Saddam pleads not guilty (1 Viewer)

[spuded]

and also i dont think you have to look as far as hitler or the nuremburg trials to study how 'evil' (strange word to use) people can be

 

[xsteox]

i dont see why saddam should be executed and george bush(jr. and senior) tony blair and every other western leader, who gave him chemical weapons and millitary training, juring the iran/iraq war aren't. just because american forces overthrew his gpvernment doesn't excuse their war crimes.

 

[Cormcolash]

I'm very interested in this. Thing is, they are trying Saddam based on the evidence of a massacre commited 23 years ago. Whilst it is obvious he sanctioned the massacre, it is entirely possible that the jury may be too scared to find him guilty, given that most of the court is actually too scared to appear on TV. The reason they are trying Saddam on this evidence is because they believe it is the easiest crime to link, him to, but linking someone to something that happened 23 years ago is never going to be that easy. If he gets off on this, they will have to fall back to other crimes which will be even harder to prove, and lets not forget Saddam has extremely good law training himself too. So what I like to ask is, what happens if Saddam is not convicted on the main crime, and is subsequently not convicted on the other crimes too? What do they do with him then, let him go free?
Although it would be blatantly bullshit, Saddam getting off on these charges would be an amazingly interesting thing to see just to see what the Americans and the new Iraqi administration would do.

 

[mackle]

Sure he could be innocent really for all ye know!

I dont think he will get off on it to be honest. It'll not be let happen. Theres no way in hell America will let him be a free man!

 

[xsteox]

So what I like to ask is, what happens if Saddam is not convicted on the main crime, and is subsequently not convicted on the other crimes too? What do they do with him then, let him go free?
Although it would be blatantly bullshit, Saddam getting off on these charges would be an amazingly interesting thing to see just to see what the Americans and the new Iraqi administration would do.

if he's not convicted, the americans will have him assasinated. he's basically a dead man walking, regardless of the trial.

 

[spuded]

if he's not convicted, the americans will have him assasinated. he's basically a dead man walking, regardless of the trial.

yep dead man walking for sure

 

[oh shit]

who cares? he's a fucking scumbag. whatever happens to him wont make a lick of difference to the plight of the world. face it.
if anyone is expecting anything other than hypocrisy from the american puppet courts and administrations then they need their heads examined. and if you fixate on this and get worked up about it then you're just buying into the idea that any of it matters.
justice served to a former oppressor by the new oppressor is not satisfactory justice.
bullshit upon bullshit. says i

 

[La La]

just saw this in the news:

one of the defence lawyers has been kidnapped or something, here's the link.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051021/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

what ever happened to the good old days of trying hate figures in the Hague?

 

[Seelan]

maybe could use him to conduct lab experiments?

 

[La La]

maybe could use him to conduct lab experiments?

how very Mengele of you.....

 

[Jerry Twig]

Whilst it is obvious he sanctioned the massacre, it is entirely possible that the jury may be too scared to find him guilty, given that most of the court is actually too scared to appear on TV. .

I haven't looked clsoely at the formation of the Court, but given that it is a hybrid court, comprising an amalgam of domestic and international law in the same manner as the Sierra Leone Special Court, it is highly unlikely that there is a jury. I could be wrong, but I don't think so.