Saddam Hussein arrested

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by yavoon
ur venting an awful lot of disgust over something that as all reports indicate the US will do what you want.

maybe turn the frenzy level down a notch.

I was venting an "awful lot" of disgust against Sava's and GePap's suggestion.
I am glad Bush wants Saddam to get judged in Iraq. And I hope his admin wil sincerely try to avoid as much interference as possible.

[Harry Tuttle]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Clinton didn't have the luxury of a national catastrophe on the scale of 9/11 occuring so he could make a convincing case to Americans and the rest of the world to go to war in Afghanistan to get Bin Laden, nor to dupe people into thinking such a thing was somehow related to going after Saddam.

True, but he did have Bin Laden blowing up U.S. embassies overseas and attacking our ships in port. Oh yeah, and driving truck bombs into the World Trade Center garage... And on Saddam's side we had him shooting at our patrolling aircraft, killing innocents (I'll give you that one, they weren't American, so it must be OK) , funding terrorist groups in Israel, and threatening our allied countries in the Mideast.

Did Bush have it easier? Yes, but not that easy. Remember, the U.S. did it without the help of our usual Allies.

[laurentius]

Originally posted by Azazel

What did you think, that he was our hero? A dictator helped by evil USA, evil USSR and Mitterands corrupt adminstration? I dont think so.

I really like the way you didn't say "Evil France", too.

Haha, you noticed that.
Yes, evil France is not included in my leftist vocabulary

[Inverse Icarus]

(i just wanted to show off the avatar)

[Spiffor]

I've just read John McCain had an interesting suggestion: first a trial in Iraq, and then a trial in the Hague for those crimes going further than Iraq's borders.

Probably the best idea so far

[Spiffor]

Uber:
Vetlegion beat you to it

[Japher]

1) Try his a$$.
2) Convict his a$$.
3) Kill his a$$.

4) Then Nuke his remains

[laurentius]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb

Absolutely not. He should be tried by his fellow Iraqis, his "peers" and the survivors of his reign of terror where he murdered hundreds of thousands of civilians. Funny how all the people and countries who supported him in this last war and tried to keep him in power to continue mass murdering his own people all seem to be on the news pleading for him to be tried in the Hague.

The current American Administration and the Iraqis seem to see eye to eye on this. The Iraqis should try him.

They also seem to see eye to eye on a three phase trial system:
1) Try his a$$.
2) Convict his a$$.
3) Kill his a$$.

You know there is a reason why victims are not allowed to give out the sentences

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Uber:
Vetlegion beat you to it

f*ck.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by laurentius


You know there is a reason why victims are not allowed to give out the sentences

[Japher]

there is a reason why victims are not allowed to give out the sentences

Because all of his victims are dead?

[Alex]

why trial him? I mean, he is going to be convicted anyway, no matter if they will leave him rotting in a cell for the rest of his sad days, or if they will just sentence him to death, so why set up a judgement for this? a bit hypocritical, IMO.

of course, they could say that there is a "symbolism" behind SH being submitted to a court, meaning that "we, the liberators of the world and justice-doers" don't execute people without a fair trial. blah. they should fry his a$$ and spare us from all the circus.

unfortunately, the resistance will continue to fight, I think that only a small part of the guerilla were loyal to Saddam. most of them just want to get rid of the invaders.

[Dis]

now time for my pessimistic post of the day.

This is great news, but I don't think this will impact the attacks in any way. Attacks may actually increase. Many attacks are being perpetrated by foreigners entering in the country. Al Quida is responsible for much of it. As they said- they plan on making Iraq the battleground against the U.S.

[GhengisFarb™]

Originally posted by Japher


Because all of his victims are dead?

According to their own customs the victims ARE allowed retribution.

[Chemical Ollie]

This is great news, but I don't think it will change much in practice. Some Western reporters in Iraq even think it will make more people join the resistance, now when they don't have to worry about Saddam coming back if US should decide to leave.

Both Vetlegion and ÜberkruX beat me to the Saddam Claus avatar. I had even posted it when I saw theirs...

EDIT: And Dissident beat me to posting exactly the same analysis as me while I was writing it.