Saddam Found Guilty And Sentenced To Death

[DemocratSinceBirth]

I endorse the verdict. It was expected. I do find it curious that a trial that took months to conduct concludes with a guilty verdict two days before the American election.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. Linky

http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=061105&cat=news&st=newsd8l6rlj00&src=ap

[Hissyspit]

2. No sham trial is just.

Saddam can burn in hell for all I care, but a kangaroo court is a kangaroo court.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. It's Hard To Have Due Process In A Lawless Land.

I don't have a good answer...

[Warren Stupidity]

11. There is an international system established

for exactly this sort of situation. Saddam should have been charged in the international courts with crimes against humanity and tried outside of Iraq. We deliberately chose not to do this and as a consequence another crime has been committed: the ludicrous trial of Saddam Hussein.

[Skidmore]

4. So, "mission accomplished," right?

This is the subtext to today's verdict.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. I Thought The Mission Was To Create A Secular And Democratic Iraq

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[Skidmore]

6. It was WMD, wasn't it? You know, mushroom clouds.

[AtomicKitten]

7. crimes in 1982

I wonder when Bush will face the music for his crimes against humanity.

[Irreverend IX]

8. I doubt many Iraqis will care.

The insurgents will carry on as usual; any Baathist sympathy they once had has probably been drowned out by Islamic revolutionary hype by now.

[Warren Stupidity]

12. No Saddam will be used as a symbol of oppression

by our occupying army. Iraq is already under a lockdown. The violence will, unbelievably, get even worse.

[Skidmore]

9. Another thought. The timing of this verdict is supposed to supplant

the question of "where's Osama?" as well. I mean, after all, Osama...Saddam...they are one and the same.

[namvet73]

10. Surprise. The event and the timing were predictable.