How about the Canadian that is currently suing the US because of extreme rendition. He was proven not to be a terrorist, or associated with terrorists, yet he was shipped off to another country and tortured for a few months before he was sent home to Canada. He was confused with someone else. The problem is that with out due process, we are not going to hear about many of the mistakes made.

This case has not received any publicity in the US media. This is extremely odd because the US media pounces on any newsworthy item which will embarass the current Administration. Can you post a link to a Canadian press account?

LOL, LOL, LOL! Could you change your screenname to Rush (Limbaugh)?
We all know Katie Couric fawns over our troops, b/c "she likes a man in uniform."
LOL, LOL, LOL. ;)

EDIT: Let's see if S/B's predictions get refined, lol, lol, lol.

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It's not over yet - Saddam in court for second trial

"Saddam Hussein has returned to court in Baghdad for his genocide trial, two days after he was sentenced to death in a separate trial.

The former Iraqi president and six co-defendants are charged over their role in a military campaign against the Kurds in northern Iraq in the 1980s.

More than 180,000 people are alleged to have died in the Anfal campaign."

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It's not over yet - Saddam in court for second trial

"Saddam Hussein has returned to court in Baghdad for his genocide trial, two days after he was sentenced to death in a separate trial.

The former Iraqi president and six co-defendants are charged over their role in a military campaign against the Kurds in northern Iraq in the 1980s.

More than 180,000 people are alleged to have died in the Anfal campaign."

Yes, the pitiful, chemical scarred corpses of men, women, children, pets, livestock and wildlife were only alleged deaths. After all, Chemical Ali could have had live men, women, children, pets, livestock and wildlife in makeup posed for the pictures.

The BBC has a story this evening:
"Saddam 'executed by end of year' ... "
Now, please correct me if I am wrong ...
But in any morally just and socially responsible DEMOCRACY ...
A man is innocent until proven guilty ... and the FULL due process is extinguished.
Here we have the Prime Minister of Iraq (facilitated there by the US ) declaiming that this will be the case.
Now as I have said before, I hold NO torch for this despot.
But I believe in Justice. That same Justice that put this load of barbarians into power in Iraq (led by the USA) to replace another barbarian regime that - though the US did not put them in power, actively maintained them in power until it became obsolete to US interests - should be made to adhere to the norms of what a DEMOCRATIC siciety should be about.

On a personal note I will not lose a single wink of sleep over his ultimate end. For it to be foretold in this most heinous of ways is, to my mind barbarism of the worst kind. The US should step in and stop this "television event of the year" before it begins.

What comes after Saddam's hanging will be the cross that the US and all its citizens will have to bear. Not only for themselves but for the rest of us also. For the US, by zero leadership is about to plunge the rest of us innocent people into a cauldron from which we may not emerge.

But I believe in Justice. That same Justice that put this load of barbarians into power in Iraq...

Bodley, you entirely miss that point that the population of Iraq put the current Prime Minister in power with voting percentage far high that that in either Britain or the US in our last major elections. You also seem to miss that point that the trial was an Iraqi trial, conducted by Iraquis and adjuticated by Iraqis. The only faintly judicial US presence in the trial was Ramsey Clark, doing his level best to keep the mass murderer from assuming room temperature.

If there was true justice, Saddam would not die quickly on the gallows, he would be fed slowly, feet first, into the same plastic chipper that his monstrous son used to kill prisoners.

A man is innocent until proven guilty ... and the FULL due process is extinguished.

The Iraqi court set up by their own elected members allows only one automatic appeal to a panel of nine judges. The appeal ruling may run into early next year.
If the death sentence is upheld, the execution must be carried out within 30 days.

From the link below:

Saddam Hussein has urged Iraqis to seek reconciliation, two days after being sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity.
"I call on all Iraqis, Arabs and Kurds, to forgive, reconcile and shake hands," the former president told the court in a separate trial for genocide.

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just hanging well that sucks at least burn the sob alive

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I'm gonna bet that somebody bribes the guards to smuggle him in some poison, so he can cheat the hangman.

Any takers?

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I'm gonna bet that somebody bribes the guards to smuggle him in some poison, so he can cheat the hangman.

Any takers?

OK, I'll take your bet Beethoven. Saddam won't die in the same way he killed so many in such a wretched way and he has demanded a honorable death by firing squad, so won't go by poison, I think, but will hold out for a gun. As for his call for reconciliation - he is playing the politician and trying to get Iraqis to feel sorry for him.

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Saddam Hussein has urged Iraqis to seek reconciliation, two days after being sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity.
"I call on all Iraqis, Arabs and Kurds, to forgive, reconcile and shake hands," the former president told the court in a separate trial for genocide.

This from the man who ordered the gassing of several Kurd villages. That is so bitterly hypocritical words fail me.
Beethoven, I think that he will hold out until the night before, then go for the poison.

I would kind of like to see a news release that says, "Last night, Saddam Hussein commited suicide, shooting himself 87 times in the back with an automatic weapon, pausing only twice to reload."

Saddam verdict timing 'suspect'

"Former Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind has accused the US of delaying the verdict in Saddam Hussein's trial to coincide with the mid-term polls."

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Would you not have to be dumb blind deaf Freddie to think that there was something smelly about the timing?
Not that it matters.
One tyrant down
One to go ...

Would you not have to be dumb blind deaf Freddie to think that there was something smelly about the timing?
Not that it matters.
One tyrant down
One to go ...

There are a lot more than one tyrant to go!

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Saddam verdict timing 'suspect'

"Former Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind has accused the US of delaying the verdict in Saddam Hussein's trial to coincide with the mid-term polls."

Yet it did the Republicans no good, if it was "timed" that way.

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Saddam verdict timing 'suspect'

"Former Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind has accused the US of delaying the verdict in Saddam Hussein's trial to coincide with the mid-term polls."

Yet it did the Republicans no good, if it was "timed" that way.

But there's no answer to that ... .

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Saddam has escaped for custody...

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Saddam has escaped for custody...

What?

LOL


Regards Hans

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Saddam has escaped for custody...

@ Dog - Link seems busted

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Regards Hans

Thanks Hans, the link wasn't broken but required permissons to run.
And kindly excuse the typo...from custody.

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