Saddam's trial is a 100% joke. No one seems to even care

[Erika]

He doesn't show up so the trial is adjourned. A few interviews held here and there seem to show some interest in a trial.

For the most part, there is simply no interest or passion in seeing him tried. None at all.

We are dealing with a different culture altogether. What is sad is that Iraq is more or less bored with the Saddam trial but our troops are still dying. See at www.icasualties.org

How very sad. Our troops die and no enthusiasm at all for the trial of Saddam.

There is a message here.

[Poll_Blind]

1. You know, if Boosh actually had a plan with this dumb-ass war...

...there might have been. If the war hadn't of turned out to be one giant money orgy with defense companies pitching and John Q taking it on the grille, something more noble might have been achieved.

But that's the fuckers we've got in charge now.

"We are dealing with a different culture altogether." I don't know if the Iraqis like freedom any less than Americans. I'm not sure that's what you might have been insinuating, but just in case... I think they were living under a dictator and everyone knew what the rules were and how to stay alive. Then the Americans come in, start blowing the hell out of them no matter what rules they follow. It's such a mess.

I think the only thing that could make Iraqis want to literally bust Saddam out of jail and try to put him back into power...the only thing...is what their country has turned into under George Bush.

PB

[leftstreet]

2. If Saddam stabbed a vacationing blonde 17 times on Aruba...

...it'd be 24/7 coverage.
:eyes:

[Maddy McCall]

3. You are not going to believe this, but I SWEAR it's true.

I live in Mississippi. South Mississippi. Rhinestone on the buckle of the bible belt Mississippi.

I walked into the corner quick stop a couple of days ago, where I always go to buy gas and a fountain coke. Well, there was an interracial crowd of men standing around (nothing unusual about that, either), four or five of them talking about the war in Iraq. I was fixing my Coke and acting like I was ignoring them, but I was intently listening. One guy said that the war was a mistake and we'd never get out of it. Another said, yeah, and now Bush wants to take us into Iran. Then another said--get this:

"We should have just left Saddam in power. At least he knew how to handle his people. And we wouldn't be in this debt and a war we can't get out of."

Then, the guys started talking about what a farce the trial is. They had been paying closer attention than even I had, to recent news coming out of Iraq.

Anyway, I paid for my stuff, and smiled at them, and asked them if they thought the draft was coming--and then I walked out the door...and they were back in deep discussion about Iran as I left.

Yes, even in Mississippi, people are thinking. Mostly, people here are pissed as hell that the coast has received no more help than it has, after Katrina, while all our tax money is going to Iraq to build a new infrastructure for Iraqis.

[LibDemAlways]

7. Right before the invasion I was

talking to a well-to-do repuke (a Wall St. Journal reader type repuke) who said he was convinced we needed to "take Saddam out." I told him we had nothing to fear from Saddam and that "taking him out" would only lead to chaos. I added that what we really needed was to remove the Bush Crime Family from power. I don't see the guy anymore, but I'd be willing to bet he's singing a different tune these days.

And if people still think all our tax money is going to help Iraq build a new infrastructure for Iraqis, they are naive. The Iraqi people are getting nothing except misery courtesy of Uncle Sam.
The execs at Halliburton are living well these days, however.

[MatrixEscape]

4. Nobody here REALLY cares about anything ...

in essence. This is more of a "bitch about it and get your point across in the game of oneupmanship" zone than any kind of palpable force to counter the eminent threat in a reasonable proportion that it now presents itself to us.

This is probably the place where the status quo playas' go to do rant, vent, and complain, or do a maya culpa before they run back to the lifestyle and status quo they KNOW is behind the monsters they rail against and froth at the mouth about. You know the story. I work here, it pays my salary, but let me tell you an earful about the boss, this asshole, and the other! You know, the real, and most usual, America at large. We say a lot, but boy don't we tend to live the very opposite and support, with every dollar we spend, that which we oppose.

We all know that this takes a total life-style makeover, sacrifice, determination and the thumbs up to incarceration, potential torture, and death. We see it being played out in Iraq right now. They are people like us with feelings, values, beliefs, and resolve, but they are being demonized, as we, of our kind, will soon be.

"Why don't they do what they say, say what they mean, one thing leads to ANOTHER!"

[jackbourassa]

5. We should have put him on trial at the Hague

But since Bush doesn't want to recognize international law, we end up with this farce instead.

Good going Bush.

[Disturbed]

6. The Saddam trial is a farce.

Almost everybody believes that he will get the Death Penalty no matter what sort of defense he could mount. Most Americans don't care about what happens to Saddam now. The show is over. Millions of Iraqis say they were better off with Saddam in power. Of course, millions are glad that he is no longer in power and want the US and the UK out of their country/

[leesa]

8. Bush can't have a Saddam trial for the crimes they hyped..."gassing his

own people", "thousands in mass graves", because we were involved in those crimes in a variety of ways.

We sold him the gas he used when both he and Iran used gas in their war (the people actually were gassed with Iranian gas, it was cyanide, Iraq used a different kind, but it's a moot point, they were both using gas). We supported Iraq during this war.

We caused the thousands in mass graves when we promised to help Saddam's enemies overthrow him after the war and we bailed out and let them get slaughtered...again with the armed helicopters we sold them. These are the people in the mass graves.

He isn't even being brought up on these charges because our government can't afford these things being looked into. The entire thing is a sham. He will get the death penalty for the charge he is up for, but it is not the ones we said we were invading for.