iraq's president. I was equally disturbed by the announcement. That Saddam is a mass murderer is pretty much beyond doubt, but at a time when the government is trying to win over Sunnis I would have thought it unwise to make such comments about a man thousands of them still worship. Tactless. |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:53 am Post subject: |
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hang him from the nearest lamp post, witnessed by the mothers and widows of his victims. It'll help a country have closure and move forward.
Caeucescu gave a good final performance for example, as well as a few others. |
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Emu Bitter
Joined: 27 May 2004
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:29 am Post subject: |
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| Hang the cunt. |
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