Question about Saddam's trial

[FreedomAngel82]

I just heard this on Malloy's show and was wondering if anybody knew about this. Apparently, according to this caller, when we do trial Saddam it will be in the international courts and we won't be able to use our court system's like they did with the guy on the Pentagon papers (Ramsey Clarke who was apart of the Johnson administration). Malloy question's whether or not he still has the energy to mount the defense against the sob's. For Clarke to defend him against the charges brought against him it will cause Clarke (or is it Clark?) to draw on a strength if he still has it. Malloy says he doesn't think Saddam will never be tried by an Iraqi court and if he is tried it will either be a) a US military court or b) brought back to this country and tried. Too much will come out from deposition's and documentation's taken and discovery that Ramsey Clarke will use to defend him. Malloy is saying even if the person is guilty they still deserve a strong defense (and we all know in the case of WMD's, which is why he was taken out, he was innocent). According to Malloy in the US military court the rules are different. My opinion is he will never be tried. Why? They haven't yet obviously and he's still locked up. We and they know he didn't have any weapons of mass destruction and it was all lies. I'm wondering if we never get to trial Hussein during a Bush administration is it possible, if we win in 2008, to trial him and still prision Bush for false accusation's, all his war crimes etc?

[applegrove]

1. You don't think that gassing the Kurds was him? Isn't that enough?

Me - I hope that they put him on trial in Iraq. I think the Iraqis would not had that sucker over to the USA. I think they want it all out.

And there will be so much. The guy was a monster even while he was pals with Rumsfield, Cheney, Bush Sr, Reagan, et all.

[Psephos]

2. That's a very Amerocentric view

Saddam and his trial are properly the business of the Iraqis. They will take care of him, I have no doubt, when they feel the timing is to their best advantage.

Forget about WMD; for Saddam's trial, they are irrelevant. There's a whole country full of people wanting a little payback for his brutality.

[FreedomAngel82]

3. I think it would be appropriate

since they know him better than anybody does. Hell they lived under him so why not? It would only be right. If the US does his trial(s) would they talk about just the wmd's or all this other stuff? I would rather the Iraqi's do it since I wouldn't trust if our people do it. They could've been appointed by Bush just like with the 9/11 Comission report group.

[Psephos]

5. I'm with you, I wouldn't trust a US trial

He's an Iraqi and should be judged by Iraqis.

Peace.

[kentuck]

4. Maybe that is why Saddam is writing his memoirs??

To try and find a way to get the information out ....?

[Disturbed]

6. gassing the Kurds?

It has not been proven who gassed the Kurds.

The trial of Saddam under fair conditions would not be the slam dunk that most think it would be.

[geek tragedy]

7. Iraqis should sit in judgment of him.

And, if they choose to string him up, so be it. It's their right.