Hi, Guest
11-06-2006, 01:00 AM
So the scoop this morning is that Saddam Hussein was found guilty and is now sentenced to hang.
Washington Post report
And although I have no doubt that he deserves this fate, I also believe that many of the people in the middle east that the American government continues to support, do also.
So the cynic in me has to ask ... was the court proceeding a sham or do you think he got due process as we define it here. And should we consider the timing, days in front of a U.S. election, to be coincidental, or is this more political manipulation.
Do you perhaps think that had the trial been in a neutral location like the Hague the process would have been different ... even if the outcome was the same.
I for one will always question the legitimacy of the outcome simply because of the location of the trial and who was conducting it - and I say that as someone who actually believes he is guilty. IMO that's all the more reason to eliminate even the perception of impropriety.
Also ... I think that had the trial been set outside Iraq, more of Hussein's lawyers might have actually survived to at least hear the verdict.
Washington Post report
And although I have no doubt that he deserves this fate, I also believe that many of the people in the middle east that the American government continues to support, do also.
So the cynic in me has to ask ... was the court proceeding a sham or do you think he got due process as we define it here. And should we consider the timing, days in front of a U.S. election, to be coincidental, or is this more political manipulation.
Do you perhaps think that had the trial been in a neutral location like the Hague the process would have been different ... even if the outcome was the same.
I for one will always question the legitimacy of the outcome simply because of the location of the trial and who was conducting it - and I say that as someone who actually believes he is guilty. IMO that's all the more reason to eliminate even the perception of impropriety.
Also ... I think that had the trial been set outside Iraq, more of Hussein's lawyers might have actually survived to at least hear the verdict.
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