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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (81187)	1/7/2007 9:11:59 PM
From: Dan B.	Respond to of 81568

There is much Saddam wasn't tried for which he could have been. Kurds wished he had faced a trial for crimes against them, and he did not at all. But his death remains justice for those crimes. There are countless many who did not chant various names at his execution who would have. Suggesting that he died only for murdering Moqtada's "father (actually, his grandfather - Dan B.)" because some who cared about that were present at his execution is meaningless. He died for all his murderous deeds regardless. Your suggestion is logically untrue. It may remain good that Bush allowed Iraqi courts & government to both try and execute Saddam. Good for obvious reasons which I feel would be obvious to and proclaimed by you, had he done as you now suggest. Dan B.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (81187)	1/8/2007 8:25:15 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

You wrote: .....It was the responsibility of the US to either try Saddam in a International court....... I fully agree. BUT, the US Administration was afraid to do that for fear of the US being revealed as an accomplice in Saddam's crime of gassing the Kurds and Iranians. Ah, yes, as a dead man tells no tales, so a good Saddam is a dead Saddam! Recall that, under Reagan, the US supplied poison gas/nerve gas and chemicals for making it to Saddam. And that the US supplied, via Rumsfeld, Iraq with nerve gas bombs to kill thousands of Iranians during the tail-end of the Iraq-Iran War (1979-1988). To be sure, at the International Court, all the dirty linen would have been aired and, the trial of Saddam, like Milosevich's, would have ended up with an "inconclusive" verdict. To be sure, the US cannot afford to be shamefully exposed..................... No wonder the great haste in disposing of Saddam !!! I believe a war is shaping up in the Middle East against Iran. If Saddam remains alive, the very fact that he is still alive could somehow inspire Iraqi resistance against the Occupying Power thereby making things doubly difficult for them. .