Saddam Hussein's trial begins tomorrow and many believe that it will be adjourned just as quickly.
Regardless of how long it is delayed it will not be a trial but a dog and pony show in which Saddam Hussein will be given a "fair trial" which is obviously nothing more than a formality. While it is obvious that Saddam is guilty and should be punished for him many crimes against humanity it seems to me that if you are going to go through the works of pretending to give him a fair trial then you should give him just that.
Of course there is only one way to do that, have the trial somewhere other than Iraq and don't make the judges Iraqis who have been hand selected by the Bush administration which is openly for the downfall of Saddam Hussein.(not that I can blame them on that one.)
The simple fact is that the Bush Administration cannot allow that for one primary reason. By having Saddam tried by a court completely controlled by them and in a country were the only media that gets out is that which is okayed by the Bush Admin. they can make sure that Saddam doesn't say anything nasty about the U.S. You know, how we put him in power, or the fact that we supplied him with arms. Or the fact that we supplied him with chemical agents that he then used on his own people. Or the fact that during the first Gulf War we were guilty of using Chemical and Biological weapons has well (Gulf War syndrome ring a bell). We can't let these things get out now can we. I am all for frying his sick sadistic ass, but at least let the truth be heard.
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So what's the solution?
Maybe we should have had a shoot to kill on sight policy for this evil bastard?
But we're a liberal people, and we believe in the formality of due process even for people who are obviously guilty as Satan himself.
Can America do no good?
I for one oppose prolonging the U.S. presence in Iraq by one day - yet we're trapped there until we can create a stable situation.
Part of that process of creating a sustainable Iraq is dealing with the monsters who terrorized an entire nation - waged war on neighboring Iran, and invade Kuwait, and Saudia Arabia.
Circus or not it's a necessary step.
JeromeProphet
JP,
I totally agree that it is a necassary step and I also agree that we are doing the right thing in going to through the process of a fair trial.
I am not saying that I disagree that this SOB should be punished or with the way that it is being done necassaraly even, more I am poking fun at the fact that the media is discussing this as if it is unknown what is going to happen. We all know exactly what is going to happen, the bastard is going to fry.
The other thing that I was bringing up with this post is the extremly present hidden agenda of the U.S. in making sure Sadddam is kept as quite as possible, something I find slightly disturbing.
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