[extropy-chat] NEWS: They got him!

[Hugh Crowther]

GWB said yesterday that SH was classified as a prisoner of war, so that
status determines his legal entitlements. Which (although I'm guessing) are
zip, except for the Geneva Convention stuff?

> From: Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:14:39 -0800 (PST)
> To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] NEWS: They got him!
> 
> 
> --- 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
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