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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (115135)	9/18/2003 7:01:49 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

There is no common sense in comparing "the "most wanted" deck of cards" to the Nuremburg trials. Uh Noel... excuse me.. Before Nuremburg, the Allies set out to capture the top-ranking leaders of Nazi Germany, JUST LIKE we've set out to capture the top-ranking leaders of Iraq. If someone had thought of putting Nazi leaders on a deck of cards, I'm sure they would have done so... These individuals are the ones most likely to face trial in Iraq for war crimes... 1) The "most wanted" deck of cards is a cheap trick of the US government to place Saddam's government(in the eyes of indiscriminate people) as being tried and convicted. Why do so many people seem intent on conveniently forgetting that Saddam was "tried and convicted" in 1991, the minute his forces were evicted from Kuwait, and he agreed to a cease fire. Had he NOT agreed to that cease-fire, the US was planning on going all the way to Baghdad in order to achieve his capitulation, regardless of the qualms of the rest of the coalition. Without a cease fire, the state of hostilities would have technically continued.. And with the violation of the cease fire agreement by Saddam, technically that state of hostilities resumed. They have neither been tried nor has a Nuremburg type process been set up. I believe it's already been agreed that a new Iraqi government will try them in order to obtain both, closure and legitimacy. There's little doubt that any new government being seen by the Iraqi people as having the power to try and convict the Baathists is a government with credibility. But even Nuremburg required more than a year of planning. We're only 5 months into Iraq. Hawk