Should we be happy to see the wheels of justice moving or just fed up with lawyers?
Saddam lawyer claims convoy of 1000 legal experts ready to ride to his defence
http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/200 ... 60800.html
You know there's something horribly wrong with this.
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Krimson Klaw
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He's also got Khadaffi's daughter as a lawyer. I read this article and something hit me, you know, what if he is found innocent? Does he get his job back? Also, if he is found innocent then the new Iraqi leadership would be saying that removing him forcibly was illegal. Now that would be irony for the Bush administration.
its a really wierd situation. i'm not sure that having Hussein be arraigned without a lawyer present was really the way to portray to the world - since it was really just a glorified media event - that the seeds of democracy were taking root in Iraq.
I think advocates were even required under the Magna Carta, but i may be wrong.
I think advocates were even required under the Magna Carta, but i may be wrong.
no you're not wrong.
the whole thing is just a kangaroo court anyway. they will convict him of whatever they feel like and execute him. some people might say that he doesn't deserve a fair trial anyway, but I disagree and think everyone should get one. it's just grandstanding bullshit for the bush administration. they will have a conviction, a sentencing and a punishment before novmber.
the whole thing is just a kangaroo court anyway. they will convict him of whatever they feel like and execute him. some people might say that he doesn't deserve a fair trial anyway, but I disagree and think everyone should get one. it's just grandstanding bullshit for the bush administration. they will have a conviction, a sentencing and a punishment before novmber.
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The Bush Administration wants him dead quickly, before he can go into too much detail about how the CIA put him into power in the first place or how we green lighted his invasion of Kuwait in the first place. They don't have the balls to do it themselves, however, so they are hoping the Iraqi psuedo-government will be pissed enough to do the job for them. While Sadam has certainly done things that warrant his death (and I am in no way opposed to capitol punishment), denying him legal council and having a civilian government which was created by invaders who toppled his sovereign regime cunduct his prosecution is dubious politics at best. At worst, its the GW Corp trying to drum up political capitol with voters.
War is an option whose time has passed. Peace is the only option for the future. At present we occupy a treacherous no-man's-land between peace and war, a time of growing fear that our military might has expanded beyond our capacity to control it and our political differences widened beyond our ability to bridge them. . . .
Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
--RICHARD M. NIXON, "REAL PEACE" (1983)
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
Dwight Eisenhower
Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
--RICHARD M. NIXON, "REAL PEACE" (1983)
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
Dwight Eisenhower
i disagree. His trial will not start till the election is over, and that is the way Washington wants it.
they don't want televised testimony of Saddam Hussein talking about his 25 years of support from the United States. Saddam knows how to manipulate media, and he would certainly take advantage of the platform to try to do as much political damage to Bush as he could. Plus he has nothing to lose, he knows he is probably going to get shot in the head, so it basically comes down to him stirring shit up.
they don't want televised testimony of Saddam Hussein talking about his 25 years of support from the United States. Saddam knows how to manipulate media, and he would certainly take advantage of the platform to try to do as much political damage to Bush as he could. Plus he has nothing to lose, he knows he is probably going to get shot in the head, so it basically comes down to him stirring shit up.
Jice Virago wrote:The Bush Administration wants him dead quickly, before he can go into too much detail about how the CIA put him into power in the first place or how we green lighted his invasion of Kuwait in the first place. They don't have the balls to do it themselves, however, so they are hoping the Iraqi psuedo-government will be pissed enough to do the job for them. While Sadam has certainly done things that warrant his death (and I am in no way opposed to capitol punishment), denying him legal council and having a civilian government which was created by invaders who toppled his sovereign regime cunduct his prosecution is dubious politics at best. At worst, its the GW Corp trying to drum up political capitol with voters.
Green Lighted the invasion of Kuwait? when?
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