[extropy-chat] NEWS: They got him!

[Mike Lorrey]

--- xllb at rogers.com wrote:
> At what point in the process does Saddam become entitled to legal
> representation, or more specifically a mouth?  Who is likely to
> represent him?  Is he entitled to represent himself?

You will have to determine what measures the Iraqis have set up for
their special tribunal.

Now, I find it really, really, really odd that the French and Germans,
and the lefties here in the US, who whine that the US throws its weight
around and doesn't let indigenous people make their own decisions, are
now pissed that the US government wants the Iraqi people to try Saddam
in their own court system for his crimes against the Iraqi people.

What is the real issue involved? Of course, it is the death penalty,
which has been part of the Iraqi legal system for over 40 years, long
before Saddam came to power, and which he will theoretically be facing
in an Iraqi tribunal, where he will most certainly be afforded legal
protections that he never afforded any of his own victims.

I also find it odd that the goverments that are the most protectionist
of their own industries, especially with offering government contracts
only to their own industries, are now ticked off that they won't be
able to compete for American tax dollars in reconstruction contracts.

On a funnier note, apparently, when the soldiers coaxed him out of his
rat hole in Tikrit, the first thing he said with his hands in the air
was "I am willing to negotiate..." HAHAHAA, classic Saddam.....

=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
Do not label me, I am an ism of one...
Sado-Mikeyism: http://mikeysoft.zblogger.com

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