Saddam sentenced to death

Saddam may well die of old age after all.

He will not be executed until after he is tried for all his acts of genocide, or at least the biggest ones, so that the Shia and Kurds all can say justice was served.

That will take years, plus there is an appeals process under the Iraqi constitution.

 

This should set up the rest of the war nicely.

 

Well played, beanpole, well played indeed.

 

Did you have a nice widdle nap, douchie? [/inside joke]

 

Think we can capture, try, sentence and execute Osama bin Laden by Monday night?

 

No. The Idiot in Chief probably hasn't thought about him for a couple of years.


And just think, if Saddam ever is executed, he can join the 3,000 or so American troops and hundreds of thousand of Iraqis already killed by the Bush administration.

 

Spnited, why do you hate America?

 

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/press.htm

He was already a war criminal.

 

Junkie, the Young Guns reference moved me.

 

Just curious...do you charge the LBJ and Kennedy administrations for killing 30,000 or so U.S. troops and hundreds of thousands Vietnamese?

 

That's not a bad question, although you'd have to throw Tricky Dick in there, then keep in mind that since the three principals are dead, you'd have no case.

Here's a question: When Bush leaves office, is he able to travel freely? That is, are there any countries that would arrest him at the airport and try him for war crimes? Do ex-presidents get a permanent diplomatic passport?

I'm not asking whether he deserves to be tried (although I think he does), but rather if it's likely he would be. Or is it moot because he'll hunker down in Crawford with a lifetime supply of cheez-doodles until he dies?

 

I certainly blame Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon.
The difference of course is that we did not invade and occupy a sovereign country for the sole purpose of overthrowing a dictator we did not like.
We might have intervened where we should not have in Vietnam but it was not an outright invasion for the sole purpose of inflicting our will on a country (Iraq) that was not --- at the time -- doing us any harm.