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To: E who wrote (212273)	1/9/2007 7:55:38 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The article you quote from states further, and I paraphrase, the Iraqis asked, "look, is it our call whether and when to execute him?" To which the reply was, as it must have been, "yes." Thinking about the Nuremberg trials reminded me of the people (and there are many) (mostly East Germans) who blame the United States for the Soviet occupation and the Iron Curtain and the dreadful suffering they endured. I suppose it's kind of a back handed compliment to attribute superhuman powers to American presidents, even such ordinary men as Truman and Bush. In Truman's case, of course, there was really nothing he could do, not really. In Bush's case, yes, of course, we could treat the Iraqi government as sock puppets, but we (by which I mean our leaders) chose not to treat them as sock puppets. It really was their call.

To: E who wrote (212273)	1/10/2007 9:41:35 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

What was the alternative, to deny the Iraqi authorities the body? How would that have played? Big Bad America imposing its high and mighty western morals on a puppet government? The US government accusing the Iraqis of barbarism -- in advance of any incident? The administration being intolerant of the Muslim religious calendar? Seems to me, by turning Saddam over to the duly recognized Iraqi authorities, the administration handled the execution the only way that made sense.