Originally posted by aldo_14
I'm slightly worried about what happens now...... odds are Saddam will be put on trial in an Iraq court. Odds are, he'll be guilty (certainty). Odds are, he'll be executed.
For the average Arab, will this not look like a kangeroo court being controlled by the US to remove an opponent? Granted, there's not much doubt amongst sane people that Saddam doesn't deserve it - but it still looks dodgy.
There has to be an independent, UN trial. Not just for the sake of fairness, but for the sake of preventing a martyrdom. [/b]
No decision on what kind of trial ol' Madass will be facing. The UN doesn't want to try him if there's any chance he'll get the death penalty through a UN trial.
I also heard that the Hague isn't ready to try him, as there are concerns that he'd try to disrupt his own trial like Milosevic(sp?) is trying to do with his. (Slobodan Milosevic is the former dictator of Yugoslavia and is in the Hague for war crimes in Bosnia, for those of you who don't know. He spends more time denouncing the UN than defending himself in his war crimes trial.)
No way is he going to get tried in the USA; that would smack too much of "victor's justice" and would be resented as a kangaroo court all over the world, even among our allies.
In any case, he's not going to trial anytime soon; he's more valuable as an informant on his cronies. Even if Saddam lies through his teeth during his interrogation, he can still give away valuable information.
The poor schmuck didn't even have the balls to kill himself when he was captured. Was that pistol he had in that hole with him just for show?
And we got some nice pics of his humiliated, raggedy ass during his medical exam beamed all over the planet. Can't imagine that the Muslim fundies or the Saddam loyalists are feeling too good about now...
