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To: skinowski who wrote (183389)	3/12/2006 3:53:41 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 281500

<He will be remembered forever as he was shredding his accusers. And, by dying in such a neat and timely manner - whether assisted or not - he cast a cloud of doubt over his jailers, for eternity. Very impressive, really....> The "poisoning" might have been strategic. Maybe his lawyer slipped him some poison so he could be "murdered" by his prosecutors or unknown agents. He was so ill anyway that maybe he thought his days were numbered, the prosecution would just declare him guilty anyway, so he might as well beat them to the punch and taint them forever. Or, maybe he was plain murdered by vengeful people, who wanted him dead. There must have been a LOT of them. The trial was absurd and obviously a profit-making scam for the lawyers and judges. A trial could have been conducted in a week, as with any other person in garden-variety prosecutions around the world. They could have picked an obviously egregious example and been done with it. They didn't need to find every last crime. One would be bad enough. It doesn't take 4 years to pick over the bones of a few minutes of judgment he might or might not have made in a particular decision on whether to commit some crime or not. Anyway, such "crimes" as Saddam and he and King George II or Tony Blair commit are much the same. Political use of military power to kill those who oppose their power. It's as old as the hills. The USA nuked hundreds of thousands of women and children in Hiroshima to defeat those who opposed them. Britain leveled cities full of people. Saddam gassed one village once and people go hysterical. He was doing the same as the others - fighting for power and obliterating anyone and any town who got in his way or dared to oppose him. The problem is the dog eat dog rules and the lack of a decent constitution for a United Nations worthy of the name. We should expect more of the same. Iran is lining up. China too over Taiwan. Mqurice

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