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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (121641)	12/16/2003 1:27:06 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<the dictators whom people like Jacques Chirac front for in polite European society> Good grief, America takes a back seat to no other nation when it comes to fronting for dictators -- we fronted for Saddam when it suited us while he killed hundreds of thousands of Iranians. We fronted for bin Laden when he was killing Russians -- we called him a "freedom fighter" until he turned his gun on us. We fronted for Pinochet while he had thousands of his own people killed. We fronted for the Shah of Iran and sold him a massive military arsenal to use against his own people.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (121641)	12/16/2003 10:24:56 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Even the Brits are opposed to a trial that might result in the death penalty being imposed. I think it would be wonderful if Saddam were to be put in a musty, drafty French prison for life, wondering what went wrong for the next 20-30 years, missing his children....a fate worth than death for a sociopathic nutball, in my view.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (121641)	12/16/2003 2:25:35 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

I have little stomach for someone who opposes the death penalty while protecting a mass murderer, and selling him arms. Neither do I, nor does any sane person. The opposition to the death penalty does not depend on how heinous the criminal's acts may have been. Simply put, the death penalty erodes respect for human life. I'm opposed to it, though I can see a better case being made for imposing it in the case of genocidal maniacs like Saddam than I do in the criminal cases in which it is imposed in the US.