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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (3401)	1/23/2003 4:50:54 PM
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March 13, 1998 Biden Calls for Indictment of Saddam Hussein WASHINGTON -- Sen. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined his Senate colleagues in supporting a resolution calling for the establishment of an international commission and criminal tribunal to investigate and prosecute Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi officials for war crimes and genocide. The Senate passed the indictment resolution by a vote of 93-0. Biden said, “Through his genocidal campaigns against the Kurds, the brutal treatment of Kuwaiti civilians, and the repeated use of chemical weapons, Saddam Hussein has earned his place as one of history’s most cold-blooded dictators.” “It is high time that the international community stop looking the other way when he commits these blatant crimes against humanity. We have to begin compiling the evidence of his atrocities and initiate criminal proceedings to deliver the punishment that he so richly deserves.” The Resolution calls for the United Nations to set up a commission to record the criminal culpability of Saddam Hussein and to establish a criminal tribunal, similar to those created in Rwanda and Bosnia, to prosecute the charges. Biden acknowledged there are obstacles to bringing Saddam Hussein to justice in a court of law but noted that the Resolution would be an important statement of principle. “We should not underestimate the difficulty of physically delivering Saddam Hussein to a tribunal, but we cannot abandon the quest for justice. “The Kurds are not the only victims of Saddam’s atrocities. Whenever international response to his crimes is weak, Saddam is emboldened. We cannot afford to keep our outrage to the realm of rhetoric any longer,” Biden said. Since 1988, Saddam Hussein has launched numerous chemical weapons and military offensives against Kurdish settlements and has razed hundreds of “Marsh Arab” villages in southern Iraq. The offensives, marked by systematic killings and forcible relocations, have resulted in tens of thousands of civilian deaths. He has also used chemical weapons against and fired missiles at civilians in Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain.